After already reading one of Michael Freeman’s books, the layout got a little tiring when reading Digital Photography Expert: Light & Lighting.
Although I can see how the arrangement might be nice if you’re just browsing through the text, as a sit-down book, this one probably won’t keep your interest. I found myself wanting to take frequent breaks. There are some good diagrams in this book, and as always, Freeman’s case studies are a great way to understand the concepts that might be a bit tough. The section on histograms is great, not only are you shown proper, under, and over exposed histograms, you are also shown “the exceptions to the rule.”
This text focuses more on available light and “found” light (e.g. cityscapes, lights you don’t have control over). The brief overview of studio lighting won’t satisfy – so don’t depend on this text to teach you studio lighting. For natural light, though, I can see how this text would be useful. Quality of light, temperature, and more are discussed.
Aside from disliking the format of this book for a straight read-through (for reference they’re probably great!), I think there is a lot of good information between the cover.
Betsy is a Michigan-based 
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