Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
by: Bryan Peterson
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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, heres 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.
For serious amateur photographers who already shoot perfectly focused, accurately exposed images but want to be more creative with a camera, heres 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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:

Rating:
- Easy to read and understand
It a great guide to improve your pictures. I highly recommend it. It is also full of examples you can use to practice all techniques.
Rating:
- It really depends on the user!
There are so many reviews for this book, but I will say that some of the lower ratings have points, but it is really subjective.This is great resource for photogs that have some slr,dslr experience and don't need the detailed technical descriptions.The author inspires one to get out and try his techniques which will bring you to find your own and get comfortable with manual mode.Anyone can get the correct exposure,but as Bryan points out there is the correct creative exposure and I find this ... Read More
Rating:
- Great book for beginners
Beautiful pictures, great tips & trick. I have this to accompany the Scott Kelby books Digital Photography Vol 1 & 2. I recommend all of them
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- Understanding Exposure
This is a very informative book with loads of information for beginners as well as seasoned photographers.I found it very understandable and would highly recommend it for anyone trying to make sense of exposure settings on your camera and how they work; both digital and film types.
Rating:
- Disappointing
After all the praise I'd read about this book, I bought a copy (and quickly resold it).
Nominally this is a 160 page book, but many of those pages are filled with the author's photos, and like a copy of Byte there's relatively little actual text.What text there is belies the 2004 date or the claim that it's updated:despite the occasional token reference to digital photography, this is a book about shooting film with 1980's technology, and is additionally biased toward landscapes.The ... Read More
- Easy to read and understandIt a great guide to improve your pictures. I highly recommend it. It is also full of examples you can use to practice all techniques.
- It really depends on the user!There are so many reviews for this book, but I will say that some of the lower ratings have points, but it is really subjective.This is great resource for photogs that have some slr,dslr experience and don't need the detailed technical descriptions.The author inspires one to get out and try his techniques which will bring you to find your own and get comfortable with manual mode.Anyone can get the correct exposure,but as Bryan points out there is the correct creative exposure and I find this ... Read More
- Great book for beginnersBeautiful pictures, great tips & trick. I have this to accompany the Scott Kelby books Digital Photography Vol 1 & 2. I recommend all of them
- Understanding ExposureThis is a very informative book with loads of information for beginners as well as seasoned photographers.I found it very understandable and would highly recommend it for anyone trying to make sense of exposure settings on your camera and how they work; both digital and film types.
- DisappointingAfter all the praise I'd read about this book, I bought a copy (and quickly resold it).
Nominally this is a 160 page book, but many of those pages are filled with the author's photos, and like a copy of Byte there's relatively little actual text.What text there is belies the 2004 date or the claim that it's updated:despite the occasional token reference to digital photography, this is a book about shooting film with 1980's technology, and is additionally biased toward landscapes.The ... Read More
