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10 Low-Light Photo Tips
The Editors  |  Oct 01, 2003

Ways to be bright when it gets dark.

Low-light photography can yield some amazingly striking and unusual images. But it also presents a problem. You need a fast enough shutter speed to prevent camera-shake-induced image blurring, and sometimes to "freeze" a moving subject. You often need to shoot at a small enough aperture to provide adequate depth of field. You want to use the...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Digicams Are Not New
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

"History repeats itself; that's one of the things wrong with history."--Clarence Darrow

In February 1990, I wrote a story for the now-defunct Photomethods magazine...

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The Darkroom
The Darkroom: Strip, Clean, And Overhaul
Frances E. Schultz  |  Oct 01, 2003

"A house is a machine for living."--Le Corbusier

Any machine needs maintenance. Here's how I maintain my darkroom: a "strip, clean, and overhaul" in...

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Classic Camera Reviews
Classic Cameras
Voigtlander Bessa
Roger W. Hicks  |  Oct 01, 2003

Anyone who reads Shutterbug regularly will know of my enthusiasm for modern Voigtländer cameras. I'm also extremely fond of the postwar Prominent 35mm leaf-shutter rangefinder camera, and I have a great (though guarded) admiration for its prewar 120 namesake, one of the most...

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Business Trends
Business Trends
Lighting Your Way To Success
Maria Piscopo  |  Oct 01, 2003

I never really believed in the term "overnight success" in photography that is, until I met one. Patrick Ecclesine's (www.ecclesine.com) achievements took actually a week or two and they were...

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Bowens 9Lite System
Hot Portraits With Cold Lights
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

The Bowens 9Lite is designed specifically for digital photography and gets its name from the nine fluorescent pigtail tubes that screw into its main housing. Like Bowens Tri-Lite (see sidebar "Photographing Small Products") these are cold hot lights and each lamp head contains nine...

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Pro Techniques
Both Sides Now
Bruce Myren Looks At The Pros And Cons Of The Digital World
Rosalind Smith  |  Oct 01, 2003

Bruce Myren, photographer, digital guru, and dedicated artist, is often cast in the role of the assistant who doesn't carry lights or equipment. He quietly trails into a shoot behind some of the area's top pros who don't happen to shoot...

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Web Profiles
Web Profiles
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2003

Scavenging For Images
Ya gotta love a site named Image Scavenger (www.imagescavenger.com). Behind its whimsical homepage, photographer Merrill C. Anderson has collected images that...

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The Microscopic World Of Sal Lopes
Images Of Worlds Often Hidden To Our Eyes
Rosalind Smith  |  Sep 01, 2003

The objects in Sal Lopes' latest photographs reveal themselves in surprising ways. Objects that appear insignificant to the naked eye become multidimensional as they unfold in full splendor in the darkroom. In one macro photograph a tiny rock takes...

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Digital Darkroom
The Digital Darkroom
Using Photoshop Styles
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Sep 01, 2003

As some of you may already know, when you install Photoshop not all of the application is immediately loaded. There are many features and options that require further attention to become accessible. Photoshop "Styles" is one of those...

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