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

For serious amateur photographers who already shoot perfectly focused, accurately exposed images but want to be more creative with a camera, here's the book to consult. More than seventy techniques, both popular and less-familiar approaches, are covered in detail, including advanced exposure, bounced flash and candlelight, infrared, multiple images, soft-focus effects, unusual vantage points, zooming, and other carefully chosen ways to enhance photographs. The A-Z format make sit easy for readers to find a specific technique, and each one is explained in jargon-free language. Top Tips for each technique help readers achieve superb results, even on the first attempt.

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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 24, 2008 Type: User Review Excellent guide

This book is an excellent basic guide and explains the most fundamental photography tricks in plain and understandable way. If you really would like to know all about taking professional looking photos, grab this book and study how to shoot like pro.
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 24, 2008 Type: User Review Learning about photography book

Learning about photography, this is a great first time /review of things you for got and thing you just didn't know how book.very helpful.
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 23, 2008 Type: User Review Good fundamentals

I have some experience with photography, but I needed to start again with an emphasis on the fundamentals. Peterson's book was very good for me in that regard. He has the book well organized on the important elements of exposure, digital or film....
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 21, 2008 Type: User Review Great Book

This is a great book. It's good for the beginner and a good review for the experienced.

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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 09, 2008 Type: User Review Good source of information and inspiration

I got this last year for Christmas (Christmas 2006, I mean) and I had read it twice before New Year's! When I got the book, I considered myself an "advanced amateur" photographer, but this just opened up a whole new world. I couldn't wait to get...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 07, 2008 Type: User Review Just what I needed!

This book is what i needed for me to really understand the exposure stuff.My new camera is as great as long as you know how to work all of the different settings. This book has helped me understand more on how important the exposure settings are....
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 06, 2008 Type: User Review Fantastic!

This book taught me more in the first 15 minutes of reading it than I learned from weeks of reading the same info from many different sources. It just has a way of wording things that really helped me understand how to do proper exposures. My...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 02, 2008 Type: User Review Great Book for anyone

I'm always into reviewing the things I've learned, this book does just that. It goes over all the basic that I learned years ago, yet I learned new tricks and ways of going about composing and metering better pictures. I love all the pictures...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 02, 2008 Type: User Review Understanding Exposure is very, very understandable!

This is an excellent book for newbies and seasoned photographers. The author's text is clear and concise, and the images he's chosen to illustrate his points are fabulous. My favorite example of "creative exposure" is the sequence of shots of the...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 01, 2008 Type: User Review Exposure

I've been reading photography books for over 25 years. This is the best one on exposure that I've read.
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