Creative Techniques -- Light -- Painting with light -- Lightbox lighting -- Projected light -- Creative flash effects -- Night lights -- Lighting for mood -- Composition -- Learning to see -- Creating balance -- Leading the eye -- Filling the foreground -- Breaking the rules -- Composing for impact -- Focusing -- Look sharp -- Less is more -- De-focusing for effect -- Focus on action -- Colour -- Harmony and discord -- Saturation point -- Symbolic colour -- Abstract colour -- Darkroom -- Image interpretation -- Print toning -- Hand-colouring prints -- Creating lith prints -- Soft-focus printing -- Creative Subjects -- People in camera -- Capture emotion -- Portraits that tell a story -- Shoot for sex appeal -- Put yourself in the picture -- Shoot the kids -- Travel portraits -- Scenics -- Classic views -- The intimate landscape -- Changing seasons -- Expressionist landscapes -- Light on the land -- Urban landscape -- External views -- All square -- Bits and pieces -- Shooting interiors -- Nature -- Captive wildlife -- Pets on parade -- Wild pictures -- Garden wildlife -- Movement -- Expressing movement -- Freezing action -- Everyday action -- Passing time.

This invaluable sourcebook of techniques and ideas is guaranteed to put the creativity back into one's photography. With photographic technology reaching new heights of sophistication, producing technically perfect photographs is now easier than ever before. Unfortunately, no matter how cleaver a camera is, it's still a tool that can only do what its operator tells it to do. The Creative Photography Handbook shows photographers how to use their imagination and apply a little photographic magic. It presents more than 70 cerative techniques and subject ideas to help readers produce exciting, innovative images. Whether a complete beginner or an experienced photographer looking for something to spice up their picture-taking, readers will find this book to be an invaluable source of ideas and effects.