Bücher von David Duchemin

A book about the craft of camera-using and the creative struggle of picture-making.Learning how a camera works is not difficult. Once you understand how to focus and expose, the rest are details. So why is it such a challenge to make photographs that feel like they do what we hope for? Could it be we're asking the camera to do the work that all along has been ours to figure out? Is it possible we've been thinking too much about the camera and not enough about our own creativity? In an industry that obsesses over the gear and all too often ignores the deeper questions around creativity and expression, this should come as no surprise.It's true, the camera sees differently than we do. As our creative collaborator it can do things that we simply cannot. It can see much faster (1/8000 of a second) and much slower (8 seconds, or 8 minutes) than we can. It can cut the light in half, or double it. It can magnify, compress, and otherwise transform our field of view through lens and aperture choices. Learning to see as the camera does is, itself, an exercise in creative thinking and imagination.The journey of mastering this craft is not so much about bending the camera to our will, but working with the many different ways the camera is able to see the world in order to create photographs that express the way we see and feel about it. That effort is more creative than it is technical. Crucially, this journey is also about learning to give ourselves the permission to create photographs that are truly our own, to risk and experiment, and to explore and play. Too often we hold ourselves back.In Light, Space, and Time, photographer, teacher, and author David duChemin helps you learn to look in the same way as the camera does, and to think in the same language as the camera speaks. In 20 powerful essays, and featuring more than 100 beautiful photographs, David explores the place of the human behind the camera in the act of picture making, and he does so with the same inspiring heart, soul, and voice that he has brought to his previous best-selling books. Books that teach not only how to make photographs, but how to think like a photographer. Throughout the book, David encourages you to move beyond the functions of your camera to embrace the creative choices those functions make possible. This exploration provides new frameworks for thinking about your decisions, presents new ways to see and look, raises new questions about the challenges we face in being creative, and offers new answers as you carve out your own unique path forward. Most importantly, David will inspire you to head out with your camera and play with the possibilities held by every intersection of light, space, and time that eventually becomes a photograph.The result of all this? Freedom. Freedom to find new ways of wrestling with the challenges we all face when collaborating with the camera to make something that is truly our own. Freedom to embrace your fundamental creative nature, to overcome the fear of trying something new. Freedom to work as an artist more at ease with a process that's inherently messy. And freedom to make the kinds of photographs you've always wanted to create. Table of Contents 01 The Mind of the Photographer 02 Light, Space, and Time 03 Interesting Perceptions 04 Repetition, Risk, and Reward 05 Reaction and Response 06 The Visual and the Visceral 07 Art and Artifice 08 The Seduction of Subject 09 The Freedom of Flow 10 We're All Missing Something 11 The Power and Possibility of Constraint 12 Comparison and Creativity 13 Beyond the Settings 14 In Praise of Luck 15 Talent or Time? 16 Ever Forward 17 Imposters and Improvisers 18 Over the Shoulders of Giants 19 Starts and Stops 20 Find Your Magic

Was ist eigentlich ein gutes Bild? Wegweiser zu starken und authentischen Bildern Leitfaden für hilfreiche Bildkritik unter Fotografen Hilfreiche Fragen zur Analyse der eigenen Bilder Ist dieses Bild gut? Nach welchen Kriterien bewerte ich eigentlich meine eigene Arbeit? Und wie sehen das andere? Diese Fragen stellt sich wohl jeder Fotograf bei der Durchsicht seiner Bilder - und bleibt dabei oft ratlos. Bildkritik ist nicht leicht, eine kritische Analyse der eigenen Arbeiten noch schwerer. Regeln, Formeln oder Rezepte helfen nicht wirklich, um zum Kern der Frage vorzustoßen: Was genau ist ein gutes Bild? David duChemin gibt in seinem Buch auch keine Antwort auf diese Frage, liefert keine Rezepte für das »gute Bild« - er stellt Fragen. Fragen wie »Wo ist die Geschichte?«, »Wie sieht es mit Balance und Spannung aus?«, »Welche Rolle spielt das Licht?«, »Wie führen die Linien den Blick des Betrachters?«. Fragen, die dem Fotografen helfen sollen, Bilder besser zu verstehen und ihre Qualität zu erkennen. Die ihm aber auch helfen sollen, den kreativen Prozess des Fotografierens bewusster zu steuern und die Qualität seiner Arbeit zu verbessern. Doch duChemin stellt nicht nur Fragen. Er erklärt, er illustriert mit eigenen Bildern, welche Bedeutung seine Fragen haben, wohin der Weg führt, den er dem Leser mit diesem Buch weist: Zu starken und authentischen Bildern.

In der Menge der fotografischen Bilder, die uns Tag für Tag begegnen, sind es nur wenige, die uns wirklich erreichen, die wir nicht nur wahrnehmen, sondern die uns berühren, packen, faszinieren. Technisch gut fotografiert sind sie fast alle - modernes Equipment sorgt für Schärfe und korrekte Belichtung. Was also macht den Unterschied zwischen einer technisch guten Aufnahme und einer, die heraussticht aus der Menge, die wir als besonders gelungene Fotografie erkennen? David duChemin, weltbekannter Fotograf und Autor, hat die Antwort: Es ist die Seele, die Stimmung eines Bildes, die den Betrachter emotional anspricht. Ohne Seele keine Kommunikation!David duChemin zeigt in seinem Buch und illustriert mit seinen Fotografien, wie solche Fotografien entstehen, und welche Qualitäten der Fotograf für eine gelingende Fotografie entwickeln sollte. Jenseits des Handwerklichen spielen dabei Begriffe wie Konzept, Disziplin, Achtsamkeit, aber auch Empathie und Authentizität die entscheidende Rolle.Ein Buch für jeden Fotografen, der ausdrucksstarke und authentische Bilder machen möchte und dafür etwas »Coaching« braucht. Aber auch eine Inspiration, um die Liebe zur Fotografie neu zu beleben.

The creative life used to be the domain of the muses, those astonishing Greek Goddesses responsible for inspiration and creativity. If they showed up, our work in these areas would go well, ideas would flow, and creativity would abound. Lucky us. But what if they didn''t?  The Problem with Muses, one of 28 essays on the creative life from which this book gets its name, is that we could wait forever for them to appear (there were only nine of them!), and most of us have work to do. This is only one of the challenges facing anyone longing for a life of everyday creativity. The Problem with Muses is a collection of transcripts from David duChemin''s podcast, A Beautiful Anarchy, pulled together for the first time for those who prefer the written word. Candid, wise, deeply human, and speaking from a lifetime (so far) of wrestling with the muses and a creative life that has taken him from professional comedian to humanitarian photographer to best-selling author and podcaster, duChemin speaks to the prevailing, and all-too-common challenges of the creative life, including doubts and fears, imposter''s syndrome, the pursuit of authenticity, the inevitability of distractions, the urge to compare ourselves with others, feelings of directionlessness, the desire for relevance, and more. If you struggle with the creative life as much as you love it, you are not alone.  Praise for the Beautiful Anarchy podcast from which this book comes."David''s superpower is his ability to tap into the stifled, screaming recesses of our minds, those hidden places where we yearn and ache and thirst for ''something more''. His words are both sage and true, a gentle but necessary reminder, a soothing salve for the chafing of the world against our creatively-starved souls." ~ amelie__t via Apple Podcasts"I am so happy to see David''s words made even more accessible for creators of every walk of life. His words will speak to your soul and free you to embrace our humanity and move proudly towards creation" ~ Passitalong69 via Apple Podcasts"David is the philosopher poet extending his hand to you to join him in being human; in creating whatever it is you create. Although his medium is photography, his encouragment, insight, and warnings apply to every creator, that is, everyone. His style is so relatable, so real, so lacking in "direction" as in "do this, do that" and so full of "enlightenment" as in "here is where you are, whether you realize it or not, and here is the path to a better you". If you recognize that you, being human, create something every day, and if you want to be more conscious of it and more deliberate in your making, you can find no better guide than David duChemin." ~ Lance3495 via Apple Podcasts"David drills right into the hard questions and self doubts and gives strong and obtainable suggesting to move pass those road blocks in our creative lives." ~ Razorbolt via Apple Podcasts"Wow! Inspirational and dead on. David''s choice of topics is just what I needed to hear. From The Impost Syndrome to Perfectionism. Suddenly I am not alone in my creative doubts and received sound advice for getting beyond them." ~ MikeyL22 via Apple Podcasts