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

Updated Edition

Amphoto Books, 2004, Paperback

Product Description

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.

Product Details

Title: Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
Sales Rank: 176 in Books
Author: Bryan Peterson
Publisher: Amphoto Books, Revised edition, 2004-08-01, Paperback, 160 pages, ISBN: 0817463003
Package Dimensions: 10.87 x 8.19 x 0.39 inches, 1.5 pounds

Customer Reviews

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… More reviews

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.… More reviews

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. More reviews

Getting me through it: I need to get out with the book, its a little big to travel with but its worth the buy. More reviews

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"… More reviews