Improve Your Photography: How Budding Photographers Can Get Pro Results
“Improve Your Photography” has been purchased by thousands of beginning photographers across the world and has been recently updated in this second edition.
The book is packed full of quick and easy tips to encourage budding photographers to improve while learning concepts and technical information on photography. Jim explains this book this way, “This is what every photographer needs to know to take clean and stunning photos. If I would have had this book when I started, I would h
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Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure: How They Interact and Affect Each Other
With very little time and effort you can be well on your way to taking better pictures consistently.
Any serious photographer will eventually learn everything in this book. You have an opportunity to learn it quickly and easily in just a few hours. Adjusting APERTURE, SHUTTER SPEED, ISO and EXPOSURE will no longer be sources of stress, and your confidence will be greatly enhanced.
Do your eyes glaze over when people use terms like ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, and Exposure? Do
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Good Beginner book,
I found the book very useful and easy to read. There was just enough technical information in the text to be informative without being overwhelming. I did order the Kindle edition of the book and unfortunately many of the example photos were missing (some were included, but not all). So several of the examples in the book would refer to a picture that was missing. These missing picture are what lead me to rate the book a 4 star instead of 5.
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The reasons why you should buy this book,
1. the book is relatively short.
2. The book describes in human terms the terminology so you slowly can get into the scene
3. While reading the book even if you don’t own a DSLR camera, you can still learn what you like in a camera in order to better buy a camera in the future.
4. The book explains to you how to buy a camera and the lens to match
So that about 4 things I really liked about this book
, I must say that since I started reading the book I begin discovering the mistakes I make while taking a photo, and as it appears those were critical to the results of my camera.
The book was very helpful also in teaching me new techniques and I feel that now I can take a decent picture at any given scenario, and in some scenarios an awesome photo.
The book doesn’t cover photography from A to Z but it certainly cover it from A to F, the rest is more advanced books or just plain old self tutoring.
If your interested in getting into photography – I highly recommend this book.
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Ooooooh, NOW they tell me!,
As a beginner to the fancy part of photography brought to you by the letters P, A, S and M, as well as the concepts of f-stops, ISO, white balance, noise and shooting at 1/1000 of a second, I found this book to be extremely useful in explaining the basics without making me go cross-eyed with frustration.
The camera manual was helpful to a point, especially in explaining which button and dial does what, but got too complicated in explaining what happens when you push or rotate said buttons and dials, and how it affects your photograph.
Within a page or few, the light clicked on about underexposed and overexposed images, fast and slow shutter speeds, depth of field, and ISO. I am now practicing shooting in Aperture mode (A), which is a huge step up from Auto, and although I’m not quite ready for Manual mode (M), I can see it in my future.
Written in simple conversational language with practical scenarios, this guide spends a lot of time on exposure, but also incorporates everything from holding the camera properly, to shooting landscapes, sunsets, moving subjects, RAW files, portraits, night scenes, star trails and HDR. It even gives tips on buying cameras, lenses, equipment and software.
The only thing missing in this Kindle version are some of the examples and illustrations to go with the concepts covered. Also recommended is a visit to the author’s website ImprovePhotography.com where you can get daily tips with full colour examples.
Amanda Richards, November 17, 2011
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Very Clear Guide,
Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure is an excellent guide that I recommend to everyone. This guide is a course in itself. After reading the book I not only understand different techniques to create the perfect photo, I feel as though I am a master of those techniques. Gaining knowledge on ISO speed was really helpful. The information in the book is wonderful for all levels of photographers.
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Very Helpful Book!!,
Al Judge, author or photography master? I say both, I have read a couple of his other books and they are all the best of the best. This book, Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure has taught me more than the college-level photography course I took over a year ago. This book should be the textbook for those courses. I was still unclear about many aspects of photography until I found this book. Of course, I took better pictures but I wanted to know what made them better. We can always better ourselves but if we don’t know why or how, then we have limits. Al Judge takes away those limits and explains to the reader, very clearly, what kind of effect a certain technique or just a slight change would make to the final product. My pictures always seemed a bit “noisy”, but by making better sense of ISO speed, Al has taught me how to correct that problem in such a way that I could actually explain it to someone else. I think that is the best way to judge a book, not just by how you interpret the information, but how you can relay that information to someone else. You can go through and read all of the reviews you want, or you can just buy the book and start taking better pictures right away.
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Great For Beginners,
Despite this book’s rather advanced topics, it is perfect for beginners wanting to learn more. But don’t worry, advanced users will learn plenty as well.
This book is well worth every penny, and will pay for itself once you see the amazing pictures you have taken.
5/5
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