Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: dead collection of dead facts

The books wants to be a technical guide to advanced photography but instead it is a collection of technicalities. It does not provide any indepth insight into HOW all this will improve your photography. Some of the techicalities are obvious, some of them - irrelevant, nothing about it is inspirational or thought provoking (like Ansel Adams's books are, for example). The pieces of info are poorly connected. I got nothing out of this book and returned it back to where I bought it after reading. Worst of all, the photographs used as examples throughtout the book are bad as well.If you want to improve your photography you will do *MUCH* better getting Ansel Adams' "The Negative" and "The Print", or "The Photographer's Master Printing Course" by Tim Rudman (truly excellent book, btw)