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Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

My favorite scene in the film Lawrence of Arabia is when Peter O'Toole, as Lawrence, looks out onto the desert landscape and watches a rider riding slowly toward him. It turns out to be Omar Sharif but the encounter is made more dramatic by the widescreen format.

There are a lot of ways to make panoramic images, including cropping standard...

Roger W. Hicks  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Canon's 50mm f/1.2 in Leica screwmount (39mm x 26 tpi) is something of a legend. Introduced in 1957/58, it is very fast and today it is relatively affordable. The main alternatives, after all, are either Leica Noctiluxes (the 50mm f/1.2, 1966, discontinued, or the 50mm f/1, 1967, still current) or two vanishingly rare lenses introduced in 1955, the 50mm f/1.1 Nikkor and...

Maria Piscopo  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Herrmann + Starke (www.HSstudio.com) began working digitally in 1994 and by '97 stopped shooting film entirely. They have specialized in producing still life and lifestyle photography for advertising and have won many awards for their work. They also give seminars at programs such as Photo Pro Expo, the HOW Design...

Jim Miotke  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Professional photographer Bryan F. Peterson splits his time between Seattle, Washington, and Lyon, France. He recently revised two best-selling how-to books, Understanding Exposure and Learning to See Creatively. Peterson also teaches online photography courses at www.BetterPhoto.com. In our discussion, we explored how...

Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

"Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up Never give up the fight."--Bob Marley

Recently Mary and I were strolling around a local outdoor mall and I was making some pictures of the landscaping with my recently infrared-converted Canon EOS 20D (www.irdigital.net). Within...

Jon Canfield  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Wacom has a long history of providing quality tools for graphic professionals with their graphic tablets. If you've never used a pen and tablet for photo editing you are missing out on a level of control that a mouse just can't provide. Lesser known were the Cintiq line of LCD displays that feature tablet functionality directly on the screen. Expensive and with fewer...

Shutterbug Staff  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

I count this image among my best not because of the "aha" I felt as I dashed across a busy Tucson, Arizona, street before the sun could move another inch. It was only after I had several shots stowed safely in my Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II that I realized what I had actually found.

The first aha was seeing those nine "wanderers in the desert" from...

Jay McCabe  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

It starts with the website, which is a key element in wedding photographer John Solano's business. John's goal is to be pre-sold before the client even meets him. "The ideal is that I don't have to show them a picture," John says. "I do that, of course, but the work kind of sells itself, and if they've seen it already, the selling is...

C.A. Boylan  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Cats 24/7: Extraordinary Photographs Of Wonderful Cats; by Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, Chronicle Books; 192 pages; $24.95; (ISBN 0-8118-4815-9) & Dogs 24/7: Extraordinary Photographs Of Wonderful Dogs; 192 pages; $24.95; (ISBN 0-8118-4816-7)
This book happily celebrates the special bond we have with cats who share our homes. It contains over 500...

Chris Maher and Larry Berman  |  Sep 01, 2005  |  0 comments

If you are serious about photography, there are two things that you will always want to do. One is to be able to shoot whenever a picture opportunity presents itself, and the second is to show your best images to others. Surprisingly, the best way to accomplish both of those goals may be one of the tiny pocket cameras like the Casio EXILIM EX-Z55 or Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W5. If you...

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