Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition) (0817463003) - Prices and Reviews

Editorial Review:

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.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

A Must Have for the understanding of exposure:

Forget any other books about exposure. This is the best book that I have ever read or seen that covers how to use exposure and shutter speed so well. I recommend it even over the other books that Bryan Peterson has written. It cover the subject so well that no other book is needed. Highly recommended for any user of a camera, digital or film.

Wonderful Book For Beginners:

I last took a photography class 14 years ago. Having not owned an SLR in the interim until just recently, I had forgotten most of my knowledge. This book brought me right back to where I was then and took me even further. Definitely applicable to digital SLR photography in 2010 (though I hear a revised edition is coming out in August). Enjoyed the writing style as well. While the Sky Brothers and Mr. Green Jeans might sound cheesy, they stick in your mind and remind you of what you learned when you're out... more info

Best learning book on photography:

I've taken a lot of photography classes and bought quite a few books on photography. What striked me from the getgo on my photography endeavor was the complete reluctance by everyone to give me some examples of how to make a correct exposure with my camera. Sure they would give me a list of measurements for each light situation but this book goes the distance: takes the photo and gives you the measurements. My only wish for this book was to have included the time of the day, but I guess that would have been... more info

right to the point.:

I feel it is a solid book on topic. The photos are tremendous. The text does a very good job of covering the mix between exposure and shutter speed. It also covers the depth of field relationship to exposure. His books are all solid well written texts. I spent years and years in film with none of the gadgets in exposure that digital cameras allow for use. He reminded me of what that experience means in using exposure as a part of the art of photography.
Easy to read, and makes one look at the use of... more info

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