exposure

Exposure (aka High Art) [VHS]
$9.98
I enjoyed this film and its handling of knife techniques. It led me to seek out training in Arnis and other Philippine arts. Now I just wonder when it will be available in DVD. Its hard to believe nobody has released it yet.

The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure (BetterPhoto Series)
$24.95
I found the book very beneficial and easy to read and understand. Photos showing illustrations of what the author was trying to get across was helpful as well.

Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure: The Professional's Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs
$29.95
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!

Exposure Photo Workshop: Develop Your Digital Photography Talent
$29.99
After reading all the great review's I checked this book out at a local Bookstore. The review's seem to be spot on, I purchased it through my iPhone 'Amazon App' right there on the spot, can't beat Amazon's price and service.
So now that I have been reading this book for the last few days, (thanks for such fast delivery again Amazon), the book really does hold it's ground. Jeff Wignall is a natural, it's one thing to be a professional or master of any art form, but it's another to be a teacher and Jeff makes it look easy. The book answerers most of those dawning questions we all have as if you were in a private session with the author.