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“Hey, Look At The Sky!”
Staff  |  Oct 01, 2009

Our Picture This! assignment for this month was “Hey, Look at the Sky!” Readers sent in brilliant images from all around the world of sunset and dawn, of threatening storm clouds, and of fascinating configurations of clouds. In most cases the images included the ground as the anchor on which the sky was tied, and the interaction of reflections and color cast added to the amazing...

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“Photograph It Now, Next Time Through It Might Be Gone!”
Staff  |  Mar 01, 2010

Our Picture This! assignment this month asked readers to submit images made of objects that most likely would not be around next time they passed by. Readers sent in images of falling-down barns, commercial signs, and trucks quietly rusting away in fields. To paraphrase Walker Evans, photographers should shoot with history in mind, and with many of these objects the only evidence of their...

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America The Beautiful
Shutterbug Staff  |  Oct 01, 2003

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Group Portraits

Ever since photography began people have been lining up, or have been posed, in the...

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Color Play
Shutterbug Staff  |  Jun 01, 2003

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America The Beautiful

W e thought we'd celebrate our nation's...

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Colorful Cars
Shutterbug Staff  |  Dec 01, 2003

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Winterscapes:

The Beauty Of The Season

Harsh though it may be, winter affords...

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Found Still Life
Shutterbug Staff  |  Jan 01, 2004

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Signs Of The Times

Signs, placards, and posters are like captions on the real world. They are the unavoidable text that leap out and put a literal...

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Pan It
Shutterbug Staff  |  Aug 01, 2003

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Colorful Cars

Our next Picture This! assignment is "Colorful...

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Seascapes
Shutterbug Staff  |  Nov 01, 2003

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Fill Flash

Flash isn't just for lighting up a dark room--it's a great tool to use...

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Shallow Depth Of Field
Shutterbug Staff  |  Sep 01, 2003

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Found Still Life

Some photographers spend hours (and days) in their studio arranging objects for...

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Unlikely Combos
Shutterbug Staff  |  Jul 01, 2003

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Seascapes

The convergence of sky, water, and land always makes for great photo...

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Red!: Our Favorite Reader Photos from the Picture This Assignment
Staff  |  Feb 03, 2015

Our Picture This! assignment this month really made everyone see Red. We were looking for images where the predominant color is red, or where a red accent makes a powerful statement within the frame. Perhaps the boldest color, red always catches the eye and many images entered for the assignment were just that: bold and eye-catching. We were also looking for images where other colors complemented and enhanced the presence of red within the frame. On the next few pages check out the photos we thought screamed Red the loudest.

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Reflections: Our 10 Favorite Photos from Shutterbug Readers
The Editors  |  Mar 08, 2018

When you really start to look for them, you’ll find reflections everywhere. For this assignment, we wanted you to capture reflections in a way that brought out their beauty and art.

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Rich And Color-Full
Staff  |  Oct 03, 2014
Our Picture This! assignment this month was Rich and Color-Full, and we asked readers to submit images that displayed an intense play of richly endowed images, with vividness married to content and that also showed how photographers see and interpret our many-hued world. Readers responded with everything from natural to man-made subjects. While we accepted some “juicing” using hue and saturation controls, we tried to pick those that did not stray too far from what the eye and camera could record.
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Sense Of Scale
Staff  |  Nov 16, 2011  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2011
Composition dictates that we place a frame around the world before us. The lens we use, the depth-of-field effect we choose, and most importantly the elements of the scene we choose to include and exclude make up the final image. There are numerous compositional gambits, including sense of scale, where we include familiar elements in a scene to help establish size, distance, and, metaphorically, our sense of importance, or lack of same, of the object or subject used to establish that sense of scale.
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Sense Of Scale
Staff  |  Dec 20, 2013  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2013
A sense of scale is created by the juxtaposition of objects and subjects within the frame that establishes a size relationship based upon that juxtaposition. That sense of scale can be based upon distance, on the “true” relative sizes of the elements, or on the use of optics that exaggerate the relative sizes through near-to-far relationships that are established with the clever use of depth of field. While wide-angle lenses are most suited to creating the latter effect, in fact the setup can be made with virtually any lens, given a certain point of view of the photographer. In most cases a deep depth of field works best, since the mind can better grasp the intention when all objects within the frame are sharp. Readers sent in a wide range of images, some almost surreal and others that showed an awesome world in which we are merely the smallest of spectators.
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