Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)

This is a good book 4 understanding exposure, very detail-oriented. But 4 me, it's a little bit too technical. If anyone wants to explore into this area of interest, it's the book 4 you.

I can't say enough about this book. Although I had a pretty good working knowledge of exposure before I read this book, I feel like I have a complete understanding now. Great images illustrate each point in the book. The chapters are well arranged & easy to read. You will not regret buying this one!

I understood what shutter speed, aperature & ISO did but I never grasped how the three worked together until I got just a few pages into this book. Just that alone was worth the money 4 me - he explained it so simply! I have read other books & articles but they only talked about what settings they used not how the settings worked together.

We recently took a trip to New York City & although I didn't take a tripod I got some great photos both day & night. Not professional quality yet but the best I have ever taken & more importantly, out of 500+ shots I only took a couple on auto mode!

Great book!

Another top quality book by Bryan Petterson.
I have now purchased his other, complimentry book "Understanding Shutter Speeds", & the quality does not stop.

Wonderful photos which compliment well written, well laid out text. Makes understanding & learning from this book very easy & enjoyable. This book is actually very hard put down!

Highly recommended. You will not be disapointed.

At first glance I was disappointed with this book because I opened it up & 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 & then read the description in the photos you can learn so much on fine tuning your photography.

I consider myself a novice photographer who, admittedly, takes more photos of the family than anything else. Nonetheless, my pictures have improved immensely under the suggestions of Bryan Peterson. I've even gotten creative & tried nature shots.

Don't underestimate this book like I suspect many have with a quick flip of the pages. It has excellent advice & is wonderful.

More than 100 vivid, graphic comparison pictures illustrate every point in this classic & can help any photographer maximize the creative impact of his or her exposure decisions. Peterson stresses the importance of metering the subject 4 a starting exposure & then explains how to use various exposure meters & different kinds of lighting. The book contains lessons on each element of the triangle & how it relates to the other two in terms of depth of field, freezing & blurring action, & shooting in low light or at night. A section on special techniques explores such options as deliberate under-and over-exposures, how to produce double exposures, bracketing, shooting the moon, & the use of filters. Understanding Exposure demonstrates that there are always creative choices about how to expose a picture - & that the decision is up to the photographer, not the camera.