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

Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition) | Bryan Peterson | Simply: a must have!

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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 481 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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Excellent book

At first glance I was disappointed with this book because I opened it up and saw a bunch of pretty photos. I thought I had bought a picture book with no real value of teaching me how to take great photographs.

Since I had it I decided to read it. I have learned so much! If you read the text and then read the description in the photos you can learn so much on fine tuning your photography.

I consider myself a novice photographer who, admittedly, takes more photos of the family than anything else. Nonetheless, my pictures have improved immensely under the suggestions of Bryan Peterson. I've even gotten creative and tried nature shots.

Don't underestimate this book like I suspect many have with a quick flip of the pages. It has excellent advice and is wonderful.

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Simply: a must have!

No matter how complex and smart are today's cameras, this book should be read by anyone who wants to make creative photos.

Fantastic Book and Really Helped Me to Understand

Wow I love this book because the author just really broke the terminology down to its simplest form. I started film photography class in college and was kind of lost but after I found this book I have to say that I am really excited about photography now. My camera is a Nikon N80 and shooting photography with it is awesome. I am definitely going to purchase Mr. Peterson's other books as well. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an idea about the point and shoot concept but if you are looking to take your photographs further then this is the book for you.

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a dissenting vote

This book has gotten hundreds of glowing reviews on Amazon. Fair enough. There's lots of good information here. But I found the author's writing style distracting and annoying. Learning that an f/8 to f/11 aperture is the best choice when focal distance doesn't matter was helpful; having him refer to them three or four dozen times as "'who cares?' apertures" is not. Ditto his other signature phrases repeated (and italicized) throughout: "Brother Backlit Sky," "Brother Reflecting Sky," "Mr. Green Jeans," etc.

The over-indulgent editing doesn't stop there. He provides generally informative background and technical info for many of the photos, but the narratives are tired: "Although I was tempted to leave, I decided to be patient and was soon rewarded," "I wasted no time turning my attention to this wonderful abstract photo opportunity," "If you're like me, you welcome spring with great enthusiasm," blah blah.

And I definitely could have done without the "my beautiful wife"-in-a-pink-string-bikini two-page image and/or the wife lingerie & cleavage shot.

If you're someone who appreciates good writing in addition to good information, I think there are better choices out there for your first book on photography. Freeman's very intelligently written The Photographer's Eye (also enthusiastically reviewed on Amazon) is one to consider.

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Getting me through it