|
| 
 enlarge | Author: Bahman Farzad
Creators: Linda Voychehovski, Ron Smith
Publisher: Confused Photographer's Guide Books.
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.58
You Save: $7.41 (37%)
New (8) Used (6) from $11.54
Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 220153
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0966081706
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.37
EAN: 9780966081701
ASIN: 0966081706
Publication Date: January 14, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 The absolute beginner March 14, 2000
10 out of 26 found this review helpful
This book can be good for 12 to 14 year old children. What this book explains in 166 pages can be explained in 2, if you have some brains. This book makes incredibily stupid comparisons to explain simple matters. Chosing a Reference Tone is explained by moving a stool from one room to another, dhah! The 18% gray card is compared with the way FedEx used to work. The author even starts with explaining what percentages are. Photografy is and will always be a quit technical thing. It's very nice of the author to try and make Photografy accessible for everyone. If you've had any proper education or technical background, please don't read this book, it's a big waste of money and there's tons of information on the net, that will teach you much more then this poor book, and it's for free.
 Very useful to a beginner November 3, 1999
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The book is actually way too elementary most of the time. But I give it four stars for one reason. The fact that it drives home one point, which was a revelation to me. "Any normally exposed simple subject, irrespective of its tone, will be exposed by your spot meter as 18% gray" If you don't get the above statement, buy the book.
 Confused I was indeed. I feel like an expert now. August 29, 1999
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Bahman, now I understand why the close-up photo's that I took of my wife's collection of small rabbit statues were not correctly exposed. I used the spotmeter, thinking it would give the correct exposure. Now I know the spotmeter gives the "normal" exposure, and you can change this into the "correct" exposure if necessary. If you want you can also change to a "desired" exposure. The way you explain it is very very simple, and it was so fun to read, that I read it in just a few Sunday afternoon hours, without putting the book down. Now I'll start the "Zone" book you wrote.
Finally a simple explanation of spotmetering for a beginner! June 17, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Bahman has finally simplified what I had thought to be a complicated process. Whenever I heard the phrase spotmetering, I always thought of Ansel Adams and thinking, "How am I supposed to know all of specifics that he mastered?" Well the specifics are easily at hand in Bahman's 166-page book. As an aspiring professional photographer, I always want to learn more. And just knowing how to get an image with a segmented or partial meter reading wasn't enough. Now I can ascend into perfect exposures by evaluating on my own. I haven't found anybody who can explain this procedure as accurately, concise and simplified as Bahman. Kudos Bahman and I can't wait for a next book. Keep up the great work!" -- Jerome A. Pollos, Seattle, Wash. May 1999
terrific!!! June 12, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
excellent and intelligent information regarding the use of the camera spotmetering function and an introduction to the zone system. TERRIFC BOOK!!! i recommend it for anyone interested in photography.
|
|
|
Copyright 2008 - RailroadBookstore.com
| |
