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 enlarge | Author: Bryan Peterson
Publisher: Amphoto Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  455 reviews
Sales Rank: 131
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0817463003
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9780817463007
ASIN: 0817463003
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
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 Excellent Book July 2, 2008
Excellent excellent book to learn from. Some parts of it are kind of technical for newbies (like me), but after taking the book outside with me and practising with my camera and the book at my side, it began to make sense. I've learned alot from reading this book. Would definately recommend it to beginner to enthusiast level photograpers.
I Didn't Understand The First Time Around July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first bought this book as an absolute beginner to photography (I didn't know the meaning of basic exposure terms, camera and lens features etc.) I couldn't get thru the book. I kept reading about photography from the internet and other books and six months later I gave the book another try. This time I breezed thru the book and found it gave me a very practical framework for putting together all of the info on exposure I had learned in the past six months.
I know experts can find fault with the content but the value of this book is in its teaching effectiveness. The book does a five star job of teaching its main subject -ISO, aperture and shutter speed. The effectiveness does depend on your skill level. This book maybe too challenging for an absolute beginner and too basic for more advanced photographers but if your skills are somewhere in between you will probably find it very useful.
This book is a keeper. I highly recommend it. It is one of my most valuable learning resources.
Great even for experienced photograpers! June 30, 2008
I am an experienced photographer and I found this book helpful. It is written very well so that photographers of many levels can get something out of it. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in perfecting their exposure.
I understand Exposure now! June 30, 2008
My three copies are worn out! When technology exist for a book to be transplanted into memory (my brain), this will be amoung the first photography books I choose to have implanted! Thanks for writing it.
 I have to disagree with many of you June 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has got an average rating of 4.5 stars, and is supposedly a good book on exposure. For this reason I checked out one from the public library once it became available. On the same day I spent a few hours going through the book--I could do this because I am already familiar with such concepts like aperture, depth of field etc. At the end, the conclusion, a disappointing one, that I formed in my mind is that, this is just a mediocre photography book, and in certain ways it is even misleading!
The thing that I care about most, and that I am most confused with, is exposure compensation. The reason, which I learned from John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide, is that in the world around us objects are of various tonality, and your camera metering system tend to render everything as middle-toned gray. In this book, however, you won't find the term "exposure compensation" at all in the first three chapters (this book has six chapters), not even any similar or equivalent terms, leading one to believe that all you need to do is point your camera to your subject, take the metering reading, ajust aperture or shutter speed and shoot. Unfortunately, to make good photographs you have to do more. That's why I am still learning.
You might see a hint of "exposure compensation" in Chapter 4 if you are an alerted reader. Even here the discussion is very limited, in my opinion.
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