Understanding Digital Photography: Techniques for Getting Great Pictures |
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 | Reading "Understanding Digital Photography" by Bryon Peterson is a bit like being at a family get-together, and being given a lot of good advice by friendly uncle Phil over a couple of beers. Then you later discover that friendly uncle Phil didn't know what he was talking about! It does mar what was otherwise a good experience.
What makes me think of a family get-together is the folksy, jocular tone and the amusing comparisons between technical subjects and familiar things. Here are a few of Bryan Peterson's more colorful attempts at making digital photography understandable:
- The pixels on the sensor work together like a family, like socialism, and it's too bad Stalin and Mao Tse-tung couldn't see this (pg 16).
- JPEGs are like amnesia or like AM radio or like prepared meat loaf (pg 18, 20).
- TIFFs are like elephants (pg 19).
- ISO is like caffeine, and high ISO is like bloodshot eyes (pg 22).
- Long exposure times cause the pixel family to fall apart and have a nervous ... read more.
Written by Bryan Peterson.
Published 01 November 2005.
Published by Amphoto Books.
rrp £16.99.
160 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0817437967
ISBN-13: 9780817437961 | |
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