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Model Portfolios
First Time Shoot With A Beginner
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Steve Bedell • May 01, 1999 • 0 comments

The call typically goes like this. "Hi, my name is Sandy. My friends keep telling me that I should be a model. I don't know about that, but I need some portfolio pictures so I can show them to people. Do you do that? Can you tell me how much...
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Mr. Fix It
Posing Is Problem Solving...But Why Bother?
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Barry Tanenbaum • Jan 01, 1998 • 1 comments

The thing is, we don't
always look our best. And even when we do, the face in the mirror is
not the face we're going to see in the photograph; neither is
the rest of the body. We tend to automatically editou...
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Natural Selections; Gil Lopez-Espina’s Brand-New Blank Canvas
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Barry Tanenbaum • Mar 01, 2005 • 0 comments

Photos © 2004, Gil Lopez-Espina, All Rights Reserved

No matter how far we get from the starting point, there's always something that calls us back. Early influences, first goals, original career choices--they all have a way of hanging around at the edges, only to show up strong somewhere down the line.

That happened recently...
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New Concepts In Album Design
48 8x10s Does Not Do It Anymore
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Steve Bedell • Apr 01, 2003 • 0 comments

New Concepts In Album Design

It's really great to be involved in photography these days. I've seen more changes in the last five years than the 20 before it. And not one sector of the imaging world remains unchanged by...
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No Limits
The Reality Of Black And White
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Barry Tanenbaum • Feb 01, 1999 • 0 comments

Judah S. Harris tells this story about one of his photos: "I had just bought a new Bogen tripod, and I went out in the Olympic National Forest area in Washington to photograph with it. I left my rented car down on the road. I wanted to photograph...
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Not Just Another Walk In The Park
Vincent Versaces Presidio Project
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Rosalind Smith • Mar 01, 2003 • 0 comments

This park had a story that wanted to be told," says Vincent Versace, Los Angeles celeb photographer best known for his images of "the beautiful people" of Hollywood.

When the trustees of Presidio National...
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Odd Couplings
Lou Jones' Surreal Moments
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Barry Tanenbaum • May 01, 1999 • 0 comments

About a year ago I was talking to commercial and industrial photographer Lou Jones about the "personality" of a photograph, and how the photographer's point of view is absolutely necessary in order to make images that are more than merely record...
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On CD
How To Buy Your First Digital Camera
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Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2000 • 0 comments

When deciding to purchase your first digital camera, you're faced with many choices. How To Buy Your First Digital Camera is an educational CD-ROM that's designed to answer many of the initial questions you might have.

The presentation appears to have been...
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On Location At Carnival
Six Photographers Talk About Their Pics...And Along The Way Enter The Film/Digital Debate
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Jonathan Franklin • Mar 01, 2004 • 0 comments

Name/e-mail: Marie Hippenmeyer (mhipp@uol.com.br)
Nationality: Swiss
Shot for: Queen International
Personal website: no
...
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One Final Thought; Looking Down At A Fairy Tale
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Shutterbug Staff • Apr 01, 2006 • 0 comments

While touring the ancient town of Dolceaqua, Italy, we happened upon a wedding ceremony in progress at the antiquated church in the middle of the cobblestoned town square. An ornate carriage and a proud family waited for the bride and groom to emerge from the church. The air was festive, with flower petals covering the cobblestones and the family members milling about.
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Pamela Ellis Hawkes
Surrogate Reality
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Rosalind Smith • Feb 01, 2005 • 0 comments

All Photos © 2000, Pamela Ellis Hawkes, All Rights Reserved

Many of Pamela Hawkes' images seem familiar, a house we may have seen or even lived in at some time, a bouquet of flowers arranged for our dining room table, or the image of a woman's upper torso, her hands folded in her lap. But though the objects seem connected to us in some way there is a...
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Panoramic Photography With Your Digital Camera; Gear And A Guide To Maximum Panoramic Power
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Jim Porter • Jul 01, 2005 • 1 comments

My own interest in panoramic photography actually started several years ago, before digital was a real option for photographers. Once I discovered medium and large format photography, my interest in panoramic photography grew. At that point I was using the special-purpose Fuji GX617 and the Noblex 175 for panoramas, and I was happy with the results. But even so, I had grown weary...
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Panoramic Views
WYSISWYG And More
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Monte Zucker • Dec 01, 1999 • 0 comments

Have you ever wished for better vision? That is, not just to see more clearly, but at the same time to see things that you've missed seeing--or remembering--because there was just too much to take in at one time.

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Personal Project ; Roadside Attractions
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Barry Tanenbaum • May 01, 2005 • 0 comments

Photos © 2004, Barbara Kinney, All Rights Reserved

The think about the road less traveled is that it makes for a quicker commute. Barbara Kinney drives Seattle's Route 99 from her home to her job--she's a picture editor at The Seattle Times--and finds it a better way to go than the Interstate, which replaced 99 as the area's main highway.
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Personal Project; The Eyes Have It
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Andre Costantini • Aug 01, 2005 • 0 comments

Early in my photographic career, I found myself making images that I called "mistakes." This was because my favorite images were not always the ones that I intended to take, but in fact the ones that happened by "accident" I often liked better. I discovered that it was the overall process of making pictures that birthed good pictures. This understanding led...
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