photography courses

[Dan Fleming]

Any books you'd recommend as must-reads?

I have found Bryan Peterson's Understanding Exposure and Learning to See Creatively to be fairly helpful for starting out. The one is more technical than the other, but photography takes both science and art! If you don't want to buy them, and live in the US (I don't know if you can do this outside the US, hence that caveat, someone more knowledgable can correct me), you can go to a bookstore, and pull the book off the shelf, read it, put it back. If it is really helpful then buy it, otherwise look at others in the section and find one that works for you. That is what I have done.

[Gina Franco]

Bryan Peterson's Understanding Exposure

This book comes up a lot in online discussions, mainly in passing. I'll take your advice and see if I can find it at the bookstore. I guess I'm looking for books that are both technically and creatively challenging, but that won't leave my understanding in the dust. Thank you!