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The Business Side Of Fine Art Photography; An Interview With Raymond Meeks
Maria Piscopo  |  Jan 01, 2010  |  0 comments

Born and raised in the Midwest, Raymond Meeks (www.raymondmeeks.net) came to fine art photography after establishing a successful career in the advertising and editorial markets. His love for song and story led to his success in fine art photography exhibitions and book publishing. In reviewing his work Miguel Garcia-Guzman says, “I...

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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
C.A. Boylan  |  Jan 01, 2010  |  0 comments

The Bizarre and Incredible World of Plants; by Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, and Madeline Harley; Firefly Books; $29.95; (ISBN: 978-1-55407-533-1)
Seeds, fruit, and pollen take on a strange almost alien form when seen in an extreme close-up view. The minute abstract details that were once hidden from our eyes are revealed in this collection of crisp and vibrantly...

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Hoodman/Trek-Tech Macro Photo Creative Toolkit
Press Release  |  Dec 30, 2009  |  0 comments

Hoodman and Trek-Tech are introducing a new toolkit for
macro photographers that makes positioning and stabilizing cameras for close up
macro photography quick and easy.

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Digital Photography In Black And White
 |  Dec 29, 2009  |  0 comments

Digital Photography In Black And White

Seeing In Grayscale Tones

by George Schaub

Somehow, we accept black and white as quite natural, as a fair and reasonable representation of what we have photographed. But it is hardly that—the world is filled with color in all its hue and shades, from the brilliant azure blue of...

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Crop & Frame For Impact
 |  Dec 29, 2009  |  0 comments

Crop & Frame For Impact

Find The Shot Within The Shot

by Jack Neubart

The moment you use the camera’s viewfinder to look at a subject, you are framing that subject. In essence, you are isolating that subject from the larger world surrounding it. And you are bringing the viewer into the scene you’ve defined...

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January 2010 Table Of Contents
 |  Dec 29, 2009  |  0 comments

January 2010

On The Cover
Maynard Switzer got in the boat to make this photograph of a Burmese fisherman at work, but there was something more he had to do to add just the right touch of color to the image. Find out what it was by taking to the road with Shutterbug’s new travel columnist on page 22. Aside from Switzer’ss...

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Copy of Make Your Computer Ready For Digital Photography
 |  Dec 29, 2009  |  0 comments

Make Your Computer Ready For Digital Photography

Bypass The “Default Demons”

by David B. Brooks

If you have recently purchased a new computer, whether a PC with Windows or an Apple Mac, is it really ready for use as a digital darkroom, to support opening, processing and editing or printing digital photographs?

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The “Photo Enthusiast” Market is Growing and More Enthusiastic than Ever
 |  Dec 29, 2009  |  0 comments

Industry Perspective

The “Photo Enthusiast” Market is Growing and More Enthusiastic than Ever


by Ron Leach

Two leading industry organizations recently combined forces to release an interesting
joint study on the status of the “photo enthusiast” market in the United States. PMA and
Fut...

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Panasonic GF-1 Test: In Brief*
Staff  |  Dec 28, 2009  |  0 comments
The Panasonic is a very compact camera with an interchangeable lens system based on the Micro Four Thirds system. It offers 12 MP resolution, easy handling for beginners and professional users, a large LCD on the back as electronic viewfinder and HD-video capabilities.

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Fujifilm Finepix S200 EXR; Great Video and High Zoom Capability
George Schaub  |  Dec 23, 2009  |  1 comments

The Fujifilm Finepix 200 EXR (list: $599; street, under $500) sports a 12 megapixel sensor and a 14.3X optical zoom lens that is equivalent to 30.5-436mm (!) It takes stills and high-quality video and has a built in mic that delivers quality sound without much if any whirring from the camera. Having that much zoom capability means that you never will want on the tele side with this integral lens camera, and even 30mm is not bad on the wide side.
Looking like a small D-SLR with a moderate zoom lens, the S200EXR actually sports a 30.5-436mm optical zoom, an incredible range in a lens this small, though smaller sensor size is part of the reason they could attain the smaller size.

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