On the face of it, taking photographs has never been easier: it seems that, as cameras become increasingly automated, all the photographer has to do is find a subject and press the shutter. However, this is often where the creative photographer's problems start: until you understand the limitations, as well as the potential, of your equipment and film stock, you will never have true control over your image making. This book aims to give creative control back to the photographer. Divided into three main sections - Factors Influencing Exposure, Exposure Assessment and Creative Exposure Techniques - it takes you from simple theory through metering systems to adjusting exposure, both in the camera and at the processing stage. A refreshingly jargon-free guide for anyone who has ever wrestled with the intricacies of Ansel Adams' famed Zone System or simply wondered how to take a meter reading, Creative Exposure Control will help you make sense of the theory and get the shot you want every time.

A unique survey of photography from its origins until now From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world. The continually expanding photography collection contains over 400,000 images and negatives - among them the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams and others - as well as 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film. The George Eastman House is a pilgrimage site and a place of worship for researchers, photographers and collectors from all over the world.

This volume shows in chronological order the most impressive images and the most important developments in the art of light that is photography. It provides in its huge collection and themes a unique survey of the medium from its origins until now.