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David Williams puts together unique image constructions he calls “detail minis.” Here is an album page using sixteen detail minis. There is crafty
design work in the assembly of the images—the photographer/designer’s goal always to keep the eye in motion and to keep the subject matter rich
and interesting. He records all of these minis with a 50mm f/1.2 lens wide open to minimize depth of field and to speed up his shooting.
DAVID ANTHONY WILLIAMS:
A MAJESTIC APPROACH
One of the elements David Anthony Williams brings to his
albums is pure life. His album pages are living, moving entities.
This design philosophy is the same as his theory
about wedding photography. “If you’ve studied and practiced
posing, observed lighting, and learned to assess an
environment, you’re halfway there. But how good are the
images going to be if your priorities are with the technical,
and not with the activity and life happening before you?”
Williams is practiced at the art of image construction.
He says, “Advertising photographers deal with them every
day. But still we come back to the essential of a people picture
that goes far beyond technique. And that is the photographer
giving life to the creation they have assembled.”
His image constructions, for example, might be of the
many faces of the bride’s emotions, with the wedding dress
as a blurry backdrop and inset photos defining her many
moods. Or he might do a montage of details—the ring,
the flowers, the fabric of her dress—and combine them
with a pensive portrait of the bride, imagining these things.
Williams also uses the technique of providing a series of
eight or sixteen identically sized images across two pages—
a window-frame effect. The pages are laid out in perfect,
brutal symmetry. However, the motion and direction
come from the elements within the pictures or the content
of the pictures.
He will also contrast this symmetry by creating a series
of vertical image constructions within the horizontal space
of the album page. Almost like raindrops, these panels de-
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