The best picture is the one on the cover.
Inside you wont find stuff like this.
Its a guiding book how to create very boring pictures, pictures with a certain kind of nothing.
I'm not a friend of dramatic expression, because you get fatigued very quick, but you can also make pictures with are free of shadows, structure, tension.
The kind you look at and forget in a second.
Recommanded instead:
Hot Shoe Diaries by Joe McNally
Light, Science and Magic
Author(s): Stephen A. Dantzig
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 129
About the Author\n......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
Quantity of Light......Page 23
Quality of Light......Page 27
Color Temperature......Page 29
The Additive Nature of Light......Page 30
How They Work......Page 32
How to Use......Page 33
Size Matters......Page 38
Halos......Page 40
StripDomes......Page 42
Louvers......Page 46
StripMasks......Page 48
Parabolic......Page 49
Reflectors......Page 50
Portraits......Page 51
Fashion and Glamour Images......Page 59
4. COMBINING LIGHT SOURCES......Page 73
Glamour Photography\n......Page 87
Beauty Lighting......Page 94
Playing with Color......Page 99
Other Applications: Products and Interiors......Page 100
6. LIGHTING ON LOCATION......Page 106
Index......Page 124