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Portraiture
Making A “Monte” Portrait
Take A Simple, Direct Approach
Monte Zucker  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, Monte Zucker, All Rights Reserved

My philosophy in my work: I don't photograph the world as it is; I photograph it as I want it to be. So, yes, I'm an incurable romantic. I confess.

Some of the portraits here were created digitally within the last year or two; some were created in the "olden" days before digital (25-30...

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Lou Jones; The World Of Jazz
Rosalind Smith  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, Lou Jones, All Rights Reserved

Having the good fortune to become involved wholly with an inspiration or an idea is pretty awesome, and as long as I have known Boston photographer Lou Jones he has been "involved." I don't think he has ever missed an Olympics event or turned away from his deep-rooted convictions about the death penalty...

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Help!
Robert E. Mayer  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Here is a quick tip list on letters for the HELP! desk:
Please confine yourself to only one question per letter. Both postal letters and e-mails are fine, although we prefer
e-mail as the most efficient form of communication. Send your e-mail queries to editorial@shutterbug.com with Help in the...

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Fujifilm’s Studiomaster Pro 3
Productivity Software For Your Images
Steve Bedell  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, Steve Bedell, All Rights Reserved

The rapidly changing world of professional photography has photographers scrambling to grasp all the new technology. Some photographers are film based, some use a mix of film and digital, and many (like me) are now 100 percent digital. But all photographers I talk to express the same concern--how can they increase...

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Solve Technical Problems With Affordable Photoshop Plug-Ins
Fred Miranda’s Suite Of Solutions
Peter K. Burian  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

All Photos © 2004, Peter K. Burian, All Rights Reserved

The Adobe Photoshop series is the most popular among image-editing programs, and this software includes a vast range of image-enhancing features. While some of the available tools are quite easy to use, advanced image-correction techniques require sophisticated and time-consuming multi-step processes. These are...

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The Epson R-D1 Journey Begins
A New Digital Version Of A Classic Rangefinder Camera, And More...
David B. Brooks  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, David B. Brooks, All Rights Reserved

Early in 2004 Epson announced a new digital camera body based on a classic 35mm rangefinder model with a Leica lens mount. This back-to-the-future concept caused a stir among members of the photo press, and I wrote as much as was known then about it in a First Look in the July 2004 issue. My chief concern then was...

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Editor's Notes
The Fine Art Of Portrait Photography
George Schaub  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

The portrait is one of the most demanding of all photographic tasks. We are asked to capture the character of a person in the brief, fleeting moment it takes to make an exposure. Painters seem to have the advantage, being able to take hours or days to render their impressions. They can block out forms and fill in the light and shadow as they see fit. What do we have to contend...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Share & Share Alike; Photo Sharing Is A Good Thing
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 (http://www.webshots.com"...

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Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and...

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The Leitz Thambar 90mm f/2.2
Why Is It Considered A Legendary Portrait Lens?
Roger W. Hicks  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, Roger W. Hicks, All Rights Reserved

The 90mm f/2.2 Leitz Thambar is one of those few lenses that is always prefixed "legendary." Designed primarily for portraiture, it was introduced in 1935 in Leica screw fitting, 39mmx26 tpi. It seems to have been discontinued during World War II, although there are scattered reports of...

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