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Wild Horses: Lisa Cueman Celebrates Their Survival
Jay McCabe  |  Jun 12, 2014  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2014  | 

To photograph the wild horses of the Outer Banks of North Carolina you have to deal with the fact that they are indeed wild and thus not particularly welcoming of a photographer’s attention.
But first you have to deal with the Outer Banks, a 200-mile stretch of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. “It’s important to have an awareness of time, tide, and weather,” Lisa Cueman says of the location. “You can get into your photography, but not so much that you lose a sense of your surroundings.”

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Abstracting From Nature
Rosalind Smith  |  Mar 01, 1999  | 

If you ask Grace Hopkins-Lisle
where the greatest influence on her photography lies, she will probably
answer, "right here"--here being a small, odd-shaped, cement
house set pretty among trees at the end ofa...

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Christine Triebert's Career--A Balancing Act
Rosalind Smith  |  May 01, 1999  | 

Christine Triebert was looking
for a different way to photograph the landscape, an alternative process
that would be more subjective in nature, more abstract. She wanted to
continue working in silver since it would give...

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Claire Yaffa Portrays Hard Hitting Issues
Rosalind Smith  |  Feb 01, 1999  | 

When Claire Yaffa showed
her photographs to Cornell Capa, he said, "You take pretty pictures,
Yaffa, but what do you really want to say?" Yaffa thought long
and hard about the question. She had always beenin...

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Karin Rosenthal--A Passion For The Human Form
Rosalind Smith  |  Jul 01, 1999  | 

"Your camera is like
a Geiger counter. It takes you to the right place. When it faces something
that doesn't interest you, there is no tick-ticking, but when
it faces something you like, it is tickingaway....

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Marnie Crawford Samuelson
Rosalind Smith  |  Jun 01, 1999  | 

Marnie Crawford Samuelson
recalls one of her earliest influences, the photographer Sam Abell,
telling about a body of work he did on canoeing. His bosses were not
enthusiastic about the project initially but Abell hadst...

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XPan Scans; Tips And Tools For Digitizing Panoramic Film
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2005  | 

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...

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Zooming Around
Eight Reasons Why I Shoot With Zoom Lenses
Rick Sammon  |  Aug 01, 2002  | 

I'll never use a zoom lens." That's what some of my professional photographer friends said when I first got into photography back in the mid-70s. Back then, zoom lenses did not compare in sharpness to fixed focal length lenses. What's more, the zoom...

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