Joe Farace

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How Safe Are Your CDs; What You Do Not See Can Say A Lot
Joe Farace  |  Jul 01, 2002

"The ultimate security is your
understanding of reality."--H. Stanley Judd

Now that CD and even DVD burners
are commonplace in photographers' digital darkrooms, many people take
itf...

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How would You Like To Write An e Book
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2002

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

All kinds of photographers, from amateurs to aspiring pros to professionals, are using e-books to share their...

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Image Capture Revisited
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2001

Proving that in digital imaging, like the rest of photography "there are no absolutes," I've been forced to re-examine my original contention that there are just three major phases of digital imaging. To my original trifecta of image...

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Imaging And Your Health
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2000

Because of the huge amount
of equipment photographers lug around some of us are cursed with back
and feet problems. Since digital imaging, especially the postproduction
aspects, seems more passive you might think thatth...

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Imaging With Mac OS X
Live From San Francisco Its A Mac World Expo 2002
Joe Farace  |  May 01, 2002

"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."--Marshall McLuhan

Home to a diverse, inquisitive people who openly embrace the "differently"-ness of Macintosh computers, San Francisco is the perfect...

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Is There A Correct Way To Make A Photograph? Of Course Not, And Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise!
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2006

"Crankshaft: I want to buy a camera. Photo clerk: Digital? Crankshaft: No I plan to operate it with my toes."
--"Crankshaft" comic strip

Steve Kennedy is a photographer, automobile expert, and author of Jaguar: The Classic Marque (

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Isn’t It Ironic? The End Of Kodak’s Black And White Photo Paper
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2005

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
--Robert Heinlein

After 100 years, Eastman Kodak has stopped making black and white photographic paper that the Associated Press called "a niche product for fine art photographers and hobbyists..." I don't think there is any such thing as "fine...

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It's A Brave New World
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2000

As digital imaging technology matures, trends are beginning to emerge. For digital cameras these trends are going in several different directions. Higher resolutions at lower prices mean that the image quality gap between professional field cameras is...

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It’s National Hardware Month...Again; Gizmos, Gadgets, And Widgets, Oh My!
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2005

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."--Ernst Haas

Whenever I rant about how it's the photographer's vision not the hardware that's important for creating memorable images, I'm reminded of when I was younger and shooting pictures with a well-used...

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Looking At The Past, Looking Into The Future
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 1999

"Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe?"--Leonardo da Vinci's comments on the Camera Obscura

Like many digital imagers, I'm...

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