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The first thing Sam Abell entreats his workshop students to do is imagine their photographs without a primary subject. ???I cover up the subject with my hand and ask, is there still a photograph under here????
says the celebrated National Geographic photographer, who has lived just west of Charlottesville for going on fifty years. ???The answer, almost always, is no.???
That can be a tough lesson for eager photographers, but it???s easier to swallow coming from such a calm and sympathetic teacher.
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It makes a difference, too, that Abell has always practiced what he preaches. Cover up the main subject in one of his photographs and an overriding visual integrity remains; his composition holds the subject meaningfully in place.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Abell???s approach is akin to the way a jeweler creates a setting for a gemstone before placing it into position. ???I tell my students to compose the image first???to find a setting that works???then fit the ma
