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Title: Bad photography
Review: I have never reviewed a book before but this one is so poor that I thought I should warn people. I bought this book to learn a little bit of black and white portrait lighting techniques and maybe some darkroom or other creative techniques however the images are awful. There are very few pictures in this book that are even in focus. I can tolerate soft focus but these are just bad. There was one image in the book that was o.k. and the photographer even said it was not planned, he just tripped the shutter as the subjects were playing around. The shots that he staged and set up are just terrible. I will stick with getting information and inspiration from "Hollywood Portraits: Classic Shots and How to Take Them" by Roger Hicks and Christopher Nisperos and also "Fine Art Children's Photography: Techniques and Images in Black & White" by Doris Carol Doyle. They both had better information and much better images.
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