Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated...

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	Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition) Bryan Peterson Amphoto Books, 2004 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 467 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Just Buy It

One of the most common misconceptions around is that by buying the most recent and most hitech photography gear one can come up with extra-ordinary exposures.

This book has showed me otherwise. Too often amateurs like me get caught up with the jargon that we simply avoid doing manual shots for fear of missing those magical moments thus we end up doing machine-gun shooting.

Fortunately I bought this book and re-learned the basics properly. At least now I know the fundamentals and have the confidence to experiment further.

The book is very down to earth unlike other photography books who put too much emphasis on the author's ego and style. It starts off with explaining what is what and then proceeds to the different shooting scenarios.

Even now that I've advanced a bit, I still end up going back to some specific chapter to re-read a page or two to explain why a scene is what it is.

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Inspiration in print!

Wow! I have a new Sony digital SLR reflex camera (after having about 4 regular 35 mm slr cameras still sitting around). This book was recommended by someone when I was researching on Amazon for cameras. It is so worth it! Beautiful photos, great easy to understand instructions for over-riding the auto features and getting creative with your photography, suggestions for "exercises" to practice what he is teaching....I just need more time to play with what I am learning. Very motivating!

Worth every penny

I liked this book a lot. It has a very systematic explanation of the range of creative exposures from story telling shots, to isolated subject, to freezing motion, and blurring motion. It really covers the basics.

The big learning for me is that before I take a shot now, I think which creative exposure do I want to create. And the second thing I learned how to increase my chances of getting a correct exposure.

I have read similar information elsewhere but it's the step by step that makes it really useful.

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A Must Have For New Photographers!

This book will teach you what you need to know, and fast. Great explanations of everything!

Good on basics but could be better

This book is written in a clear, user friendly style and the author sounds like a really nice person, but to tell the truth the advice he gives about exposure I learned by spending about a half hour with my friend when I was 15. And it's a lot better to learn this stuff while doing it than from a book. I guess the photos are good examples, but not any better than most people's who know the very basics of aperture, speed, ISO settings, and depth of field. What I don't understand is why the author--who is a pro--failed to mention the role of tripods in long exposure shots, so while he says that a 1 sec. exposure at let's say f16 is the same as f4 at 1/30 sec., he doesn't mention that a 1 sec exposure opens yourself to camera shakiness & blurring. There's a page on using a tripod, but nothing specific. He doesn't spend much time at all on explaining focal lengths of film vs. digital cameras, which is also important. I only mention these things because I'd hate to see someone take a bunch of photos without this knowledge and end up with unexpected consequences.

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