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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Principles of Composition in Photography about Photograhs with the genre: Arts & Photography, Individual Artists?
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conversations.value: The book teaches the principles of composinging Photograhs.
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Principles of Composition in Photography
  To Tammy my only daughter, who echoes my personality in so many ways, especially in travel. As you know I put a lot of effort into travelling to many far away places and now you too have shone so much brightness in your many travels to so many far away places. I highly regard your invitation to travel with you to the orient and other places that can be shared so personally with family as I have valued in the past. When you were small I very often used you as a model. You will always remember one special project which was an adventure in itself. I had one year to photograph you each month with a different animal: a pig, a lamb, a cat, a horse, a cow, a dog and so on. Thank you for being you.
  Picture yourself alone in a car driving down the highway. To the right is a large body of water, to the left are hills and telephone poles, in front is a car coming towards you and in back is nothing.
  You have been over the same stretch of road on numerous occasions, but this time something is different. The trip seems more relaxing and far more interesting. Let's take a second look!
  It is the first day of summer. The radio is resounding a soothing tune. The sun is beating its hot rays down onto the lake. As they hit the water, the rays seem to bounce as though dancing from wave to wave, twinkling as they step. Ducks sit calmly while the waves carry them ever so gently through the flowing water.
  The car ahead is travelling in a mirage as the heat rises from the pavement. The highway over which you have just journeyed awaits the next vehicle. What will the travellers inside see out their windows?
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conversations.value: What is two more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Gainsborough's 1748 painting entitled, "The Charterhouse," as well as the teachings of the late Rocky Gunn assisted in my understanding and use of circles in the composition of my photographs. Rocky once said, "Klaus, don't just use pyramids, also use circles within the image." The beauty about using circles within an image, even the outer dimensions of the image having a circular frame, is that it can provide a fresh impact to the viewer.
  Additionally, Gainsborough's 1770 painting entitled "The Blue Boy," has a warm muted background which is contrasted by the blue outfit worn by the young boy. It helped in my understanding and use of warm backgrounds more readily than before, and that the subject's clothing need not be indicative of the background colour. Finally, I also appreciated Gainsborough's 1751-2 oil on canvas entitled "Thomas Gainsborough, with His Wife and Elder Daughter Mary," as it shows a need to photograph our families in the way we envision our relationship with them.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: We began by making our own paper, while I believe David used paper that he had purchased from France. The steps we learned took my breath away. The chemistry, inks, oil, brushes from England, putty knives, paper, chammy, and so much more.
  We were then instructed on how to expose the paper 25%, 50%, 100%, 150%, 200%, over or under, depending on the negative contrast density. Once we have this dialed in then the matrix had to dry until the next day. The next step was to super heat the matrix and start to ink the paper. This is the most difficult part, layer after layer, and the more layers the more beautiful the images become.
  The process is quite complex, but suffice it to say that as you can imagine there is so much more to the bromoil process than is discussed here. I love the art of it, the longevity of it, the difficulty of it, and the beauty of it. It produces an image that could not be produced in any other way. The photographers of old truly were craftsmen and dedicated their lives to their craft without sufficient compensation, yet had the drive to do so.
  David W. Lewis is still teaching bromoil classes. More information may be obtained at David's web site: **www.bromoil.com**. I would highly recommend these classes if you want to stretch your own personal learning curve. Below is a photo of my very first bromoil print which I completed in 1994.
  Should you have any questions regarding this publication or other photography related questions we welcome your inquiries. Please submit your inquiries by visiting Klaus Bohn's **Photographic Art** web site below.