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Photography Through The Ages
Norma Holt
Rosalind Smith  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

Norma Holt surveys her subjects
with the eye of a purist, her direct and intelligent gaze looking at
life from childhood to old age. Her focus is often on the artists around
her, some well-known, others, less noted, but...

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No Limits
The Reality Of Black And White
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

Judah S. Harris tells this story about one of his photos: "I had just bought a new Bogen tripod, and I went out in the Olympic National Forest area in Washington to photograph with it. I left my rented car down on the road. I wanted to photograph...

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Nikon Super CoolScan 2000
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

Nikon has been at the forefront of 35mm film scanning from the beginning, and has enjoyed a top position in the field most recently with the CoolScan LS-1000. Just a short time ago Nikon announced a new CoolScan that would be better and easier to use, but...

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Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

The early rumors were pitting microsoft's new, yet to be announced application against Photoshop. How wrong the pundits were. Microsoft's new PhotoDraw 2000 is a quite different approach to a graphics and photo application because Microsoft...

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Help
Robert E. Mayer  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

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BEFORE WRITING TO HELP!

The volume of letters to this column is increasing every month. To be
able to continue to offer this service, we need your cooperation.

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Digital Darkroom
GrayScales
B&W From A Color Printer
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

A few years ago the manufacturers of ink jet printers were struggling in order to make printers that could lay down very tiny dots--very close together. During those days if you tried to make a black and white print, it tended to look a little grainy...

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Pro Techniques
Getting Started
Pro Tips For Platinum Printing
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

"The tone he produces on rough platinotype paper by skillful printing and carefully aged mercury baths cannot be reproduced by any mechanical process."
--George Bernard Shaw on the photographs of Frederick Evans

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Field Test
The High-Res, High Quality Landscape Image
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

When a writer friend heard
that photographer Les Jörgensen takes landscape and location photographs
using a high-resolution digital back on a view camera, and goes into
the field with a computer, batteries, battery...

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Expand Your Horizons
Consider New Film Developer Combinations
Jay Abend  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

One of the truly liberating aspects of shooting black and white film is the relatively low cost of setting up and maintaining your own darkroom. When moving to a new studio recently, I was forced to break down my existing darkroom and consider whether to...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Working In Cross Platform Environments
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

"Sometimes I feel
like f/5.6 in a f/2.8 world."

--Gene Jones

Regardless of which computer
platform you work on, sooner or latersom...

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