Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure: The Professional's Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs,   ISBN:9780240811710

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As good as Bryan Peterson's Understanding Exposure is, this book is better. More depth, better examples, more inspiring photography, a system you can live with and learn with. There's a new Exposure Sheriff in town, and Freeman is it.

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I picked up this book wanted to better my knowledge of lighting. I have a BA in photojournalism. That said, I'm not just a casual camera user or a hobbyist. Immediately after opening this book I became frustrated. Not only is the sentence structure horrible and makes the language difficult to understand, but the thought process used in writing this seems to be a bit distorted and filled with useless rambling information. Further, the terms used in the book are not commonly used. Anyone who doesn't know much about photography will be completely lost. I know about photography and am still completely lost. As another person who reviewed this book said, it's a bit like reading a science book. I would strongly advise not purchasing this book.

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Overall, this is a great book!...It starts out with the basics of proper exposure and then expands on how you can master exposure to improve your photographs. I recommend this book to all beginners and semi professional photographers

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I found this book helpful. I wish each of the pictues involved he would have actually showed the exposure. He bemoans systems and then goes on to teach you another system!

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I have told many people that Michael Freeman's "The Photographer's Eye" is the photography book I've been waiting for all my life. Since "Perfect Exposure" is in the same series and was published afterward, I was presuming it would target the same audience and have a similar style. I was very wrong.

Photographer's Eye is concise, yet written with very realistic expectations of the audience's technical background in art composition. It does not assume too much background and does not attempt to move the reader too far along the curve from where they are. It has a flow - I'm not sure if the flow is purposeful or if the topic just lends itself to "bite sized pieces loosely linked together."

I found "Perfect Exposure" to be the opposite. It reads like a science journal targeted at molecular biologists when you are NOT one - where you can pick up some details, but there is a lot of presumed prior knowledge, no connective tissue between topics and an attempt to cram way too much depth in to each subtopic. Encyclopedia entries do this because they aren't meant to lead the reader through a step by step understanding - but it does not match the style of the previous book by the same author in the same series.

I kept reading these subtopics thinking they were necessary background that simply weren't stitched together - but I finally realized we weren't going to get to a place where it all starts to tie together.

Quite Disappointed.

"The Photographer's Eye" is still my all time favorite photography book!