I ordered this book after a couple of years of being a serious amateur photographer. I can say that many of the lessons regarding exposure that I have learned the hard way over the last couple of years would've come much easier if I had read this book back then.
To the book review -- The book focuses on three concepts and their inter-relationship of the concepts to come together and form an exposure:
1) Aperture
2) Shutter Speed
3) ISO
The author is clearly extremely knowledgeable and has mastery of photography to where he can explain all of these concepts in very easy to understand terms. The book also has a very sincere and down to earth "feel" to it. It's almost like I can hear the author is sitting next to me and explaining the concepts.
The book also helps the reader understand what he calls the "creatively correct" exposure. That is to say, the right combination of ISO, Shutter and Aperture to get the "best" picture.
There are tons of full color examples in the book that illustrate what the author is trying to convey complete with shutter speeds, aperture, lens, film type etc --- very helpful.
Back to me for a bit and how the book helped me after 2 years...In the last few years, I've progressed from using shooting in full automatic to shooting in Aperture Priority and in Shutter Priority. That is to say, semi-manual as I like to call it and I thought that's all I needed. Through it all, I stayed away from full manual mode.
After reading this book, I'm shooting most of my shots in full Manual mode and am considering getting a light meter. It wasn't so much that I didn't know, its that the book reinforced the concepts I've learned along the way to where I've made the leap to full Manual mode.
I still use full auto, aperture priority, and shutter priority but I find myself in full manual more of the time. So even after a few years of shooting -- (1 hour total shooting time by the author's measure), this book was still helpful to me......but I would've gotten here two years sooner if I had read this book back then. Mind you, I have no formal training in photography. I just got into it several years ago for a variety of reasons including avoiding royalty fees for pictures I needed for business presentations.
I must say I didn't read the book cover to cover but used it as a reference -- skipping around until I had gotten it all.
This is what I recommend:
1) If you're a novice photographer and want to learn how to shoot good exposures, this book will help.
2) If you're a semi serious amateur and haven't made the leap to full manual, this book will help you make the leap.
3) If you already know all of this but don't shoot very often, get this book and use it as a reference.
It's the easiest to understand book on exposure I have read to date mainly because it has enough full color examples combined with solid writing to help you learn.
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