Good source to learn/study composition?

Anybody know a good source for me to study up on composition? TIA!

Try here Chelly.I think though that composition comes best with practice aswell as reading.

http://photoinf.com/

longsight wrote in post #9050399
Try here Chelly.I think though that composition comes best with practice aswell as reading.

http://photoinf.com/

Thanks! that's a great link!

best source of consistently great photography to look at critically is in my opinion the national geographic. Otherwise, go to the library and get as many books with famous photographers works as you can carry. play the game my mentor played with me, have someone open a book with a picture they like and let you look at it for 2-3 seconds and close the book. talk about what you saw, and why. Then look at the picture together and talk about what you didn't see and why. it will open your eyes.
IMHO, a picture that doesn't draw me in with a big hook and enough extra goodies to keep me looking longer just isn't as good as one that does. It might still be a great picture, its all in the eye and how you can attract and keep it.

I just read:
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos Michael Freeman £11.51 Amazon
A little hard going but I thought worth it and I was inspired to try some new ideas. First shoot after was all overexposed as I was so concentrating on composition!! So many things to think about!

Martin Dixon wrote in post #9053051
I just read:
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos Michael Freeman

Another BIG + for the Freeman book. Very interesting, relevant examples and concise (though a little sparse) text. Well worth it and very valuable information.

Another recommendation is Perception and Imaging: Photography - A Way of Seeing by Richard Zakia. This it a little bit more scholarly than the Freeman book, delving more into perception, how we see, how the brain interprets and makes sense of what we see, and how to use that to create better photographs.

Both of my copies are very well worn.

Rad

Also don't forget that many other visual art-forms are bound by the square or rectangular frame and two dimensional constraints as photography. Worth studying great drawings, paintings, collages etc. and find the similarities. Also there are some great articles, books etc. on composition in various forms of visual art.