The way to learn, in my opinion, is to turn off all your automation, and use an incident light meter. You can buy perfectly good used meters very cheaply.
Most elementary photography books will give you a basic understanding of what's going on. Try these for a bit more information: "Photography" London and Upton. This is a standard textbook for photo courses and has been through many editions. This is nuts and bolts stuff. The Focal Press does a series of "Essential Skills" books by Mark Galer which are quite good. I have one called 'Location Photography' which has a decent section on exposure. I think the same sections are repeated in many of the books. Jim Zuckerman's "The Perfect Exposure" contains quite a lot of good information about difficult exposures. Whether it's easy to learn from, I can't tell. But it's worth a look. The little instruction books that come with some meters are often very good, basic guides to exposure. For example, the guidebook that comes with the Sekonic L-398M includes pretty much everything you need to know about using an incident meter. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: UncaMikey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 May 2005 23:11 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Understanding exposure? Recommendations? > > Most photography books I've read have not been very helpful, > other than being able to look at interesting pictures. > > I would like to learn more about exposure, however. Nuts and > bolts stuff, practical information. > > Any recommendations for a good learning/study guide for this topic? > Bryan Peterson's book, some other? A particularly good > online resource (that I can print out)? I know nothing can > replace experience, trial and error, but I would prefer some > sort of guide rather than wandering aimlessly... >
