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A View from the Wilde Side, takes the reader through the picture-making-process in fine arts photography.

I have gathered relevant images from my early days of photography and through the years, to illustrate the design, composition and strategies to take better pictures.

Practical instructions on the use of the camera: the viewing system, digital functions and operation.

Apply color theories, methods of design, composition and visual perception.

Illustrations in previsualizations and motion and imagination imagery.

Explore the characteristics of light, working with glassware and reflective subject.

Learn the basic portrait studio lighting techniques.

And inside look at the art of photography and the styles from the past.

Concise guides and explanatory diagrams for black-and-white and print making.

Colorful close-up wild-life digital images from the Amazonas rainforest.