Product Description

Within the Frame is a book about finding and expressing your photographic vision, specifically where people, places, and cultures are concerned. A personal book full of real-world wisdom and incredible images, author David duChemin (of pixelatedimage.com) shows you both the how and the why of finding, chasing, and expressing your vision with a camera to your eye. Vision leads to passion, and passion is a cornerstone of great photography. With it, photographs draw the eye in and create an emotional experience. Without it, a photograph is often not worth—and can’t capture—a viewer’s attention.

Both instructional and inspirational, Within the Frame helps you on your photographic journey to make better images of the places and people you love, whether they are around the world or in your own backyard. duChemin covers how to tell stories, and the technology and tools we have at our disposal in order to tell those narratives. Most importantly, he stresses the crucial theme of vision when it comes to photographing people, places, and cultures—and he helps you cultivate and find your own vision, and then fit it within the frame.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11084 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
“If the book simply stayed right there in the realm of how-to, go-to advice, it would be a wonderful book indeed. But it crosses the line from useful to inspire because David opens up much more than his camera bag. He opens his considerable heart and mind, both of which belong to a masterful storyteller driven by an acute sympathy for the human condition, coupled with an intense curiosity and respect for both the differences and the sameness of the world.”
-Joe McNally, photographer, author of The Hot Shoe Diaries and The Moment It Clicks

"David does something here that few have ever done—he not only shows his absolutely captivating images, he shows the thought process behind those images, as well as how to start capturing the types of images we all long to take. People will be talking about this book for years to come. It’s that good!"
-Scott Kelby, photographer, author, President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals

From the Back Cover
Within the Frame is not another How To book on Photography; it’s a Why-To book.  It’s a book about the passionate photography of people, places, and cultures. It is a book about chasing your vision on a global scale and telling those stories as clearly and passionately as possible with compelling photography.

David DuChemin takes you along on his own personal journey chasing his photographic vision around the world as he stops in the following exotic destinations: Prague, Kathmandu, Vietnam, and Samoa. Images created on the journey provide illustration and inspiration. Within the Frame will help you on your own journey as a photographer, as you learn to see, and learn to find and express your vision in clearer and clearer ways. Anyone who wants to shoot images of the places and people they love, whether or not they ever go around the world to do it, will find this book to be both instructional and inspirational.

About the Author
David duChemin has been creating compelling stories with a camera in hand for over twenty years. An impassioned travel and humanitarian photographer, David has shot on five continents for assignments and projects covering places as diverse as Paris, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. David's portfolio can be found online at www.pixelatedimage.com.

Customer Reviews

An important new book...
This is a very well written and important new book which will appeal to those photographers wishing to capture better people shots on their travels. David duChemin is clearly a skilful and sensitive photographer who prefers whenever possible to take the time to engage the people he photographs rather than adopt a shoot and retreat approach.

David emphasises the importance of developing "Vision". Vision is not what you see (that results in just a record shot) but what you feel and what you want to say about the subject. The challenge is how to interpret that to produce a powerful image which moves the viewer and elicits an emotional reaction in tune with the character, the inner self, the dignity or spirit of the person being photographed.

Each image in the book is accompanied by camera data including focal length, shutter speed, aperture and ISO setting. This means that you can see for yourself how, for example, the aperture setting has affected the depth of field so if it's not quite to your liking you might in similar circumstances reduce it to get more of the picture in-focus front to back.

Within The Frame is a good read and provides thoughtful insight for those concerned with capturing better travel and street image in-camera rather than looking to major adjustments in Photoshop afterwards.

Twice as long as it needs to be
I'm afraid I'm going to have to dissent. Within The Frame doesn't seem to know who its audience is - I suspect the idea was fairly advanced, but actually it boils down to pretty basic. One lesson not learned - or taught - is that an exotic location does not make a photograph interesting, and an interesting photograph doesn't require a journey of thousands of miles. The book is repetitive and heavily padded, both textually and visually. Perhaps unsurprisingly, since it is published by a software book publisher, it goes on far too long, and it ends up being a lot geekier than I suspect the author realises.

So long as you can take the endless series of portraits of elderly asiatic rustics, it isn't a bad book, and it does have some useful tips for beginners - but it isn't anywhere near the timeless reference that the hype and viral marketing campaign would have you believe.

Inspiration at its best
Wow. Short word that describes the content of this fantastic book to the point. David DuChemin takes us on a journey into his world of photography, and what a world. This book is filled with inspiration and beautyful pictures taken all over the planet. This is one of the best books I have read and it has given me new ideas and new ways of doing things.