This eBook is geared more towards your enthusiast and professional photographer involving some of the more complicated aspects of the use of time in photography. There is a great deal of technical jargon covering many of the technical aspects of time or shutter speed. As a beginner photographer, you may find it challenging if you are not comfortably familiar with the exposure triangle; Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO. There are many great examples and even videos included in the eBook to demonstrate what can be done with the techniques taught throughout the eBook.
If you want to experiment with your photography, improve your camera technique and master exposure, then this is definitely the eBook for you. There are some great ideas and techniques to help you produce photos that will make you stand out from the crowd and help you to master your camera in the process. It is definitely an extremely useful eBook with everything you need from gear and suggested camera settings to sample videos to get you excited about photographing time.
As this book is geared more towards your enthusiast and professional photographer, length can be somewhat subjective. With 65 pages in total from front to back it isn’t necessarily a long read, but it is longer than many other photography eBooks around. At the end of the book you also find a few handy field checklists as well as the usual 10% discount code for future purchases on some of Flatbooks’ other titles on the back page.
If you thought this was just another book on changing shutter speed to capture time, then think again; there are some cutting edge techniques such as cinema-graphs, involving video and animated GIFs, as well as detailed explanations and guides on how to capture star rotation, painting with light and time-lapse photography. The eBook covers everything and more from the use of flash and the stroboscopic mode, to flashlight and its use in light painting, to help you capture time.
This is not a coffee table book with the idea of impressing guests with beautiful photographs. Sure there are some really great photos demonstrating some stunning photography, but primarily, this is a practical book with images demonstrating the different techniques and ideas presented by the author. The layout of the eBook is neat, simplistic and easy to follow with clear sections/chapters indicating the different techniques on offer.