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Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera Paperback – 7 Aug. 2010

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Amphoto's #1 bestselling title of all time, now updated to reflect the quickly changing world of digital photography. Understanding Exposure has demystified the often-complex concepts of exposure for hundreds of thousands of amateur photographers. Now refreshed with current technologies and terms, more than 25% new images and an all-new chapter, Bryan Peterson continues in "bringing exposure to the masses," teaching today's amateur photographers how to free themselves from "auto" to take the images they truly want.

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176 pages
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English
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Amphoto Books
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7 Aug. 2010
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21.67 x 1.09 x 28.14 cm
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0817439390
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978-0817439392
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Bryan Peterson is a phenomenon in how-to photography and has sold more than half a million books. A professional photographer and internationally known instructor, he is the author of Learning to See Creatively, Understanding Digital Photography, Beyond Portraiture, among others. He is also the founder of the online photography school The Perfect Picture School of Photography (www.ppsop.com).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amphoto Books; 3rd edition (7 Aug. 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0817439390
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0817439392
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.67 x 1.09 x 28.14 cm

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BRYAN PETERSON is a professional photographer, internationally known instructor, and founder of www.ppsop.com, The Perfect Picture School of Photography. He is the best-selling author of Understanding Exposure, Understanding Shutter Speed, Understanding Close-Up Photography, Learning to See Creatively Understanding Digital Photography, Beyond Portraiture and, most recently, Bryan Peterson's Understanding Photography Field Guide. His easy-to-understand writing and teaching style breaks down the complex and often confusing aspects of photography, translating them into what his students routinely describe as "aha" moments. His trademark use of colour and strong, graphic composition have garnered him many photographic awards and a strong following. He lives in Chicago.

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Allen Hamlin

Covers the basics, encourages creativity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2016

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Covers all the basics of exposure and provides helpful, if brief, explanations of concepts, illustrated by real photos (all of which include camera settings). Despite being a few years old now, this information is always valuable.

I really appreciated the author's emphasis, not just on getting correct exposure, but getting a "creatively correct exposure", providing guidance so that each photographer has the freedom and skills to obtain the desired result for any photograph.

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David H. Furnival

Essential Reading for Beginners and experienced photographers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2014

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This is a great book that is transforming how I take photographs. When I started reading, my first reaction was that I knew all of "this stuff". What I didn't know though, and what the book gave me were some really practical guiding principles to start taking better pictures immediately. The writing style is helpful and relaxed and even if you are knew to photography this book will set you up for some great pictures.

I have always disliked seeing beautiful pictures in magazines with the information on shutter speed and aperture numbers - for me, useless information as without an explanation they mean almost nothing. Bryan describes a system for arriving at these settings taking into account desired depth of field or motion capture so you know how to do it for yourself every time.

Thanks Bryan

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Mal

Fine Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2016

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This is a really good book. It is comprehensive and easy to follow and understand. After reading it I finally know what I am doing.
Before reading this book I was making good images but really didn't know how I did it or how to reproduce what I had done. Modern DSLR cameras are so confusing to use. This book makes the process simple and doable. I finally feel 'in control' of my camera.

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Marina

Good technical manual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2019

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Easy to follow. Offers myriad of useful tips about exposure. My favorite part - explanations about the ways shutter speed, aperture, and ISO are connected when making a particular shot. Would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is starting out in photography.

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R. Brennan

Ideal for complete beginners to intermediate.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2016

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I often say it's the only photography book you need to buy. I think this is the 4th copy I've bought to gift out to people.
It's filled with sets of multiple pictures of the same thing showing for a clear demonstration of how the resulting image is affected when you make small changes on the camera.
The authors tone is very approachable.

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MikeN

Fantastic book, very easy to understand as it is written in plain english!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 December 2012

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I asked around on a few discussion forums for a book to pair with my DSLR as I was finding it a little confusing to say the least! This book is written in plain easy to understand english which is very important for any novice budding photographer.

The book includes exercises which really reinforce what you've just read and help you to understand the effect that different settings have on your captured pictures. I was quite blown away by how many pages the book has and thought I'd get bored part way through. This didn't happen though as the book is easy to read with colour photographs throughout to show you some of the effects you can achieve.

Very happy with this book, and the online bonus videos are a real help too.

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Jack

Essential book for amateur and professionals alike

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2016

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This is the book you need to make the step from switching your camera from "Auto" to "Manual" - hands down the best book about photography I've bought and will definitely remain a reference for years to come. I bought this in 2011 and still find myself referring back to it about once a month or so. Author is very knowledgeable in his field and I look forward to reading more of his books about photography.

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M.F.O.

Excellent Beginner's Guide

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2011

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This is an excellent book for a beginner and really helps in understanding the basics of photography. By first explaining how your camera works and then following up with exercises and detailed examples, Bryan Peterson clarifies the important elements of exposure. I bought a DSLR to enable me to control and manipulate my photographs better and this book is giving me the confidence to use the Manual shooting mode in order to overcome some of the limitations and frustrations of automatic shooting modes. Compared with many of the books I have looked at this is also a very good price for such a mine of information.

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