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The Photographer & The Blog; To Blog Or Not To Blog, That’s The Question
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Jun 01, 2007 • 0 comments

"I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative." --Steve Ballmer

Like it or not, Mr. Ballmer, blogging is a fact of life in this millennium. I'm always surprised by how many photographers' websites also have blogs. It...
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The Photographers Eye
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2003 • 0 comments

Travel Photography With A Big Difference
Glen Allison (www.glenallison.com) is a LA-based travel photographer whose imagery captures the...
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The State Of The Web; It’s Not The Medium That’s The Message
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Apr 01, 2008 • 0 comments

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.--Andrew Brown

Recently Adobe's CEO Bruce Chizen announced that all their applications would move online within 10 years. The same day I saw a headline that "Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic," referring to the nation's second largest...
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The Tools I Use; What’s In My Gear Bag And Why
Pro Techniques
Joe Farace • May 01, 2008 • 0 comments

"Silver white winters that melt into springs."--Oscar Hammerstein II

The idea behind this story was to provide insight into the photo gear I own and use, all of which was purchased from Shutterbug advertisers. During the review process many different photographic products pass through my hands but contrary to what you may think they don't stay there...
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The Vices Of Digital Imaging; You Can Play With Your Food, But Don’t Photograph It
Digital Innovations
Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2007 • 0 comments

"You haven't even touched your food."--Inga in Young Frankenstein

According to Metrocurean (http://amandamc.blogspot.com), a blog aimed at epicureans in the Nation's Capitol, it is OK to play with your food but taking pictures of it in restaurants is verboten. The story (posted in the...
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The Virtues Of Digital Imaging; Zealous Use Of Image-Editing Software Can Get You In Trouble
Digital Innovations
Joe Farace • Feb 01, 2007 • 0 comments

"No good deed goes unpunished."--Clare Boothe Luce

Editor & Publisher recently reported that Charlotte Observer Editor Rick Thames apologized to readers when a staff photographer "inappropriately altered" an image of a local firefighter. The original photograph had a brownish-gray sky, while the enhanced image featured a deep red sky and a...
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The Way Of The Future
Show Reports
Joe Farace • Jun 01, 2005 • 2 comments

"New at PMA `05: Film!"--Headline in Convention Daily Newspaper

In the entire history of the PMA show this is the first time no new 35mm film SLRs were introduced, so ya gotta wonder what the dude who wrote that was smoking. According to the British Journal of Photography, the manufacture of Contax and Kyocera 35mm film cameras has...
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The Wide View
Capturing And Printing Digital Panoramas
Digital Darkroom, Outdoor/Travel
Joe Farace • Aug 01, 2000 • 0 comments

People have been fascinated with panoramic imagery ever since the beginning of photography, but my own fascination can be traced back to Bausch & Lomb's invention of CinemaScope lenses for the movies during the 1950s. The first CinemaScope movie, The...
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The Zeiss Ikon SW Camera; 35mm Precision In The Digital Age
35mm Cameras
Joe Farace • Sep 10, 2007 • Published: Oct 01, 2007 • 1 comments

There are few truly magical names in camera design but Carl Zeiss is certainly one of them. The brand conjures up an image of optical perfection and cameras built to a standard, not a price point. Back in the 1950s, when I was dancing on TV's Buddy Deane Show and dreaming of making photographs with a camera that was more precise, more German, than my Argus C3, Zeiss Ikon...
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Thinking Differently On The World Wide Web; And Now For Something Competently Different…
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2008 • 0 comments

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."--Coco Chanel

My method for selecting websites for this column is no secret; I've talked about it here before and in case you missed it here's how it goes: I look at all of the sites suggested by Shutterbug readers but that doesn't mean they'll make the cut. I...
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