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Quite a valuable addition to my photo books collection. For a beginner in the night-time photography, a must have, full of tips, techniques and actual useful numbers, such as shutter speeds, apertures, reciprocity breakdown correction values etc. in different low-light situations. Those guys who say the actual numbers are not there did NOT read the book - they flipped through it without paying attention. To sum up - for a beginner in low-light picture taking, a good buy for the money. (...)

i found this book to be chock full of words and very little content. it reminds me very much of popular photography magazines in the style and skill in writing (i.e. very little of either). in order to write an entire book, the author keeps saying the same things over and over and getting into way too much detail with the simplest of issues while failing to get very deep on the issues that really interested me into buying this book. like reciprocity failure charts for various films, light painting techniques, rear curtain sync with studio strobes, etc. oh yeah, it touches on these subjects, but 90% of the book is just the reiteration of "put your camera on a sturdy tripod"...

there's nothing here that you can't easily extrapolate on your own from a general photography book.

and the photography is cheese. there's one or two interesting photos, the rest are just like the text. reiterations of images we've all seen before (bridge reflection in water, superimposed moon over a cityscape, boats on a calm lake (of course), fireworks, waterfalls, lame lame lame).

mr. frost is just not a very creative guy.

very disappointing.

one of the best books on the subject i have come across, very well structured with chapters starting from some basics, passing into the choice of equipment, and films, then a thorough exhusting chapter on exposure and metering, it also contains excellent chapters describing different situations and how to handle them...
the pictures are really stimulating, but in order to get similar results you need a heavy weight pocket, as most of the photos were taken with fast lens that are not cheap basically, but thats not the books' fault!!
i highly recommend it and i am glad i baught it, at a price so low for it's real value.