Learning to See: Photo-reference: Problems and Solutions Contents:

Working with models

The real world and the world of fantasy

Communicating the emotion of the pose

Professional boundaries

Acting out the story

The professional director

The problems with photos

The two dimensional world

Learning to see image distortion

Learning to see distorted proportions

The flat 2d world

Learning to see human proportions

Learning to see the accordion

Big and simple measurements

Average and ideal measurements

Organic measurements

Friendly thirds

Learning to see and kill tangents

The gestural queen

The lying eye

The distortion zone

The skin suit

Photo-reference and painting

Photo-reference and the creative process

Searching for the dynamic

Tonal values in photographs

Building worlds from photo-reference

Finding Mr. T

Feeling the flow

Searching for echoes

X marks the spot

Lighting the stage

Composing reference photos

Pre-photography stage

Placing photo-reference in perspective

Mass and flow

Composing with flow

Adjusting the anatomy of the photo-reference

Creating shadows