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With more than 350,000 copies sold, Understanding Exposure has demystified the complex concepts of exposure for countless photographers. Now updated with current technologies, more than one hundred new images, and an all-new chapter, this new edition will inspire you more than ever to free yourself from “auto” and create the pictures you truly want.

In his trademark easy-to-understand style, author Bryan Peterson explains the relationship between aperture and shutter speed, including how to achieve successful exposures in seemingly difficult situations. You’ll learn:

• Which aperture gives you the greatest contrast and sharpness, and when to use it 
• Which apertures guarantee the background remains an out-of-focus tone 
• Which one aperture—when combined with the right lens—creates an area of sharpness from three feet to infinity 
• How to creatively use shutter speed to either freeze an action or imply motion 
• Where to take a meter reading when shooting a sunset, snow, or a city at dusk

With new information on white balance, flash, HDR, and more, this updated classic will inspire you to stop guessing and take control of your settings for better photos anytime, anywhere, and with any camera.

Infuse your images with glowing, luminous light

From high-profile wedding and portrait photographer Elizabeth Messina comes this beautiful guide to shooting lush, romantic portraits exclusively in natural light. Whether you’re photographing children, weddings, maternity and boudoir, or portraits of any kind, The Luminous Portrait will inspire you with Elizabeth’s personal approach and award-wining images, sharing the art to making flattering portraits that appear “lit from within.”

This article, as the subtitle says, is "a short, non-technical, plain language guide by a 30-year pro". A quote from inside the book says, "Most of the information in this article can be used and understood by readers who only have a child, a cell-phone camera and no technical experience whatsoever."

The real magic in this booklet that sets it apart from "gear-orieinted" books and guides is in the "psyops section".The author shares his secrets for gently guiding the child's behavior in such a way as to produce "WOW" images. All the perfect lighting and posing suggestions and lens choices in the world will not wipe away a child's tears. Stopping the tears and inappropriate behaviors before they start is the key.

The book is direct, with no-bull or filler and is easy to read and put into practice.

It has 4345 words or about 13 to 17 standard paperback pages.

This article, as the subtitle says, is "a short, non-technical, plain language guide by a 30-year pro". A quote from inside the book says, "Most of the information in this article can be used and understood by readers who only have a child, a cell-phone camera and no technical experience whatsoever."

The real magic in this booklet that sets it apart from "gear-orieinted" books and guides is in the "psyops section".The author shares his secrets for gently guiding the child's behavior in such a way as to produce "WOW" images. All the perfect lighting and posing suggestions and lens choices in the world will not wipe away a child's tears. Stopping the tears and inappropriate behaviors before they start is the key.

The book is direct, with no-bull or filler and is easy to read and put into practice.

It has 4345 words or about 13 to 17 standard paperback pages.

“An essential guide.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

This book has one very simple purpose – to give you enough knowledge to go out into the world, pick up a camera and begin taking beautiful photographs immediately; irrespective of what equipment you use, whether it is a £5 disposable camera or a £5000 SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. The book is purposefully short and to the point. You will get instant results with the knowledge gained here. Think of it as being similar to a Cordial. All the knowledge is compacted to a small but thick density and all you need to do is add a little creativity to reap the rewards.

Extended Edition:

Following the success of the original book, Peter has revisited this work and added more useful tips, tricks and chapters to the book to produce this larger, more in-depth read. However, it still remains true to the spirit of the first book in being a very precise study, therefore allowing its readers to enjoy instant results.

This book has one very simple purpose – to give you enough knowledge to go out into the world, pick up a camera and begin taking beautiful photographs immediately; irrespective of what equipment you use, whether it is a £5 disposable camera or a £5000 SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. The book is purposefully short and to the point. You will get instant results with the knowledge gained here. Think of it as being similar to a Cordial. All the knowledge is compacted to a small but thick density and all you need to do is add a little creativity to reap the rewards.

Extended Edition:

Following the success of the original book, Peter has revisited this work and added more useful tips, tricks and chapters to the book to produce this larger, more in-depth read. However, it still remains true to the spirit of the first book in being a very precise study, therefore allowing its readers to enjoy instant results.

Brighton, 1855

As a member of the Order of the Round Table, Kendall Lake is overqualified to be investigating strange phenomena at a seaside photography studio. But since the photographer is related to the Order's most powerful sorcerer, Kendall reluctantly boards a dirigible to Brighton.

Amy Deland is haunted by a shadow that appears in some of her recent portraits. In each case, the subject died within days of the sitting. Does she have her grandmother's gift of foresight, or has she somehow caused the deaths?

As Kendall and Amy search for answers, their investigation draws them together in a most improper way—but it seems the evil presence in the studio is determined to keep them apart…

20,000 words

Brighton, 1855

As a member of the Order of the Round Table, Kendall Lake is overqualified to be investigating strange phenomena at a seaside photography studio. But since the photographer is related to the Order's most powerful sorcerer, Kendall reluctantly boards a dirigible to Brighton.

Amy Deland is haunted by a shadow that appears in some of her recent portraits. In each case, the subject died within days of the sitting. Does she have her grandmother's gift of foresight, or has she somehow caused the deaths?

As Kendall and Amy search for answers, their investigation draws them together in a most improper way—but it seems the evil presence in the studio is determined to keep them apart…

20,000 words

Everything you need to know in one take-anywhere field guide!

This all-in-one guide from renowned photographer, instructor, and author Bryan Peterson will help you take better photos anytime, anywhere–with any camera.

Want to finally understand exposure? Interested in learning to "see" and composing your images more creatively? Ready to master the magic of light? It’s all here, the techniques every amateur photographer needs to take better nature, landscape, people, and close-up photos. You’ll even get creative techniques, like making "rain" and capturing "ghosts," and practical advice on gear, equipment, and postprocessing software. Filled with Bryan’s inspirational photographs, this is the one essential guide for every camera bag.

Bestselling author/photographer Chris Orwig offers 30 photographic exercises to renew your passion for capturing the people in your world. This is not a traditional portrait photography book. The goal isn’t flattery, but connection and depth. Whether you are a student, busy parent, or seasoned pro photographer, these exercises provide an accessible framework for exploration and growth.
 
With titles like: Be Quiet, Turn the Camera Around, and the Fabric of Family, each of the 30 exercises encourages you to have fun and experiment at your own pace. With step-by-step instructions and using natural light, you will explore everything from street, lifestyle, candid, and environmental shots. The projects are small artistic endeavors meant to change how you see and the pictures that you make. All that’s required is a camera, an intrepid attitude, curiosity, and some imagination.

A landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality” (New York Times)

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today—recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century—it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.

Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.

Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.

Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park