Photography eBook | Exposure for Outdoor Photography by Michael Frye

There is more to exposure than just getting the right amount of light into the camera. Every exposure also creates a specific aesthetic. Exposure For Outdoor Photography is about natural-light photography and the creation of exposures that are not only technically perfect, but aesthetically compelling.

This 50-spread PDF ebook, tackles the basics, and goes on to discuss the different ways of accomplishing different exposures to bring about different aesthetics. It covers metering modes, exposure modes, histograms, high-contrast scenes, depth of field, shutter speeds, and exposure blending, and more, and includes 10 case studies, and beautiful photographs, to illustrate. There is a lot of information for photographers of all levels in this book and if you’ve ever wrestled with your exposure, Michael Frye can move you forward. | Craft And Vision

For someone like me who like to shoot with natural light or available light, mastering exposure is a must especially in manual mode. Yes I know that todays DSLR have super advance program mode like fully program mode where the camera will choose both aperture and shutter speeds depending on your ISO setting, Shutter Priority Mode where you choose the shutter speed and your camera will choose the aperture and Aperture Priority Mode where you choose your aperture and let the camera choose the shutter speed and there is also another program mode that can be found on entry level DSLR camera like landscape, portrait and sports mode, just to name a few. This variety of modes will definitely help in some ways especially for beginners to get the pictures they want without thinking too much about the exposure.

But be remember that no matter how advanced your DSLR camera are, it is not foolproof, meaning that it will never guarantee you to get a perfect exposure or the exposure that you really want it to be. I really don’t like to call it a perfect exposure because it is a highly subjective matter, just look at the picture of the glowing yellow aspens leaves above, do you think the exposure is perfect? Yes for that leaves, the exposure is good but for the background, it is not good, do you think the exposure is bad, personally I think it is a great exposure because based on the picture above I can figure out that the photographer intention is to highlight the yellow leaves and wanted to make it stand out from the ridge.

My point is that perfect exposure is largely depend on your intention, and the only way how you can control your intentions or your vision is by manually control the exposure, if you let the camera to handle the exposure using program mode, it will probably make the ridge look a little bit brighter and the setback is that, the yellow leaves will become too bright, probably overexposed because there is a large difference of exposure between the two of them.

So this new eBook from Craft And Vision will help you to manually control the exposure, even though most of the subjects in this eBook is about landscape photography, you can use the method also when photographing people or any subject under natural or available lights. Michael Frye will show you how to use and master “The Exposure Triangle” to get the right exposure to properly exposed your vision, for those of you who doesn’t know about “Exposure Triangle” it is a combination of ISO, Shutter Speeds and Aperture. These combination will determined your exposure.

How you combine those Exposure Triangle is depend on your intention or priority, I mean which one is your priority, for me the first thing that I will set is the ISO because the best ISO to begin with is always the lowest ISO like 100 or below, and I will only increased the ISO when the situation or the lighting does not permit me to use that ISO and I don’t have a tripod with me, then I will choose either the aperture or the shutter speeds depending also on the subject that I want to shoot, if I want to shoot a moving subject and wanted to freeze the actions, my next step is to choose the appropriate shutter speed but if my subject is a person or I want to take a portrait and blur the background, then I will choose an aperture after I set my ISO.

So to those of you who are still struggling to get the right exposure especially in tricky lighting situation like in the snowy area, where exposure can become a problem for program mode or you wanted to try backlighting photography, whether it is a landscape or portrait photography, I highly recommended this new eBook by Michael Frye from Craft And Vision

Among the highlight of this great eBook is, The Exposure Triangle, how to read the Histograms, Exposure Modes, Metering Modes and how to control high-contrast scenes. Stop scratching your head and go straight to Craft And Vision and get your eBook and take a manual mode with confidence. Be a master of your crafts.

* You might also wanted to check this eBook titled Vision is Better by David duChemin

Photography eBook | Exposure for Outdoor Photography by Michael Frye

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