Although the book is obviously outdated picturewise, the techniques described are still valid in this age of flash equipment and digital processing. The author tells from the roots up the how and what's of placing a light source, effect, contrast etc. together with a librairy of photo's by different authors, each picture with detailed description of place, hight, and nature of lightsource. It thus becomes easy to repeat the discussed effects in a modern studio, and then play with them. Highly recommended for anyone who searches a book on light with real information.