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F/8 And Be There… Or Not Film + Digital = Photograph
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

The biggest challenge when photographing cars at auto shows--indoors or out--is dealing with cluttered backgrounds. In the past I've used low angles, high angles and postproduction techniques to blur the setting and add some zoom-zoom. That approach shifted my focus from the subject to its surroundings...

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Natural Selections; Gil Lopez-Espina’s Brand-New Blank Canvas
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 01, 2005

Photos © 2004, Gil Lopez-Espina, All Rights Reserved

No matter how far we get from the starting point, there's always something that calls us back. Early influences, first goals, original career choices--they all have a way of hanging around at the edges, only to show up strong somewhere down the line.

That happened recently...

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Sky Swapping Your Way To A Beautiful Landscape
How To Mix And Match Skies To Banish The Blah-Sky Syndrome
Jeff Wignall  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Jeff Wignall, All Rights Reserved

I'd be a rich man if I had a buck for every time I've stumbled upon a great landscape scene only to mutter to myself (and anyone else within earshot), "What a horrible sky." There's something entirely deflating about finding an interesting foreground scene with a sky the color of aged...

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Backing Up Is Easy To Do
Maxtor’s OneTouch II Drive
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005

I just got a call from a digital photographer we all know and who is one of the pioneers and chief practitioners of the craft. He related the awful tale that we hear all too often these days--that his computer crashed and all the data on his hard drive was gone. Luckily, he had been backing up all along, on CDs and a separate hard drive.

If...

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Digital Darkroom
Blur Your Backgrounds For Better Candid Portraits
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, George Schaub, All Rights Reserved

Software Used: Photoshop Elements 2

Time: 3 Minutes

Degree Of Difficulty: Moderate

When you make candid portraits you don't always have the time or the disposition to use aperture settings for a shallow depth of field (where the subject...

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eTest: Top 10 Reasons You Want A Digital Rangefinder Camera; Shooting With Epson’s R-D1
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

· Epson R-D1 Quick Look
· Compact
· $2995 (Street price)
· Real world viewing

Further Information
Epson R-D1
http://www.epson.com

The Epson...

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Master Class
Master Class
Monte On Stage At New York’s PhotoPlus Show; Improvisation, Agility, And Going With What You Know
Monte Zucker  |  Mar 01, 2005

Photos © 2004, Monte Zucker, All Rights Reserved

Picture this: You're in the golden era of your life. You're at the top of your professional career. Your reputation as a significant portrait photographer and teacher is as solid as ever, even after being in the profession for over 50 years. You're appearing in New York City for Canon at one of the...

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Family Photography How ToFamily Tips
Photographing Kids; Stacy Bratton Shows You How
Lynne Eodice  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © Stacy Bratton

 

There's more to taking kid pictures than meets the eye--just ask Stacy Bratton. A sought-after photographer from Dallas, Texas, she specializes in photographing children ranging in age from newborns up to 12-year-olds. "My goal is to capture the magic of childhood," she says. Her portraits highlight children's...

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Printing Large: How Big Can You Go? A Sampling Of Resampling Programs
Jon Canfield  |  Mar 01, 2005

As the price of wide format photo printers like the ones offered by Epson, Canon, and HP continues to come down, more and more digital photo enthusiasts are adding them to their digital darkrooms. For less than $400, you can now print photo quality 11x14" images (actually, up to 13x19), saving money and time without sending these prints out to a photo lab.

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Making Digital Contact Sheets From Negatives; A Hybrid Solution For The Film/Digital Photographer
Joel Simpson  |  Mar 01, 2005

With labs charging from $8-$12 or more per color contact sheet, you can save the cash by doing them in your own computer darkroom studio. Moreover, this process gives you working digital images of entire rolls that you can inspect close-up on your monitor. As digital image files you can mark them up on screen, adjust orientation (horizontal/vertical), excerpt selections to send as...

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