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Author: Michael Freeman
ISBN : B00CTRRR3K
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Clear, direct and guaranteed, Perfect Exposure looks at the way professionals work, and lays out the decisions and sequences with absolute clarity, while incorporating the latest, powerful post-processing techniques. Choosing the exposure for a photograph is both alarmingly simple, and infinitely complex. Simple, because there is ultimately only one dosage of light, controlled as it always has been, by a shutter speed, aperture and ISO setting. But arriving at the perfect exposure is also complex, because it affects everything in the image and its effect on the viewer. There are endless subtleties in the brightness, readability and mood of every part of every scene, as the myriad of exposure decisions photographers take testifies. Understanding how and why exposure works is essential, not only because it helps you to decide what is instinctively "right". Perfect Exposure enables total confidence in that decision - an invaluable skill for every single photographer.
Direct download links available for Free Download Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure: The Professional Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 22326 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Publisher: Ilex Press (April 6, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CTRRR3K
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Free Download Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure: The Professional Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs
I'd suggest this book for an advanced amateur photographer who is looking to really fine tune their exposure. It is definitely not for beginners -- there is not enough written about the basic mechanics of photography. I like the book's overall style, which often covers a concept in the two "facing" pages. I often only have enough time to read 5 or 6 pages --- and he gets his points across succinctly.
My major complaint is that the author starts off knocking "systems", like the Adams (and Archer) Zone System, and then proceeds to introduce his own system. He recognizes what he's doing, but justifies this by saying, "but many pros use this same method unconsciously" and "this method is based on experience and honed over years" (paraphrasing)
I feel a system is a system. It matters little to me who created it. I generally don't like these type of approaches.
The majority of the book describes the (12) different types of scenes, how to handle them, what to watch out for, and so on. There are plenty of good examples used to illustrate the point. If you distill his system down, it's basically a bunch of tips on how to handle tricky situations where the camera doesn't meter properly. Very useful.
The author clearly knows his subject material, and his tips throughout the book are useful.
The basic premise of the book is that you shouldn't trust your camera's meter because it can be fooled in a variety of situations. And he's right, but I've found the matrix metering of my Nikon D300 to be fantastic. My approach is to trust my meter, and compensate(using EC) when necessary. And use full manual when the situation demands it. By using RAW, you have a certain amount of exposure latitude that you can adjust later.
Freeman is one of the busiest and most versatile photographers going. He is constantly travelling the world from one assignment to the next and seems to be working simultaneously on the assignment de la semaine and on more than one book at at time: the next instructional book and probably a portfolio/thematic picture book. Either he has an outstanding team back in UK, or he is blessed with extraordinary energy. Maybe he has so much book writing time because of all the time he is in the air....
This is the most intelligent, systematic writing on photographic exposure I know of since the first two issues of Peterson's Photographic magazine in the late 1970s, when it started either as a bimonthly or a quarterly - I forget which. Those two issues carried long, detailed articles on the correct uses of reflective and incident meters in light, shade, and with gray cards. Nothing since has been as comprehensive and useful, until this book.
Freeman uses the capabilities of digital equipment as an integral part of his argument. The core of the book is his breaking the population of exposure situations into twelve categories - three groups with several types - that are easy to recognize in real shooting situations. The crux of this categorization is the histogram. He specifies what the specific characteristics are of each situation and what the most likely manipulations are that help a shooter evaluate and improve an image. I think his use of a "tonal matrix" is particularly interesting and has the potential to be useful, too, with color distribution to understand the abstract structure of an image. This section alone makes the book worth buying.
None of the other books on exposure currently in print is anywhere near so systematic.