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Understanding exposure : how to shoot great photographs with a film or digital camera / Bryan Peterson.

By: Peterson, Bryan, 1952- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Amphoto Books, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: Revised edition.Description: 160 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0817463003 (paperback); 9780817463007 (paperback).Subject(s): Photography -- ExposureDDC classification: 771.37
Contents:
Defining Exposure -- The Photographic Triangle -- The Heart of the Triangle: the Light Meter -- Six Correct Exposures vs. One Creatively Correct One -- Seven Creative Exposure Options -- Aperture -- Aperture and Depth of Field -- Storytelling Apertures -- Singular-Theme Apertures -- "Who Cares?" Apertures -- Aperture and Macro Photography -- Aperture and Specular Highlights -- Shutter Speed -- The Importance of Shutter Speed -- The Right Shutter Speed for the Subject -- Freezing Motion -- Panning -- Implying Motion -- Implying Motion While Zooming -- Making Rain -- Light -- The Importance of Light: The Importance of Exposure -- The Best Light -- Frontlight -- Overcast Frontlight -- Sidelight -- Backlight -- Exposure Meters -- 18% Reflectance -- The Sky Brothers -- Mr. Green Jeans (The Sky Brothers' Cousin) -- Night and Low-Light Photography -- Special Techniques and Filters -- Deliberate Overexposure -- Double Exposure and Sandwiching -- Multiple Exposure -- Polarizing Filters -- Neutral-Density Filters -- Graduated Neutral-Density Filters -- Film vs. Digital -- ISO -- Color -- Pushing and Pulling.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

More than 100 vivid, graphic comparison pictures illustrate every point in this classic and can help any photographer maximize the creative impact of his or her exposure decisions. Peterson stresses the importance of metering the subject for a starting exposure and then explains how to use various exposure meters and different kinds of lighting. The book contains lessons on each element of the triangle and how it relates to the other two in terms of depth of field, freezing and blurring action, and shooting in low light or at night. A section on special techniques explores such options as deliberate under-and over-exposures, how to produce double exposures, bracketing, shooting the moon, and the use of filters. Understanding Exposure demonstrates that there are always creative choices about how to expose a picture - and that the decision is up to the photographer, not the camera.

Includes index.

Defining Exposure -- The Photographic Triangle -- The Heart of the Triangle: the Light Meter -- Six Correct Exposures vs. One Creatively Correct One -- Seven Creative Exposure Options -- Aperture -- Aperture and Depth of Field -- Storytelling Apertures -- Singular-Theme Apertures -- "Who Cares?" Apertures -- Aperture and Macro Photography -- Aperture and Specular Highlights -- Shutter Speed -- The Importance of Shutter Speed -- The Right Shutter Speed for the Subject -- Freezing Motion -- Panning -- Implying Motion -- Implying Motion While Zooming -- Making Rain -- Light -- The Importance of Light: The Importance of Exposure -- The Best Light -- Frontlight -- Overcast Frontlight -- Sidelight -- Backlight -- Exposure Meters -- 18% Reflectance -- The Sky Brothers -- Mr. Green Jeans (The Sky Brothers' Cousin) -- Night and Low-Light Photography -- Special Techniques and Filters -- Deliberate Overexposure -- Double Exposure and Sandwiching -- Multiple Exposure -- Polarizing Filters -- Neutral-Density Filters -- Graduated Neutral-Density Filters -- Film vs. Digital -- ISO -- Color -- Pushing and Pulling.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 8)
  • Defining Exposure (p. 12)
  • What is Meant by "Exposure"? (p. 14)
  • The Photographic Triangle (p. 16)
  • The Heart of the Triangle: the Light Meter (p. 22)
  • Six Correct Exposures vs. One Creatively Correct One (p. 24)
  • Seven Creative Exposure Options (p. 32)
  • Aperture (p. 34)
  • Aperture and Depth of Field (p. 36)
  • Storytelling Apertures (p. 38)
  • Singular-Theme Apertures (p. 48)
  • "Who Cares?" Apertures (p. 56)
  • Aperture and Macro Photography (p. 62)
  • Aperture and Specular Highlights (p. 68)
  • Shutter Speed (p. 70)
  • The Importance of Shutter Speed (p. 72)
  • The Right Shutter Speed for the Subject (p. 74)
  • Freezing Motion (p. 76)
  • Panning (p. 80)
  • Implying Motion (p. 84)
  • Implying Motion While Zooming (p. 88)
  • Making Rain (p. 90)
  • Light (p. 92)
  • The Importance of Light: The Importance of Exposure (p. 94)
  • The Best Light (p. 96)
  • Frontlight (p. 100)
  • Overcast Frontlight (p. 102)
  • Sidelight (p. 106)
  • Backlight (p. 110)
  • Exposure Meters (p. 114)
  • 18% Reflectance (p. 118)
  • The Sky Brothers (p. 122)
  • Mr. Green Jeans (The Sky Brothers' Cousin) (p. 126)
  • Night and Low-Light Photography (p. 128)
  • Special Techniques and Filters (p. 136)
  • Deliberate Overexposure (p. 138)
  • Double Exposure and Sandwiching (p. 140)
  • Multiple Exposure (p. 142)
  • Polarizing Filters (p. 144)
  • Neutral-Density Filters (p. 148)
  • Graduated Neutral-Density Filters (p. 150)
  • Film vs. Digital (p. 152)
  • ISO (p. 154)
  • Color (p. 156)
  • Pushing and Pulling (p. 158)
  • Index (p. 160)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Bryan Peterson is the author of the best-selling Learning to See Creatively and writes a photography column "Picture Points," for Popular Photography Magazine . His many photographic awards include the Communication Arts Photography Annual (eight times), Print Magazine's Design Annual (four times), and the New York Art Directors Gold Award. He lives in Seattle and Lyon, France.

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