Originally posted by SpecialK He seems to shoot at f11-22 a lot. Was a bit confusing at first when he wrote "turn the aperture dial/ring until f (whichever) indicates the right exposure". Could have been me :-)
Nice photos and some handy exposure-estimating examples, but I was not as impressed as most others seem to be, though I had some years of experience before reading it.
I too had some years of experience before reading it... but I found it helpful.
These days, many folks seem to use lens aperture primarily for depth of field control, with the part it plays in exposure being almost a secondary factor after shutter speed. My sense is that many film era photographers - Peterson included - learned that aperture be first and foremost a means of controlling exposure, with depth of field a secondary factor... a consequence, even. Indeed, lots of compact film cameras only had one or two shutter speeds, and employed aperture as the primary means of controlling exposure. Thinking of aperture in terms of the effect on exposure first and depth of field second can be fundamentally helpful, I think - especially when you go beyond natural light and venture into flash photography...