Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera
More than 100 vivid, graphic comparison pictures illustrate every point in this revised classic and can help any photographer maximize the creative impact of his or her exposure decisions. Peterson stresses the importance of metering the subject for a starting exposure, and then explains how to...
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More than 100 vivid, graphic comparison pictures illustrate every point in this revised classic and can help any photographer maximize the creative impact of his or her exposure decisions. Peterson stresses the importance of metering the subject for a starting exposure, and then explains how to use various exposure meters and different kinds of lighting. The book contains lessons on each element of the exposure-aperature, shutter speed, iso-and how it relates to the other two in terms of depth of field, freezing and blurring action, and shooting in low light or at night. A section on special techniques explores such options as deliberate under- and overexposures, how to produce double exposures, bracketing, shooting the moon, and the use of filters. Understanding Exposure demonstrates that there are always creative choices about how to expose a picture-and that the decision is up to the photographer, not the camera.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780817463007 (0817463003)
Publish date: August 1st 2004
Publisher: Amphoto Books
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Understanding Exposure is regularly touted as the bible for understanding exposure; I guess it's lucky that [a:Peterson|82078|Bryan Peterson|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1314275996p2/82078.jpg] titled the book as he did. I've had my copy for a while now – a generous Christmas or birthday present s...
I was really hoping there'd be some sort of magic that would help to make this whole F stop business make better sense to me, but I'm not finding that to be true. I suppose I'll have to give in and take an actual, physical photography class, because I am just. not. getting it.