[.ca] Advanced Photography (ISBN 0240514866)

Terrible, save your time and read something else:
This title and the other by this author illustrate the worst possible scenario to teach photography at college level. Both books are complete yes and even updated (digital technology). I was a teaching assistant as an undergraduate and as a graduate student. I would never have used these books to teach anything about photography. The style and the type of writing is this: "This is what photography is, now go and find out there is it's true or not". It is old style (it is British title forget not). The correct way to teach photography is 1) slowly, 2) based on experiment (for the student to construct concepts by himself) and 3) total freedom. The contents are so ridiculous that the author even suggests a minimum kit for a 35mm, 6x6 cm, and a 4x5 camera! Really! Save your money and time. Stick to Henri Horenstein's titles ("Black and White Photography", " Beyond Basic Photography" and ""Color Photography") especially the last one ("Photography"), expensive, but worth it! ...

Technical details:
This book (5th edition) provided a few good, new tips and explainations, but my overall impression is one of incredibly technical detail on the practical aspects of equipment and processes. I feel like it's important enough to have a general understanding of "how things work" to stick with this book, but it does not give much advice on how to think about or approach photography. My eyes often glaze as they pass over how to read manufacturers' charts and graphs, how calculate focal length and color balance, etc., but if you're into that kind of information, you might be interested.

Michael Langford is the best photo author I've read:
It is a great book to further understand photographic concepts from a scientific point of view. If anyone wants to master his photo skills this is the book.