Igor Lysov is an extraordinary person. Having once undertaken, on the instructions of a publisher, to write a simple manual for those who like to “click” something, in the 5 years separating the current, Third edition of his book from the first - 1996, he created, without noticing it himself, the aesthetic canon of modern amateur photography; if not a school, then a language that formed from the “darkness of the people” a new human community - domesticated photomaniacs. Today you can find complete information about the most modern photographic equipment in special magazines and the Internet; Igor Lysov offers something completely different - modern photographic thinking, which equalizes the creative possibilities of the owner of a digital Cybershot and his grandfather’s old “Kyiv”.