The Low Light Photography Field Guide: The essential guide to getting perfect images in challenging light (The Field Guide Series) 1st Edition

I guess I'm ready to improve my low light photo skills. Until now I have confined most of my amateur shooting to daytime outdoors and flash indoors.I'm writing after reading only half the book. So far, my only criticism is the size of the type. It's just too small for me to comfortably read - even with reading glasses. I have to read it in direct sunlight.Anyway, it has been worth the extra effort. The book is not only wonderfully informative, it's inspiring.Because I have only read half the book, and tried out only few of the examples., I promise to return and amend this review IF I have more to say.

As a concert and nature photographer, I'm always facing low-light situations. I was hoping Mr. Freeman's book would be helpful in helping me conquer some of the technical difficulties of these types of photography. And while the book will be ultimately helpful, I still find it extremely disappointing.Mr. Freeman's style is less than great, but the information presented is solid.The real problem is the book's layout. As other reviews have pointed out, this "field guide" seems to merely be a shrunken-down version of a full-sized book. The type is so tiny, it is nearly impossible to read, even at home under bright light. The example images he gives, images in which you are often looking for subtle differences, are so small they also become difficult to interpret. I'm slugging through it because I have to, but I don't wish this struggle on anyone else.Making the pages bigger, or adding pages, would have solved all of these problems. If it means the book would cost more, I'd be happy to pay.This is a ridiculous reason for an otherwise 3 or 4 star book to earn a 1 star review, but there it is. I'm amazed that any publishing professional could have let this book out in its current form.

I absolutely love Michael Freeman's other books. The Low Light Photography Field Guide is a good book that covers the basics of getting good shots in low light. My only complaint is the text is extremely small. I had trouble reading the book even with my glasses. This book would be better as an ebook. At least one could change the print size to something more readable.

The information is great but this is not a field guide. As a graphic designer as well as photographer I can see where a normal size book was simply miniaturized to make it portable and thus fit the category. The fonts, images, color and backgrounds all correspond to a larger format. At the present size it looks like the small print in some ads and is almost impossible to read. I would recommend that you wait until the publisher realizes the mistake made and comes out with a larger size book. Once you can actually read it, it will be worth every penny.

Excellent book covering almost all aspects of low-light photography in simple but concise manner with excellent illustrations.For some unknown reason published in microscopic print...???

Good information, print is small for aging eyes.

I purchased this item as a gift for my great-niece and she was very pleased with the book. Perfect size for taking along in the camera bag.

Great reading

Extremely disappointed. Photos in it are not motivating but terrible looking snapshots and it really doesn't focus on how to take great night or low light photos but almost exclusively on identifying problems in photos like blur, notice, chroma, wrong white balance etc. all of these things he talks about how to fix in Photoshop in few examples you can hardly see in this super small pocket book. It makes no sense that this book is a pocket book since the information isn't delivered in a way where you would use it in the field. It's not a book of techniques but just focus on issues in photos. The information in the book looks messy and it's just a lot of random topics.

I chose this because of it's subject matter and in particular because of the Author..Michael Freeman has a wealth of experience and he manages to impart it in a very understandable way.Where Photography is concerned, low light is a particularly neglected subject matter and for anyone wishing to cope with this and the difficulties that it can produce then this is the book for you.The format of the guide means it is truly a 'Field guide' and can be used for reference when tackling those tricky light situations..

What an be said about Michael Freeman that hasn't already been said. As a field guide it is small enough to carry in your kit bag. I have referred to it many times when on a shoot. Guides you through the low light approach to photography. I would recommend to any one.

This looks like a photo-reduced version of a normal-sized book. While the content may be superb, the microscopic font is almost illegible.

i also purchaised the exposure feild guid a few months back and hav enjoyed useing it and am now half way through this book both are great and the perfect size 2 fit in my camera bag id definatly recomend this