Understanding Exposure, Fourth Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

by Bryan Peterson

This newly revised edition of Bryan Peterson's most popular book demystifies the complex concepts of exposure in photography, allowing readers to capture the images they want.

Genres: Photography

1 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 9, 2023

About the author

Bryan F. Peterson has been a full-time commercial photographer since 1981, shooting assignments all over the world for many of the Fortune 500 companies, including Kodak, UPS, and American Expiress. He is also a contract stock photographer for Corbis and Getty. He has been a contributing editor at Outdoor Photographer Magazine and is currently a contributing editor at Popular Photography and Imaging Magazine. Within the photographic community, he is most noted as the author/photographer of four best selling “how-to” photography books, Understanding Exposure, Understanding Shutter Speed, Learning to See Creatively and Beyond Portraits, with two new books due out in the spring of 2009, Understanding Close-up Photography and The Field Guide to Photography. He is also the founder and one of the instructors at the world’s number one on-line photography school, www.ppsop.net.

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has a lot of good tips, but it's really too wordy. It could be cut down to half the size by removing repeated information and unnecessary anecdotes. It's really dismissive of certain techniques and just doesn't cover them. It's far less an intro to photography and more expressing the personal preferences of the author

[Kirsten · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not a thorough text, nor a quick reference to keep on you at all times. However, it’s an excellent introduction to the basics of exposure, easy to understand and containing useful side-by-side shots with technical information. It also suggests some helpful exercises. I’ll be using it to supplement introductory photography lessons for my journalism students. Thank you, Bryan! This is just what I was looking for!

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Whilst I felt I understood the key technical aspects of exposure this book helped me understand the finer aspects and how to achieve what I wanted vs what the metering system thought was correct.

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book just tells you how aperture, shutter speed and ISO interact to create an exposure. I still don't understand what a good exposure is.

[Computeraccow · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome examples, awesome exercises and an awesome introduction to the basics of photography

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a good primer for a beginner photographer or someone getting back into it. Covers most of what you need to know to get started with shooting manual, and explains it all in an approachable way.