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Wider Worlds; Getting Closer To The Story
Outdoor/Travel, Pro Techniques
Maynard Switzer • Jan 01, 2011 • 0 comments

Ten years ago, when I was primarily a fashion photographer, I did a shoot in Cuba. Normally I’d have used medium and long telephoto lenses, but because the narrow streets I was shooting on featured colorfully painted walls, I switched to a 35mm lens. With that lens I was able to show not only the models but also the background, which revealed a bit about the location. Equally important, I...
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Women In Photography
Abstracting From Nature
Pro Techniques
Rosalind Smith • Mar 01, 1999 • 0 comments

If you ask Grace Hopkins-Lisle
where the greatest influence on her photography lies, she will probably
answer, "right here"--here being a small, odd-shaped, cement
house set pretty among trees at the end ofa...
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Women In Photography
Christine Triebert's Career--A Balancing Act
Pro Techniques
Rosalind Smith • May 01, 1999 • 0 comments

Christine Triebert was looking
for a different way to photograph the landscape, an alternative process
that would be more subjective in nature, more abstract. She wanted to
continue working in silver since it would give...
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Women In Photography
Claire Yaffa Portrays Hard Hitting Issues
Pro Techniques
Rosalind Smith • Feb 01, 1999 • 1 comments

When Claire Yaffa showed
her photographs to Cornell Capa, he said, "You take pretty pictures,
Yaffa, but what do you really want to say?" Yaffa thought long
and hard about the question. She had always beenin...
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Women In Photography
Karin Rosenthal--A Passion For The Human Form
Pro Techniques
Rosalind Smith • Jul 01, 1999 • 0 comments

"Your camera is like
a Geiger counter. It takes you to the right place. When it faces something
that doesn't interest you, there is no tick-ticking, but when
it faces something you like, it is tickingaway....
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Women In Photography
Marnie Crawford Samuelson
Pro Techniques
Rosalind Smith • Jun 01, 1999 • 0 comments

Marnie Crawford Samuelson
recalls one of her earliest influences, the photographer Sam Abell,
telling about a body of work he did on canoeing. His bosses were not
enthusiastic about the project initially but Abell hadst...
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XPan Scans; Tips And Tools For Digitizing Panoramic Film
Pro Techniques
Joe Farace • Sep 01, 2005 • 0 comments

My favorite scene in the film Lawrence of Arabia is when Peter O'Toole, as Lawrence, looks out onto the desert landscape and watches a rider riding slowly toward him. It turns out to be Omar Sharif but the encounter is made more dramatic by the widescreen format.

There are a lot of ways to make panoramic images, including cropping standard...
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Zooming Around
Eight Reasons Why I Shoot With Zoom Lenses
Pro Techniques
Rick Sammon • Aug 01, 2002 • 0 comments

I'll never use a zoom lens." That's what some of my professional photographer friends said when I first got into photography back in the mid-70s. Back then, zoom lenses did not compare in sharpness to fixed focal length lenses. What's more, the zoom...
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