This is a decent book but written for film cameras. I bought this book based on recommendations from recent purchases. These techniques seem a little outdated since many users have switched to digital photography. It has some decent photos.

This a great book for those who want to know far far they can take the photography. It shows the different techniques which make a difference between a dull and a stunning photo.

After reading it (it takes some thinking too, because it is written for standard SLR cameras, not digital ones) I have a lot more tools to make my photos more artistic and eye-catching

As a photography teacher I had one copy of this book and have used it periodically throughout the years for suggestions with assignments. Now I will be teaching an adv. photo class and have ordered one for each student as a kind of text book. This book give a 1-2 page detailed but to the point description of a technique without all the blah blah blah that other books can waste your time on. It tells you the film to use, the apertures, shutter speed, any extra equipement and shows you color photos all on 2 pages. It is an EXCELLENT reference book.

I'm sure this was a great book, 8 years ago (i'd give it 4 stars then), but it's taken me forever to get through the book when every other technique is a film-specific technique like "duplicating slides", "pushing film, or "cross-processing", or is referring to specific cameras, film types, etc to get desired results. most of this can be done in photoshop with one dslr and a couple lenses.
thankfully, i just saw that Frost has released a new version of this book specific to digital photography. i probably wouldn't buy it though. i hope i can sell this used.

I like how this book is laid out; very "project-centric". The projects are fun and the theory well defined. My only complaint is that the book must pre-date use of digital SLRs as it's purely film focused.