Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure: How They Interact and Affect Each Other Paperback – January 30, 2013

Al Judge, author or photography master? I say both, I have read a couple of his other books and they are all the best of the best. This book, Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure has taught me more than the college-level photography course I took over a year ago. This book should be the textbook for those courses. I was still unclear about many aspects of photography until I found this book. Of course, I took better pictures but I wanted to know what made them better. We can always better ourselves but if we don't know why or how, then we have limits. Al Judge takes away those limits and explains to the reader, very clearly, what kind of effect a certain technique or just a slight change would make to the final product. My pictures always seemed a bit "noisy", but by making better sense of ISO speed, Al has taught me how to correct that problem in such a way that I could actually explain it to someone else. I think that is the best way to judge a book, not just by how you interpret the information, but how you can relay that information to someone else. You can go through and read all of the reviews you want, or you can just buy the book and start taking better pictures right away.

I've bought myself a very good camera because a normal camera just doesn't do it when it comes to bird photography (esp. when you want to take photos of them while they fly). I am quite good at taking bird photos but there were many things about photography that always puzzled and intimidated me. I simply didn't want to get into the details because I was worried I'd never understand them. A few days ago, when there was a super moon, I wanted to get photos of it but every single time, the moon was just a white blob on the photo. So I started playing around with the MANY settings of my camera and by trial and error got the right settings to get good photos. I then realized, I needed to learn more about taking photos. I needed to know what those settings are and what things like Av and Tv mean.I then found this little eBook and have to say many things are so much clearer to me now. There are still many things I do not understand because even though the author said his book would be easy to understand, it wasn't in some parts. Some parts were just formulas and mathematical talk - I didn't get it. Apart from that, the book was extremely helpful and a good starting point!

This was great when I started photography. Described things in detail and great learning tool.

Love this book... Excellent writer, great details, easy to follow information. He has a very direct way of teaching new to intermediate photographers terms & easy to understand information.

Short and SWEET! Bought this for my daughter who is just getting into photography but I also found it very helpful. Zeroing in on the basics of exposure this book is a great, easy to read primer for just about anyone. The real-life examples were great! Would like to see more of those - maybe an entire book with these examples - illustrating various techniques. I'd much rather read a short book describing one person's approach than a large tome explaining all the options. The cameras today are techno-rich and a hard-to-get-through manual is something that sucks the fun right out of a inherently fun activity. Thanks for a concise, helpful (and affordable) book!

nice book for the price,very basic good for introduction, but it’s a little outdatedMaybe a revision would make it better

I am new to photography, I am interested in landscapes, birds, and astrophotography. I have been watching content on The Great Courses about photography, which has helped tremendously. The lectures suggested immersing myself in as many ways as possible of the basics. This book didn't teach me anything I didn't already learn, but it did help it stick in the memory a bit more. It is a quick read and a good way to go over the basics. I would not recommend this as a first or only source of learning the basics of photography, but if you have time, it is worth it to supplement.

I picked up a copy of this book for $3.95 not to long ago, I thought it was a good price and there were a lot of customer reviews. I always have the option of a refund if I don’t think the book lived up to its promise.Overall, I picked up some helpful tips that I want to try out this coming weekend, --weather permitting. I do mostly landscape and outdoor photography, trying to “capture the moment” on my frequent camping and fishing trips. I want to get better pictures, as what I usually end up with are images with blown out sky and clouds, you know, not much in the way of details. Everything else is dark and also without much detail.For a book that is roughly 75 pages, there is a lot of information, well worth the $3.95 IMHO. Unless you’re a pro, you can’t go wrong picking up a copy of this book.