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Named One of Shutterbug Magazines Top Digital Imaging Books of 2008!

Capturing an image and getting the right exposure is critical and Jeff Wignall recognizes exposure as the secret for creating an image that captures a vision and shares it with the world. When you apply his techniques with patience, experimentation, and a focus on the outcome, you will begin creating images that reveal not only what you saw, but how you felt when you saw it. In fact according to Shutterbug magazine Exposure Photo Workshop “may be the best book yet written about exposure.” By learning to work with natural light as well as when to use flash you will confidently capture action, night scenes, rainbows, sunsets, and reflections like never before. With stunning images, Jeff Wignall shows you how to perfectly expose pictures in even the most challenging existing light conditions, including poor weather, using a flash, and even a section guiding you through using multiple wireless flash units. You can upload your own images to Photoworkshop.com and get feedback from other photographers.

Wignall starts by explaining the fundamentals of exposure and why it’s important. This leads into learning the basics of exposure controls. By the end of chapter 2, you will know how to control the exposure on your point-and-shoot or digital SLR camera. Chapter 3 walks readers through measuring light using just about any light meter and Chapter 4 delves into lens apertures and depth of field. The focus moves to shutter speed and subject motion. After Chapter 6, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to turn off your camera’s automatic settings and take manual control. Wignall then examines natural light exposures, discussing the intricacies of light quality, light direction, and time of day. As you approach more advanced exposure options, you’ll need the troubleshooting advice provided in Chapter 8, covering difficult situations such as metering challenges, handling contrast, and creating dramatic silhouettes. With more advanced techniques mastered, you can then approach night and low-light conditions and then examine special considerations such as the weather and natural phenomena. The book finishes strong with a comprehensive look at all things flash photography.

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This is another volume in Wiley’s Photo Workshop series and is the best of the bunch and may be the best book yet written about exposure. Nothing is more critical in capturing the image than getting the exposure right and Jeff Wignall has the photographic and writing chops to show readers how to capture perfectly exposed photographs. In these well-illustrated pages, he shows you how to deal with difficult existing light conditions, challenging weather, and even flash, including a section on using wireless multiple flash units that explains and never confuses. Each chapter ends with an assignment and you can upload your own images to a website to get input from others about how well you succeeded. It doesn’t get more interactive than that! (www.shutterbug.net)

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Capture The Scene That Captured You

Exposure can be the nemesis of professional and hobbyist photographers alike. But Jeff Wignall recognizes exposure as the secret for creating an image that captures his vision and shares it with the world. Apply his techniques with patience, experimentation, and a focus on the outcome, and you will begin creating images that reveal not only what you saw, but how you felt when you saw it.

Discover light meters and learn how to use them and when to fool them
Master the critical elements of exposure—ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and white balance
Explore the creative power of depth of field
Capture action, night scenes, rainbows, sunsets, and reflections like never before
Learn to work with natural light and when to use flash

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (March 10, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470114355
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470114353
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.9 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.22 inches

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I am a photographer and writer and the author of many photography books and I'm lucky enough to have more than a million books in print. Probably the best known of the books I've written are the Joy of Photography and the Joy of Digital Photography. There is little that I love more than to travel and take pictures and I love to teach photography through my books. My father was a photographer and so I grew up in a house filled with cameras and books filled with great photography--it probably would have been difficult to not become a photographer. I credit my grammar school teachers with teaching me how to write a clear sentence and my high school typing teacher with giving me one of the greatest skills a writer can have: fast fingers. I live in Connecticut and, in winter, often work in a basement laboratory trying to find a solution to Global Colding.

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Photo tips blog: http://www.phototipoftheday.blogspot.com

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Lloyd H.

Excellent Instruction Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2021

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Camera manuals tell you what features are available on the camera. This book tells you what they do and how to apply them to get better exposures. It is written very well and is easy to comprehend.

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Dale Osowski

Great Book, But Kindle (e-ink) Users Beware

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2010

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EDIT: just want to clarify that comments about the black and white kindle screen are somewhat less relevant now. When this was first written all Kindle devices were black and white (e-ink).

This is a great book for understanding what all those features on your camera do and how to use them to take better pictures. It does a good job of removing the fear of using anything but "auto" mode on your camera by explaining clearly how to use features like aperture priority and shutter priority to take the picture *you* want to take, not a picture the camera thinks you want. It also covers white balance, depth of field, scene modes, dark scenes, and flash photography, along with other miscellaneous topics.

There are plenty of sample photos to go along with the descriptions, and all the photos are notated with the settings that were used to take the picture. One disappointment is the relative lack of comparison photos. It would have been nice to see more side-by-side comparisons of the same photo taken with different settings to show how the setting being explained can affect the end result.

Note for Kindle users: there are lots of photos in this book and while the Kindle hardware does display the photos, they don't really show up in a way that lets you fully appreciate what is being demonstrated. The only real benefit to the photos on the Kindle is as a reference point so you can understand the context of the image descriptions. It gets worse in the sections of the book dealing with color, since the Kindle does not have a color display - images of supposedly beautiful sunsets look like nothing more than gray cloudy days on the Kindle.

However, if you can overlook that and use your imagination with the photos, the text is where the important stuff is. You really need to apply what you've learned from the text by actually taking your own photographs anyway.

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KH

Doesn't insult your intelligence, yet doesn't simplify too much

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2012

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I've done SLR photography for years now and admittedly use the "auto" setting too much despite having the knowledge base to be more creative with exposure/aperture/shutter settings. I've been wanting to make the most out of my cameras and wanted to get a good solid education with exposure without having to take a class. After much searching here on Amazon I found this book to get great reviews and I now know why. The book is written in such a way that if you have a good knowledge base it isn't insulting, yet if you are new to SLR photography it isn't written so technically that you can't get a grasp for what it's saying. That's definitely a difficult balance to reach and this book has successfully reached it. I also like that this book doesn't cater solely to the SLR user, though that's the user who will definitely gain the most knowledge. I enjoyed the book so much that I'm considering other titles in the series as well.

I recently took a trip to Niagara Falls and after reading much of the book noticed that my night photos were greatly improved versus other night photos I've taken in the past using the night photo setting on the camera. By gaining a better understanding of the delicate balance between aperture and shutter settings explained in this book, along with use of a tripod and remote, I now have some beautiful shots to add to my personal portfolio that a pre-programmed setting would never allow me to achieve.

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Les Schmader

Successful Last Resort

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2010

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I'm long past due for the review of this book, especially considering that it's responsible for my continuing interest in photography. Had I not stumbled upon Jeff Wignall's book, I would have given up for the last time.

I studied film, slr's, web sites, photography forums and the most "popular" authors, and came to the conclusion that I must be too dense to ever be more than a point and shoot snapshot guy. Then as a last resort, I noticed a review of this book that seemed to indicate that this might help.

A few days later, and 4 chapters in, I could duplicate/imitate any shot in this book with a Panasonic FZ28 with no problem. Suddenly, everything made sense. Now I know what "they" are talking about. It may well be that Wignall's approach is much better suited to the point and shoot, and easier to relate to, but it has to apply better to a dslr also. Simple, straightforward, no trips to foreign lands and exotic locations. Just go into your backyard or down the dirt road, frame the subject, adjust exposure, set white balance and shoot. Like learning to ride a bicycle for the first time. Pedal, balance and steer. He'll give you a push, you can do it.

It's hard to explain or believe the difference this book has made in my photos and my understanding of how to take them, but without a doubt, Jeff Wignall and the Exposure Photo Workshop are responsible. If you "want" to learn, you "will". I finally did.

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lymilymi

very useful for beginner level

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 18, 2011

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I got this book after owing the composition in the same series (which I thought was plain ok, not great). This one is very well written and the author writes in a direct style. I find it very useful and very well organised - in the first chapters he introduces us to the essentials ISO speed, Lens apperture, Shutter speed very quickly and then he devotes a whole chapter to each of them. The photos are inspiring in the book (some more than others) and show very well the point the author is making. A minor comment on the editing of the book is that most of the photos relevant to the text are usually on the next page and it is frustrating to try to grasp the concept (beginner level remember?) and look for the right photograph! I am still half way through it, I take it slowly and practice in between as well as doing the end-of-chapter-exercises. My photos are improving, and I finally begin to grasp the concepts. I would recommend this one to those who are starting off to want more control over their shoots and do not know where to begin. I found it useful.

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Derrick Steed

Good introduction to photographic technique in the digital world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 26, 2013

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Halfway through and not disappointed. It includes many illustrative photographs showing the results of the techniques applied. A compendium of the author's experience well received.

I. Abraham

Really helpful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 27, 2008

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This book really helped me to get my head around using a dSLR and improved my photography. It is very easy to read - I carried it around with me because I was completely hooked. There are lots of stunning photos, but the best thing is that the author gives the camera settings for each image so that you can achieve similar results.

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J. Wuttke

Nett für Anfänger, aber nicht sehr tief

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on July 9, 2009

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Als Einsteigerbuch für Leute mit keinen Vorkenntnissen mag dieses Buch geeignet sein. Wer allerdings eine tiefer gehende technische Behandlung von Prinzipien und fotografischer Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten erwartet ist hier falsch.
Wignall verwendet die ersten 6 Kapitel (etwa die Hälfte des Buches) um stark verinfacht und enorm wortreich zu erklären was Blendenstufen sind und warum Belichtungszeiten so abgestuft sind, wie sie nun einmal sind. Das ganze endet mit einer Abhandlung über typische Spezialmodi in modernen Digitalkameras, die auch aus einem beliebigen Handbuch hätte kopiert sein können.

Die zweite Hälfte des Buches behandelt dann eher was man von einem Buch über Belichtung erwartet: wie man natürlich vorhandenes Licht nutzt, Nachtfotografie und anderes. Insgesamt jedoch finde ich auch diese Kapitel eher flach, die "illustrierenden" Fotos nicht immer überzeugend und oft vermisse ich Vergleichsfotos die zeigen warum das gewählte Foto das "Beste" ist.

Insgesamt OK für totale Anfänger, aber ganz klar auf einem ganz anderen, niedrigeren Niveau als zum Beispiel Freeman's "Photographer's Eye".

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