Books by author: Lee Frost

Lee Frost is presumably a very good photographer, but you wouldn't know it from the handful of photos in this book. He admits that he's a newcomer to digital manipulation in Photoshop, so it's odd that he'd write a book about creative Photoshop manipulations.

The result is mixed. The text instructions are weak, probably because Frost has so little Photoshop experience. On the other hand, I got a handful of good ideas for effects to attempt in future projects, and with Photoshop knowledge gleaned from other books, I think I can get good results.

I can't recommend this book, but I'm glad that I borrowed it from the library.

The photos in this book are quite nice; they serve as examples of why photographers shouldn't put away their camera when light levels are low. Frost presents a handful of useful pointers on shooting particular kinds of subjects, like fireworks or the moon, but mostly the advice is: use a tripod, be a little bit smart about interpreting your camera's meter, and bracket, bracket, bracket.

Quite a lot of the book is dedicated to details that only matter if you are shooting film, so there wasn't as much here for me as I had hoped.