3/18/07
3/11/07
3/5/07
Book Review: "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson
I just finished reading "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson. I really enjoyed reading this book. I really don't know anything about photography, but now after reading this book, I feel like I understand so much more. I feel like I can now read other photography books and understand what they are talking about. I think this is a must read for anyone new to photography. The only negative I have about this book is that the last part about where to take your metering was not as thourough as I would have liked. I feel like if he would have made a graph or chart showing various situations and where he would take his meter reading, I would have grasped it better. I got confused with his talk about sky brothers and blue jean brother etc.
3/1/07
Book Review: "Understanding Digital Photography" by Bryan Peterson
So I totaly am not posting as many pictures as I want to. Reason being is I started reading a lot of photography books that are helping me understand what I am doing. I started one called "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson and I was enjoying it so much that I reserved more books by him at the library. One of them was this:
I decided to stop reading the exposure on for this because this one is a little more basic. If you are wanting to start with an easy read book that helps you understand what all these weird photography terms mean like aperture, ISO, shutter speed, ect. I really suggest you pick up this book. Byran Peterson really puts things on a basic level without talking down to you. He has several examples of what he is talking about by way of pictures he has taken. He explains things by likening them to things in life that almost everyone is familiar with. I have read some reviews on this book saying that Bryan Peterson wrote this before he was totally familiar with digital photography which I feel now is somewhat true. He doesn't totally understand some of the stuff and you can tell, but I really liked this book anyhow. It helped me get my understanding of digital photography to a higher level so I can start reading other books and understand what they are saying. I am going to start getting out and taking more pictures here soon to post, but for now I am reading and learning so this photoblog may be slow in the pictures you get.
I decided to stop reading the exposure on for this because this one is a little more basic. If you are wanting to start with an easy read book that helps you understand what all these weird photography terms mean like aperture, ISO, shutter speed, ect. I really suggest you pick up this book. Byran Peterson really puts things on a basic level without talking down to you. He has several examples of what he is talking about by way of pictures he has taken. He explains things by likening them to things in life that almost everyone is familiar with. I have read some reviews on this book saying that Bryan Peterson wrote this before he was totally familiar with digital photography which I feel now is somewhat true. He doesn't totally understand some of the stuff and you can tell, but I really liked this book anyhow. It helped me get my understanding of digital photography to a higher level so I can start reading other books and understand what they are saying. I am going to start getting out and taking more pictures here soon to post, but for now I am reading and learning so this photoblog may be slow in the pictures you get.
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