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Great for ideas...

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I bought this book a fair few years ago at the beginning of my photography career and it was a great introduction book, perfect for beginners. However if you favor digital photography be aware that this book is completely film based. Great to keep on the shelf for a reminder of a few old d.i.y. tricks to help you achieve your desired image without spending hours in photoshop ;) Though not the most up-to-date book on this subject.

A Major Improvement Required

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I read the previous reviews on this book and thought it would be a good buy, but I am not that impressed at all with its contents. For one, this book is written with a film user in mind and not really geared towards the majority of digital users. Though the techniques can be applied to digital users I found most of the content slightly out-dated. This book was last updated in 2007, or at least re-published and I feel the author could have made some in roads to the techniques useful for digital users. This book is destined for the charity shop or even ebay.

Nice and practical but intended for film photographers?

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Having read (and enjoyed) a number of Lee Frost's other books, I was looking forward to something sensible, practical and inspiring. The book is certainly that. Lovely pictures and down to earth discussion on how the kinds of effects are achieved including detailed camera set-up. However, as I've discovered in some of Lee's earlier books, he is strongly film-biased and it shows in this book. I had hoped that, being published relatively recently, there would be more than a passing nod to digital but there wasn't. I was disappointed with that but not entirely surprised. That said, the majority of settings and techniques in the book can be replicated on a DSLR (and even a good Creative Compact). Lee manages to make the techniques sound relatively simple and achievable by anyone willing to take some time and trouble. I'd recommend a number of Lee's other books and this one is certainly worth a look if the subject matter is of specific interest, regardless of whether you shoot film or digital.

Superb book

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This book is one of the best photographic books I have read. Packed from cover to cover on just about every aspect of low light and flash photography. The theory of and how to achieve fantastic effects, it gave me loads of ideas and inspiration on possibilities I have never imagined. There is one downside to the book and that is it is based on film, but that is due to the age of the book when digital photography was very much in its infancy. However, don't let that put you off because the theory and techniques are just as valid for digital. If Lee reads this then an update to current technology would make this book perfect and I would buy a new one - my current copy is falling to pieces due to heavy use.

Buyer Beware!

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Very good book with some interesting ideas for photographic projects, but it is VERY film based, so if you (like me) have made the move to digital you have to adapt the ideas he outlines. He does mention digital, but as the book was written in 2001, he doesn't pay it much heed. Nice concepts, given me ideas, but due to it's preponderance and bias towards the film medium, it isn't great (in my honest opinion)