Four years ago, I bought a Canon 60d DSLR camera. I can’t believe it has been that long. I am always trying to figure out how to take amazing different kinds of photos. I mainly use it for video. Now that I have my blog I really been pushing myself to use it more to take pictures.
Lately, I have been receiving Bryan Peterson School of Photography’s newsletters. Which contains many tips and tricks on how to take amazing photos. A couple of newsletters ago I saw Bryan Peterson released the fourth edition of his book Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera.
According to his introduction in the book, all the photos have been replaced with new ones. He added two additional and invaluable subjects that have much to do with award-winning exposures: an expanded section on the ease and joy of shooting with electronic flash and shooting star trails, and a section on the use of flashlights as another tool for extremely creative in-camera exposure options.
He challenges you to stop using auto and start using the manual mode. His book contains 197 beautiful photos that are very impressive. I am very jealous of him. I know with practice I can take pictures like him. There are a lot of great information. His book revolves around what he calls the photographic triangle. The photographic triangle is an aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. These three factors, if done right, will create a well-exposed picture.
This book contains 167 pages full of his photos and paragraph after paragraph of information on how exposure works. What I feel to be the biggest problem with the book, at least for me, was there were too many words. I learn by having step-by-step directions, pictures and/or graphs. There isn’t any. It is just a bunch of facts. All of the photos were taken on a Nikon camera, which can make it a little more confusing.
Understanding Exposure is a really good book, but if you a beginner I wouldn’t go this book first. I would start on making sure you really know your camera. You can do this by turning to YouTube. Once you know camera very well then go and purchase his book.
“I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.”
About the Author:
BRYAN PETERSON is a professional photographer, an internationally known instructor, and the best-selling author of Understanding Exposure, Understanding Shutter Speed, Learning to See Creatively, Understanding Digital Photography, and Beyond Portraiture. In addition, he is the founder of the online photography school The Perfect Picture School of Photography. He lives in Chicago.
For more information about his book on Penguin Random House.
You can see more of Bryan Peterson’s portfolio on his website.
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