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Covering The Photo Beat; Camera Bags, Photo Albums, And A Hinged Camera Level
C.A. Boylan  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Tamrac’s Ultra Pro 13 Shoulder Bag
Designed for the photographer on the move, the Ultra Pro 13 shoulder bag is large enough to safely accommodate a wide variety of photographic gearand a laptop computer. It features an EasyGrip handlewith a built-in Torsion Bar to distribute the weight, a Double Lens-Bridge Divider System, a padded BioCurve shoulder strap, a...

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Pro Techniques
Post-Processing Lightens The Load; Raw Conversion As A Studio Tool
Fred Collins  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

When I think about all of the photography equipment I have added to my collection over the years—cameras, lenses, lights—I would have to put my finger on the raw conversion window in Photoshop as probably the most effective tool I currently have for making my images look good. It has even lightened the load in terms of the amount of equipment I use for taking the shot in the first...

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Picture This
Picture This!
Backlight: Stained Glass To Fall Foliage And More
Staff  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Our Picture This! assignment this month was “Backlight,” and readers responded with images that spoke of the wonders of light in this, perhaps the most challenging but many times the most rewarding, lighting condition. Many of the images brought back the words of the filmmaker Werner Herzog, who I will paraphrase here, when he said that images are our way of bearing witness to the...

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Passport
Rx For Travel; Take Two Zooms And Call Me When You’re Confident
Jack Hollingsworth  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

You read this magazine. You’re reading this column right now. So I’m thinking that you’ve got your act together. You keep up with the new gear; you pick up tips and techniques, ideas and inspiration. Your skills are sharp and you know what you need to get the pictures you want to get. So when you go out to shoot this summer, you’re going to go with one camera body, maybe...

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Online Storage; You Might Need It, But Take Care—It Can Bite You!
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

You don’t need a back-up drive, you need a back-up plan. Backing up image data is an attitude, not an accessory. I preach the Three Rs of File Safety; to be effective, your back-up storage solution must be Regular, Reliable, and Redundant.

High-capacity external hard drives cost less than a steak dinner these days. And you can buy a name brand 4x...

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Pro Techniques
Tales From The Dark Side; Stephen King, Meet Chris Alvanas
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Dear Mr. King,
When I saw Chris Alvanas’s HDR (High Dynamic Range) photographs, my first thought was, they could be covers of Stephen King novels. They held mystery and more than a hint of menace; they suggested a story that would keep me turning pages long into the night.

What’s HDR photography? It’s a technique that makes possible...

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Jon Sienkiewicz Blog
Five Things That Are Bad For Cameras
Jon Sienkiewicz Blog  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Summer's almost here, and we made our annual May jaunt to the Jersey Shore. The full name of the park we call Sandy Hook is "Gateway National Recreation Area." As far as we're concerned, it has everything anyone could ask for: several of the white sand beaches New Jersey is famous for, deserted military bunkers, miles of bike trails and a light house. Plus it's nearby and never seems overcrowded.

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Help!
Robert E. Mayer  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  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 subject header and your return...

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Pro Techniques
The Night Time Is The Right Time; Low-Light City Photography
Fredrik Froman  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

When most people are getting their best sleep and the early birds are cuddling in their warm beds or having their first cup of coffee, low-light photographers get their best pictures. There is nothing like standing in a big city in the middle of the night before the city wakes up and shooting low-light photography. I love the feeling of experiencing something not everybody sees. If you...

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Editor's Notes
Perception And Processing
George Schaub  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments

“Photographers owe nothing to reality.”—Fred Picker, 1988

An image sits in front of you on the monitor, something you caught on some stroll or an intentional trip into some world space that you wanted to share with the rest of the inhabitants, and there is something right about it and something wrong, something you missed along the way or that dropped out from...

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