Understanding Exposure, How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera, Fourth Edition, by Bryan Peterson
– A Review
I started taking photographs 40 years
ago and while I am not a professional photographer, I did sell a few
shots and I had a month-long exhibit at one point. I didn't make the
transition to digital photography so I quit shooting for over a
decade. When I finally began shooting digital photography last year,
I decided to actually re-learn what I was doing. I took a
comprehensive photography course for the first time in my life. It
was my good fortune to get a review copy of Bryan Peterson's book
during the time I was learning about photography in the classroom
setting. Being able to read his book during that time truly enhanced
my photography education.
Bryan Peterson's conversational writing
style invites the reader to learn without struggling. This is the
fourth edition of this volume and with this edition comes all new
photographs. Peterson has also added a section on flash photography,
adding even more value to the book. Each section has suggestions for
exercises to do so you get experience with the concepts Peterson is
illuminating. Even though I was taking a photography course at the
time, I found the exercises in this book to be quite helpful in
reinforcing what I was learning through the text as well as in class.
I like this book so much that when I
was taking notes, either for writing reviews or for my own personal
education, instead of underlining or highlighting on the pages, I
actually took photographs of the passages I wanted to highlight. I
didn't want to mark up the book at all. I highly recommend this
volume for any photographer who is learning or re-learning your art, and I thank the author and publisher for
the free review copy.
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