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 Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition) :: 0817463003
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| 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. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
Second book of Bryan Peterson's I've read. He does an amazing job of explaining the different methods and really taking the mysticism out of exposure control. ISO, Aperture, Shutter speed, lighting, and many other topics are really explained in a clear and simple way so as to not leave any confusion.
It's funny, I noticed a huge different in my pictures after just reading the first couple of chapters.
Highly recommended.
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Author: Guest
This book is excellent. I give it 4 stars because it didn't cover ISO THAT well for my understanding. Granted, it's a lot simpler than aperture and shutter speed, but I finished not really being sure when to use which ISO. Other than that the book is a must have. Highly recommended. The quality is incredible like others have said. I'm going to try Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only by Meadhra and Lowrie next.
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Author: Guest
Great book if you are just moving up to a SLR Camara. This book easilly explains how set your exposure manually and the advantages of doing so. My pictures quality has improved by 100%, and I'm having lots of fun with my camara.
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Author: Guest
This is an easy read that provides you with the basics and shows you how to use them in a creative fashion. Peterson discusses the three aspects to exposure (ISO speed, aperture, and shutter speed). People criticized him for discussing these concepts at length. However, they are the fundamentals to "understanding exposure", nothing more!
He tells you how to use these basic concepts to obtain more creative shots. He also provides the information used to take his amazing and colorful photographs as proof of his concepts.
Initially, I incorrectly assumed Mr. Peterson did a lot of post-processing to obtain that bright color. Therefore, I gave him four stars. However, in an email conversation, he informed me the bright colors are from the film he used which saturates the color. So, I will not obtain these rich photos from my digital camera. Instead, I would have to use post-processing to obtain that color.
He covers some very useful topics at the end (filters, creative shots, multiple-exposures, etc.). I wish he would've provided more information on these topics instead of one page each.
Nevertheless, the book is a very good buy, if you take the time to READ and not merely skim through the book looking for bits of information, you will enhance your understanding of exposure. Yet, they will still not look like his. However, if you believe this is remedial information and nothing new was learned, you then should write your own book!
P.S. Plus, it looks great on your coffee table and people will think you know something about photography.
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Author: Guest
i didn't find this book THAT helpful, it's about average.
it's definitely not the type of book that if you read it, you will know everything that you need to know on exposure and aperture. which in my opinion makes it worthless to have. why do i want endless incomplete books on my shelf in order to understand this triangle.
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