Jay Abend

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Breaking The Rules
Fresh Techniques For People Photography
Jay Abend  |  Apr 01, 2000

If you still think of portraits in terms of main light, fill light, and key light, I think you're missing out on some fresh and exciting techniques. While the classic studio portrait is still practiced by lots of amateurs and practically every...

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Pro Techniques
Building Great Photos
Compositing Multiple Frames To Create One Great Image
Jay Abend  |  Nov 01, 2002



Surreal Composites--A great technique is to take a collection of original images and combine them to create a fanciful and surreal final image. For this other-worldly desert scene I took four original film shots of...

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Calumet's LiteLink Radio Remote Trigger System
A Handy Way To Shoot Without Wires
Jay Abend  |  Oct 01, 2004

Shooting with powerful studio style flash units has always meant dealing with the dreadful PC sync cord. That horrible little PC sync connection on your camera hasn't changed much in the past 60 years, and it remains the least reliable link in the world of most studio photographers.

Like most pros, I adopted a strictly...

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Cambos Ultima 35
Jay Abend  |  Jan 01, 2004

As digital cameras continue to add more and more resolution at lower and lower prices, professional photographers are confronted with some daunting choices. Only a few years ago a working pro needed to pony up tens of thousands of dollars to get something...

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Canons 6.3 Megapixel Digital Rebel
Jay Abend  |  Dec 01, 2003

Did you feel it? Late in the summer of 2003 the ground shook, the earth trembled, the clouds parted, and a new vision was revealed. Well, maybe that's a bit dramatic. What did happen is another new digital camera was introduced. Big deal right? Huge...

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Catalog Photography
The MegaVision Digital Camera -- A Good Choice For Pros
Jay Abend  |  Mar 01, 2000

A little while ago a reader contacted the Shutterbug offices and asked one of the editors a seemingly simple question; "How do they shoot all of those mail-order catalogs that I get in the mail all the time?" They're always filled with...

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Classic Camera Reviews
Classic Digital Cameras
Kodak's Vintage DCS 520 Digital SLR Is Now A Bargain...
But Is Tech From 1999 Just Too Outdated?
Jay Abend  |  Mar 01, 2004

Without a doubt, 1998 was an important year for the digital camera industry. For it was in '98 that the first really good, really usable, really portable digital SLR camera hit the shelves. A joint venture between Japanese camera maker Canon and...

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Pro Techniques
Coming Of Age
A Professional Photographer Wins Clients With Digital Photography
Jay Abend  |  Jul 01, 1999

If you have been reading Shutterbug for some time, you're no doubt aware of the constant drumbeat of the digital photography industry. The products used to fall into two categories--expensive cameras that take frightfully bad pictures, or frightfully...

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Pro Techniques
Create Dynamic Effects
Soften Up Your Product Shots
Jay Abend  |  May 01, 1999

One of the things that many good photographers struggle with is sharpness. I have spent years of my life working on getting the most tack-sharp images, and have even written a few stories for your favorite magazine explaining some of the things that I do...

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Digital And The Pro
Jay Abend  |  May 01, 2003

Point Of View
Photography is a wide-ranging field that engenders passion in its practitioners, and like all great forms of expression creates opinions formed through experience and reflection. In its early days one...
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