Barry Tanenbaum

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John Paul Caponigro Embraces Technology to Create Stunning Fine Art Images of Nature
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Aug 04, 2015

John Paul Caponigro’s elegant, intriguing fine art images result from his control of a complex mix of inspiration, insight, and experience. And one other thing: his enthusiastic embrace of technology in the pursuit and realization of vision.

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"The Pano Rocks!": Why Shooting Panoramic Photos Can Be So Fulfilling and So Much Fun
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Oct 10, 2018

The exclamatory headline was in an e-mail sent to me by Dr. Alan Sloyer when I asked him to forward the high-res file for this image, which he took in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on a family vacation in 2017.

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"Use The Cloth, Luke!"
And Other Essentials To Have At Hand When Confronting The Dark Side
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Oct 01, 1999

In our travels through the
land of photography we spend a fair amount of our time talking with
folks who spend a fair amount of their time in darkrooms. And each one
has a list of darkroom essentials--no, not enlargers...

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(Un)Natural Wonders; Rob Atkins Captures The Passing Scene
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Aug 01, 2006

In the early 1980s, when he was just starting out as a commercial and advertising photographer, Rob Atkins took a few trips to the Southwest. "I went to photograph the great natural wonders," Rob says, "like the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley." But as he traveled to those and other destinations, something else caught his eye. "So often, out in the...

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...Like An Eagle
John Pezzenti's Freedom Book
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Oct 01, 1999

They recognize him, the eagles.
Not all of them, of course, but enough of them so that he can get close...and
closer still. "I learned that eagles can recognize a face for
over 20 years," John Pezzenti,J...

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5 Tips that Will Help You Shoot Stunning Natural-Light Portraits
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 25, 2019

It's no secret that professional photographers are less concerned with cameras and lenses than they are with understanding and controlling the light that allows their images to be made.

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A Closer Look: Digiscoping with Smartphone Cameras for Wildlife Photography
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jul 15, 2019

Sharon Stiteler was seven years old when she saw a pileated woodpecker—not in the wild, mind you, but in the pages of a Peterson Field Guide. It was enough. “I was intrigued by the idea that there was a crow-sized woodpecker out there,” she says.

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A Photographers Place
A Bookshop For The Rest Of Us
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jul 01, 1999

You know those bookstores where you walk in and right near the entrance there's a cafe with seating for maybe 40 people, and there's a menu that offers dozens of selections, many of which you can't pronounce, and there's a rack of...

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Adventure Shooter Lucas Gilman Reveals the Tech & Techniques Behind His Extreme Outdoor Photos
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Feb 02, 2016

We were going over the photos for this story when photographer Lucas Gilman said something I didn’t entirely agree with. He was talking about making an image in which a bird came into the frame just as a surfer was making his move on a wave. “Cameras are so good now, anybody can take the exact same pictures I can,” he said, “so what I do is look for and take advantage of subtleties that others overlook. That way I separate myself from everyone else who can buy a new camera and make great pictures.”

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Ahead of the Curve: How a Forward-Thinking Pro Creates Images for the Social Media Market
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 19, 2016

“A mobile device can display still images and video, and it can broadcast audio,” Sciorio says. “The creation point for all three of those is my camera: it shoots stills, video and records audio. So why was I using only one-third of the tools I had? Why was I trying to sell only one kind of product?”

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