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Printing Your Digital Images
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Joe Farace • Jul 01, 2001 • 0 comments

One of the first things digital imagers are in a hurry to do after capturing an image is to print it. It is here in the real "digital darkroom" where pixographers have made technical advances that have freed them from some of the restrictions...
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Protecting Image Data Against Loss
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Joe Farace • Jun 01, 1999 • 0 comments

You don't have to have
your computer stolen to lose data. Sometimes hard disk crashes or other
hardware failures will destroy data.


The heart of the problem of lost data is two fold: Many people think...
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Raw Power; For Maximum Intensity Get Conversion Software That Works
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Joe Farace • Aug 01, 2005 • 0 comments

"All power corrupts but we need the electricity."--Anonymous

Those people who tell me they capture everything in raw format remind me of those photographers who used to shoot "everything on Velvia." Heck, I don't even shoot everything on CompactFlash. My Canon EOS-1D Mark II takes both CompactFlash and Secure Digital cards. Well Bunky, if...
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Reach Out And Photograph Someone...
By Camera Or Cell Phone
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Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2004 • 0 comments

"Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"--Lily Tomlin as Ernestine

There was some concern in various corners of our industry that not enough young people were becoming interested in...
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Real Or Photoshop?
Is That An Illustration Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?
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Joe Farace • Aug 01, 2004 • 0 comments

"Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu."--Lucretius (96-55 B.C.)

I happen to think that the process of making photographs extends beyond snapping a shutter. Manipulating images has...
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Resolution Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
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Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2000 • 0 comments

I have a confession to make:
In all of the 50 plus years that I've been making images, I've never photographed
a resolution chart. I have always judged a lens or camera's performance
by how much I liked using it and how good the photographs looked. Ine...
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Seeing Is Photography, No Matter How You Capture Images
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Joe Farace • Jun 01, 2000 • 0 comments

It makes no difference if
you take pictures with a Pentax K-1000 and paste them into an album
or capture images using an Epson 850Z digital camera and place them
in an eBooks digital album or on the web atPhotoPoint.co...
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Share & Share Alike; Photo Sharing Is A Good Thing
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Joe Farace • Apr 01, 2005 • 0 comments

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

"Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends."--Trey Parker & Matt Stone

There are lots of photo-sharing sites, even good ones, too, like Smugmug (www.smugmug.com) and Webshots (

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Small Wonders
It's A Small World, But I Wouldn't Want To Paint It
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Joe Farace • Sep 01, 2004 • 0 comments

"I am a Shutterbug subscriber and recently received the June issue." So begins a recent e-mail. "On page 74, Mr. Joe Farace describes the xD card as being `mostly useless.' I recently purchased an...
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Software Upgrades Pros And Cons
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Joe Farace • Sep 01, 1999 • 0 comments

To upgrade, or not to upgrade--that
is the question."--With apologies to William Shakespeare's
Hamlet

There comes a time in your
digitalimagin...
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