Tao of Photography : Unlock your Creativity Using the Wisdom of the East

by Tom Ang

• ISBN13: 9780817460044
• ISBN10: 0817460047
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Amphoto Books

Summary

Combining ancient principles of harmony with modern camera techniques, this unusual book offers photographers new ways to produce innovative, meaningful, and memorable pictures. The author shows how to apply Tao concepts of Yin and Yang and "the Way" to photography, balancing the pros and cons of one action over another in every decision: whether to choose color or black-and-white film; fast film or film-grained; wide angle or long lens; high or low viewpoint; large or small format; light or dark exposure. Basic photographic techniques are explained in step-by-step instructions, and the book's expert technical tips include the latest information on digital photography.

Author Biography

Tom Ang, the author of Silver Pixels and The Art of Digital Photography, teaches photographic practice at the University of Westminster in England. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(9)
Balance and Awareness	9	(12)
Welcome to the Way	11	(2)
Hybrid or inbred?	13	(1)
Exposing the vision	14	(2)
Tunnel of light	16	(5)
Netting the Light	21	(16)
A little goes the furthest	22	(2)
Choosing between formats	24	(2)
When more is ... more	26	(3)
A portal to imaging words	29	(1)
The practical choices	30	(2)
The digital opposition	32	(5)
Pathways of Sensitivity	37	(20)
Pure silver and pure numbers	38	(5)
Tonal variations	43	(1)
Black and white supreme	44	(2)
Dueling partners	46	(2)
Grain and gain	48	(3)
Palatable colors	51	(3)
Scanning: hybridizing the silver	54	(3)
Expose for the Heart	57	(14)
Ruler on the light	58	(7)
Exposing black and white	65	(3)
Exposing color	68	(3)
Finding the Way	71	(22)
Creative intelligence	72	(12)
Modes of working	84	(4)
Uncertainty and Tao	88	(5)
Approaching the Way	93	(49)
Dance of light	94	(4)
Melody of the body	98	(4)
Seeing eye to eye	102	(5)
Working with hands	107	(3)
Calligraphy of the leaf	110	(4)
Water music	114	(4)
Patterns of chaos	118	(7)
Artifacts and fiction	125	(3)
Transcending space and time	128	(6)
Braving the elements	134	(8)
Bibliography	142	(1)
Index	143	(1)
Acknowledgments	144