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The author of some early eBooks from Craft & Vision returns to the “crime scene”: David duChemin publishes A Deeper Frame - Creating Deeper Photographs & More Engaging Experiences. How to make photos that people read…

If you measure the interest of a book by the number of pages it has, then please go other way: this is one of the smallest eBooks on the Craft & Vision collection: 21 pages.

If, on the contrary, you believe that the number of pages does not have to be a sign of quality of information, then please step in and give this eBook a chance. I bet you’ll be surprised and, 21 pages later, ready to go out and try to rediscover your world from a different point of view.

I guess a lot of books can make you do that, but I believe David duChemin has, one could say, the “magic touch” to make you renew the way you look at photography. Written while the author recovers from what could have been a fatal fall while shooting in Pisa, Italy, A Deeper Frame goes further on the concepts presented on his first books from the Craft & Vision collection: Ten and Ten More.

A Deeper Frame can be read on its own but reading the previous books might help you to grasp some concepts better. But even if you start with it, I am quite sure you’ll feel curious enough to get the other eBooks from David duChemin, and explore further (deeper) his concepts, suggestions and exercises. They’ll make it easier for you to understand the whole idea of vision-driven photography, a concept the photographer is always mentioning in his writings.

 David duChemin goes off the beaten path on a search for depth in photography.  But before you get the wrong idea, he claims that “It’s not con­ceptual depth I’m referring to but spatial depth”, pho­tographs with an increased feeling of third-dimensionality. He does it through the use of light, perspective, focus, optics, colour and even emotions, explaining on the eBook his own experiences and concepts.

 Depth is not the goal, though. David duChemin believes “the goal is expression. The goal is the experience of the reader”. Because, he states: “my hope in my own photography is that the photographs engage people, draw them in, make them more than viewers but readers.”

The keys to achieve the same goal are what the author shares with readers in The Deeper Frame. It’s not your regular book on photography but one that might open new avenues for exploring your own relation with the things you frame with your camera.

As David duChemin says "this eBook will help you understand principles that artists have understood for centuries, but that seldom get discussed in popular photography with more than passing mention. A Deeper Frame outlines seven ways that we can create more engaging images through the re-creation of a sense of depth in the flattened image to create photographs that feel immersive and invite a reader of that photograph to not merely look at the photograph but into or through the photograph."

For the first five days only, if you use the promotional code DEEP4 when you checkout, you can have the PDF version of A Deeper Frame for only $4 OR use the code DEEP20 to get 20% off when you buy 5 or more PDF ebooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST July 2nd, 2011.

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