Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4482 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-30
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
This is an invaluable sourcebook of techniques, effects, and ideas from best-selling author, Lee Frost - guaranteed to put the creativity back into your photography. It sets out more than 40 creative techniques and subject ideas to help you produce exciting, innovative images. It is split into two parts, the first covering techniques and the second subject areas, to help increase the creativity of your photographs. It also includes in-camera and darkroom techniques alike.

Customer Reviews

Lee Frost just delivers
This is a great little book. Yes it does largely apply to film, but it doesn't take much know-how to translate the info into digital setting. The camera just takes the picture, after all, and it's the person behind the eyepiece who makes the image. Lee Frost gives very good advice, and this book is well worth the money. Highly recommended.

unremarkable book
The many positive reviews do not reflect how I have found the book.

If you are an amateur like me who wants to seriously learn how to take better photographs this is not a worthwhile book.

It addresses the various styles of photography (landscapes, wildlife, interiors, people) and makes you aware of numerous fundementals that exist in photography, but as the book valiantly wants to cover everything it actually teaches you little about anything.

Too little information, teachnique, detail or help is given on any subject and you end up feeling as if you've just read a closed book.

Compared to the other jack-of-all-trade offerings out there it is decent, but it still feels as if it could have been cut and pasted from anywhere.

If you want to be aware of the various fundementals of photography it will do that, but I don't think it teaches anything and you will be discarding it very soon.

More of a reference book
I now own 3 books by Lee Frost which surprises me because I was not a big fan of the first one I received as a present (Photos that sell). This one however is much better in my oppinion because it concentrates more on how to take good pictures rather than what you should use.

First, forget the idea that this is a handbook as it's almost A4 in size. The first section of the book contains chapters on lighting, composition, focusing, colour and the darkroom (ok so a darkroom is not relevant to digital photographers but it is a short chapter).

The second section of this book is what I was looking for as a digital photographer as it has usable chapters on how to photograph people, landscapes, nature scenes and movement effects. By concentrating on the content of the images rather than the equipment used, Lee shows what makes a good photo, not just one that's technically perfect.

Reading this book inspired me to go out and take more pictures which is what a good photography book should do.