Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera
Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera
Customer Review: Wow - exposure made easy
I bought this book after reading the reviews…and was rewarded !
I was afraid that it would be too technical but it is indeed explained in an easy to read AND understanding way (I’m not an English native speaker).
The many photographic examples make it easy to ’see’ too.
As an avid amateur I have been experimenting and it’s indeed literally a small price to pay to get nicer photo’s in the end.
Customer Review: Outdated and lightweight
The book is written it a folksy, readable style with lots of anecdotes and will be pleasant reading for non-technical people. Unfortunately once you dig beneath the exterior there’s nothing much there.
It covers the creative aspects of aperture and shutter speed, which you can find out online easily. Most explanations are better than Peterson’s. It gives you some rules of thumb for manual metering, which are mildly useful but wildly out of date for digital photography; he never mentions exposing to the right, nor even histograms. Postprocessing, which changes the way you can think about exposure, barely gets a mention except to be dismissed as too much work. His explanation of how a camera meters and what kind of situations it handles will and poorly is very good though, and the reason I gave 3 stars rather than 2 or even 1.
If you shoot film then I would rate the book a little higher; but no-one comes to photography at this stage to shoot film and this is clearly a beginners book.
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Customer Review: Makes the complicated easy!
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