Understanding Exposure, Fourth Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

It's a great book, and the triangle concept is real easey to learn & practice . Thank you Dear Mr. Peterson, although he is in heaven now. But he has left a great work for enthusiastic photographers.

I am starting with manual photography and every page of this book gives a new insight. Highly recommended for anyone who is starting with photography. Only mistake I made was buying it's Kindle edition. You won't be able to appreciate the photo examples on a black-and-white Kindle. I was forced to read this first on my smartphone (not recommended as you will have to zoom each image to appreciate it) and then on Kindle cloud reader. Need less to say that I can't/don't want to carry my laptop along with my DSLR everywhere I go for practice. Thus will highly recommend Hard copy instead of Kindle version.

If you are getting started with photography, and are searching for a good starting guide to the concepts of light, aperture, etc., then, look to make this book your companion. It has some very good explanations of the basic concepts on Exposure, Aperture, Shutter Speed, and others which you would require to focus upon when you get started. This book can help you get a good footing with those areas. May be because I am not a starter, I found this book lagging a few things, that I would have desired it contained. A good book to have otherwise, to add to your photography book collection ! Pros: 1.) The details are explained in simple language, easy for anyone to understand 2.) There are good explanations around lenses, sweet spots, different apertures and their impacts on the image, etc., which can help starters improve their images and gain confidence (I understand how much it helps when there is something which can tell you are not bad, after all !). 3.) Does not have technical details and so makes it easier for novices to use 4.) Good amount of examples provided from the author's travels and workshops on the concepts, also explaining the steps how the image was made 5.) The book is available as a paperback edition for a decent price and has colour images, unlike some others which are mostly copies with B&W images. Cons: 1.) The content could have covered some composition techniques as it would go hand-in-hand with the concepts discussed. This could have given the reader some options to try out when they learned the basices 2.) If it had some technical details, the same could have also proved handy to some more photographers, and folks who have been doing photography for some time and want to improve further. This area/details would serve as some reference 3.) The images used in some cases seem to be like those of novices, this is a let down given to the author's experience and knowledge. The images could have been better and could have also served as an inspiration for the reader to achieve 4.) The book could contain more on-field experiences or points which discussed about where folks go wrong or make mistakes. This could have helped the readers to relate better to the topics when they would be practicing and could use these inputs like a guide or understand them when they read it later.

I highly recommend this for all photographers

I have read the ebook version of this beautifully written book. It is a really good book for budding photographers who want to learn about photography. Bryan Peterson easily explains the concepts of ISO, aperture and shutter speed and how they work together to produce beautiful pictures. After reading the soft copy I couldn't help but order the hard copy as well. Five stars for this one. Go for it without thinking once

I have been photographing with a good camera since last 4 years. However, the first tip in this book put my previous portraits to shame. It's so good; I've almost read the whole book now. Plan to refer to it again and again for creativity tips. :) The "triangle of exposure" is well explained along with the chapters on Lighting and Flash. The author uses Nikon cameras and lenses. However, you can use the tips on any cameras. This was my first solid book on photography and I'm glad that I made a good start.

Yes, this book is nicely written with fine images and explanations. There are many situation explained, from where to take the meter reading to get the correct exposure. Book is written to the point, this does not wastes time. Use of flash is also explained, but it also says to buy one more book dedicated to flash photography by the same author.

Amazing book, Bryan Peterson is one of my favourite author, content and explanation is very good One suggestion: Pls use Canon camera also as it helps like me a Canon user

Starts with the basics and explains the principles of photography clearly. Some of the similes are a bit forced, but it's very useful and instructive

Produto novo, lacrado.

I purchased this book as I've always been particularly interested with low-light level photography and astrophotography. I noticed almost immediately I could take better photographs or images by bumping down an ISO level with my newly purchased Nikon D5600. I then realized I needed to learn how to use manual mode for manually choosing aperture and shutter speed for optimizing my skills, and shortly later I purchased this recently written book. PROS 1) Includes at least one really good photo, if not two or three good photos at times, depicting each photo taking scenario described. 2) Many photography taking scenarios described, targeting mainly using Manual mode, as the book's main theme is about using Manual mode instead of Program (Automatic) mode. 3) I enjoy hearing those with experience, describing their personal recommendations based on sound reasoning. (eg. Author prefers using Center-weighted light metering, as it's a technique that has yet failed and has almost always worked. I, myself, was mainly using spot metering up until this recommendation within the book, but I still have a strong preference for spot metering due to my subjects usually causing difficult positions.) 4) Author uses one or two good digital cameras (eg. Mostly Nikon D800E images with a few Nikon D3X images.), and he does thoroughly explain each scenario within generic camera terminology. CONS 1) First chapter is extremely wordy! In other words, the author tends to go significantly astray, whether intending humor or reflecting needlessly upon a scenario. I do not mind one or two astray comments (or jokes) within the introduction or first chapter, or even throughout the book, but the first chapter was extremely taxing upon my free time for reading! Halfway through the book now and thankfully the (excessive) comments were kept to the first chapter! 2) Does not describe how the digital camera performs light metering, until halfway through the book. Light metering becomes extremely critical when taking any photos or images of black or dark colored subjects, such as the book describes black cats. (I just happen to have a black cat, and was using him for photography imaging practice alongside the book! Other less knowledgeable people might have significant issues if they're unaware of this while reading the beginning half of the book.) 3) The EBook version seems to be an EPUB file format with a size of ~10MB. Clearly after seeing the file size not disclosed by either the book publisher or the referred book vendor sites, the EPUB book format's included photo images are of very low resolution! Maybe this is because I purchased the book from Google Play, but I'm presuming all the EBook formats for this book are going to contain similar image resolution for all the formats, since the publisher is referring EBook purchases directly to the Amazon, IPad, Android specific book vendors. As I stated within this review, would be nice to have a PDF format containing much higher resolution images! (Added this #3 con and purchased the EPUB version on 2017.08.07.) TIP: As with all books containing color photographs, best to buy the book instead of an EBook version. As of yet, I do not think there is an EBook or PDF version for this book, and would only buy the PDF version if the PDF version contained all the color photographs within the print copy. Else, and somewhat self explanatory, the EBook version would be useless without any of the color photographs! On the flip, a college/university level book could likely describe all the photographs within the book, if a well explained description for each photograph were provided. It's how us older folks learned long ago, when photographs were rarely used within books or were too costly to publish!

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