Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
For serious amateur photographers who already shoot perfectly focused, accurately exposed images but want to be more creative with a camera, here?s the book to consult. More than seventy techniques, both popular and less-familiar approaches, are covered in detail, including advanced exposure, bounced flash and candlelight, infrared, multiple images, soft-focus effects, unusual vantage points, zooming, and other carefully chosen ways to enhance photographs. The A-Z format make sit easy for readers to find a specific technique, and each one is explained in jargon-free language. Top Tips for each technique help readers achieve superb results, even on the first attempt.
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Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition) Reviews
As soon as other books by Petrson were published I ordered them as well. What I'm saying is, if you want to decide whether you want to be serious about photography, get the book. You will understand what the ISO thing is all about. The explanations are fully illustrated and you will finally get the difference between f/2.8 and f/32.
If you already have a dSLR but you feel you want to understand it better, get it.
OK, I love this book.
I'm not saying this is a book for everyone - even some reviews here will tell you that professionals are not particularly happy about it, but then, if you're a professional, you should understand exposure.
I have read it a few times and I still read it sometimes to learn everything.
Best photography book I've ever seen.
After having used a compact camera for a few years and doing my best to understand all these shutter speeds, apertures and ISO, I decided I bought "Understanding Exposure" and two weeks later I was able to purchase a dSLR and actually understand it.
If you want to switch from a compact camera to a dSLR, get it.
Peterson is clear, encouraging and friendly.
You will see when to use 1/500s and when to use 1/60s.
It's one of those books you read several times as you get better and better with photography. As I read it, I understood why the pictures are there and also learned how to create excellent pictures. I decided to go ahead and give it a chance. It's great for those learning and great for those trying to improve. This is an excellent book for beginners as well as advanced photographers. When I first got the book I flipped through it and I was disappointed in thinking it was mostly a picture book on how the photographer got the picture. I thought it was easy to understand and have referred back to it many times.
As a photographer, I can't think of any info that has helped me more.
This is the best book on the subject of understanding exposure for a digital camera.
The author breaks it down into a few basic components that are universally applicable.
When you're done with this book, you will have an understanding on how your light meter and digital sensor work and how to compensate for their inherent characteristics.
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I always recommended this book to people wanting to learn about digital photography.
The digital sensor reacts to light differently than film and you have to know what it wants to do in order to get the exposure you want.
If you truly understand how your camera interprets light, then the rest (composition, the moment, etc.).
This book logically builds on what the sensor wants to do and then walks you through a number of examples that you will encounter and how to handle them.
It also does not cover in detail the pros and cons of using an external meter. Bryan does not come across as a great teacher like John Shaw comes across.
Overall a good read but I don't recommend it very highly.
The book is also full of educative pictures. The book also falls short (for me personally) on the metering techniques.
This is the biggest strength of this book. There is very little space devoted for Spot, Matrix/Evaluative or Center Weighted Metering in the book and the pros and cons of each method.
Bryan has obviously written a good book explaining the fundamentals of exposure and spent more time explaining the holy trinity of photography (ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed) and how varying them impacts the photograph.
While Mr. Kelby chokes you up with examples with little or no explanation why. I only wish it contained a short general optics crash course. I read them all and I got to tell, you Mr. That would make it perfect. That's what I thought.
When you are out in the field, which one do you think will serve you better. Which one is better. Peterson teaches you how to think, Mr. Kelby's books adopted "American" approach to teaching while Mr. Peterson's style is more of a purist "European" style. Anyway this is a great book you will not regret reading.
Peterson's style trumps the Kelby's. This book is a total opposite of the highly rated Scott Kelby's Digital Photography books. It's up to you of course. Why.
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