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Candid Camera
Casio’s Exilim Card EX-S100
George Schaub  |  May 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, George Schaub, All Rights Reserved

Dubbed "the world's smallest optical zoom digital camera," the Casio Exilim Card EX-S100 is business-card size at a mere 0.66" thick and just 3.46" at its longest dimension. But despite its size the EX-S100 yields excellent color files from its 3.2-megapixel chip and has a whopping...

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Canon’s EOS-1Ds Mark II
The Digital SLR Big Shot
George Schaub  |  May 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, George Schaub, All Rights Reserved

About a year ago I called up a stock agency to whom I'd been submitting 35mm and 6x7 slides for years and told them I was considering sending digital files. "Oh, don't worry about that, we scan your slides for you," they kindly replied. No, I told them, I want to start submitting files made...

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Editor's Notes
The Fine Art Of Portrait Photography
George Schaub  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

The portrait is one of the most demanding of all photographic tasks. We are asked to capture the character of a person in the brief, fleeting moment it takes to make an exposure. Painters seem to have the advantage, being able to take hours or days to render their impressions. They can block out forms and fill in the light and shadow as they see fit. What do we have to contend...

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Sigma’s EM-140 DG Flash
Lord Of The Rings
George Schaub  |  Mar 22, 2005  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Photos © 2004, George Schaub, All Rights Reserved

If you enjoy exploring the fascinating world of close-up photography you should consider a ring flash as an essential part of your creative kit. A ring flash mounts around your taking lens and eliminates problems associated with standard shoe-mount flash and even off-camera flash, mainly the inability to down-angle the...

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Digital Darkroom
Blur Your Backgrounds For Better Candid Portraits
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005  |  0 comments

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Software Used: Photoshop Elements 2

Time: 3 Minutes

Degree Of Difficulty: Moderate

When you make candid portraits you don't always have the time or the disposition to use aperture settings for a shallow depth of field (where the subject...

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Editor's Notes
Memory And The Medium
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Memory is an odd process. Recollections can be triggered by a certain muscle movement, a dream, a flash of color or shape as we walk down the street, a shift in the wind or, more concretely, by a photographic image. In all, memory is an associative process, in that some catalyst seems to create a circuit in the mind that refers to something real, or imagined, in our past. We all...

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Backing Up Is Easy To Do
Maxtor’s OneTouch II Drive
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005  |  0 comments

I just got a call from a digital photographer we all know and who is one of the pioneers and chief practitioners of the craft. He related the awful tale that we hear all too often these days--that his computer crashed and all the data on his hard drive was gone. Luckily, he had been backing up all along, on CDs and a separate hard drive.

If...

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Sigma’s 24-60mm f/2.8 EX DG
Wide Zoom For Film, Moderate Wide Zoom For Digital
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Note the "EX DG" appellation in this new Sigma lens. This signifies a lens that you can use for both film and digital photography, as opposed to Sigma's "EX DC" branding, which can only be used with digital SLRs. The difference is in the image circle each projects. Use a "DC" lens on a film camera and you'll have serious...

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Fuji FinePix F810; Get The Wider View
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005  |  0 comments

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Further Information
Fuji FinePix F810
www.fujifilm.com

There's something about a wide angle view that attracts the eye. Wide screen TVs, the continued popularity of panorama images (and their attempted resuscitation every few years...

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Canon EOS 20D
The Canon Digital SLR Continues To Evolve
George Schaub  |  Feb 01, 2005  |  0 comments

All Photos © 2004, George Schaub, All Rights Reserved

One of the main benefits of SLR photography is that it allows you to make quick decisions and respond to what's happening in front of you with your heart, mind, and guts without fumbling around. It allows you to apply what you've learned about making pictures immediately, and is an instinctive response to...

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