Joe Farace

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Digital Innovations
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Networking: It Is For Everybody
Joe Farace  |  Nov 01, 2003

"Computers = Ticket To Hell."--the back of an Alien Skin Software T-shirt

Recently I received a press release from a high-tech company hyping "an event announcing a...

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First Look
Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite
Joe Farace  |  Nov 01, 2003

Photographers, as a group, are far from united in their view of the role Adobe Systems' Photoshop plays in the imaging process. Some believe that many of Photoshop's creative tools are designed for "photographers who don't know how to take pictures correctly" or...

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Web Profiles
Be Thankful For Friends
Joe Farace  |  Nov 01, 2003

Almost Heaven
Bruce K. Haley is a West Virginia photographer whose elegantly understated website (www.bkhaley.com) forms a perfect vehicle for his work. The galleries section (note the lower-case...

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Bowens 9Lite System
Hot Portraits With Cold Lights
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

The Bowens 9Lite is designed specifically for digital photography and gets its name from the nine fluorescent pigtail tubes that screw into its main housing. Like Bowens Tri-Lite (see sidebar "Photographing Small Products") these are cold hot lights and each lamp head contains nine...

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Digicams Are Not New
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

"History repeats itself; that's one of the things wrong with history."--Clarence Darrow

In February 1990, I wrote a story for the now-defunct Photomethods magazine...

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Web Profiles
The Photographers Eye
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

Travel Photography With A Big Difference
Glen Allison (www.glenallison.com) is a LA-based travel photographer whose imagery captures the...

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Web Profiles
Web Profiles
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2003

Scavenging For Images
Ya gotta love a site named Image Scavenger (www.imagescavenger.com). Behind its whimsical homepage, photographer Merrill C. Anderson has collected images that...

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A Myth Is As Good As A Mile
Wash And Wear Memory Cards
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2003

"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."--John Cameron Swayze on Timex

A story oft told in photofinishing circles and one that is, perhaps, apocryphal goes like this: A customer...

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Web Profiles
Web Profiles
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2003

Joe Constantino's web site (www.joecphotography.com) is an eclectic collection of four galleries wrapped around a killer, low-key design by Jay Groden. The site is exclusively in black and white, with hints...

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Black And White And Read All Over
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2003

Digital Innovations

"Everything looks worse in black and white..."--Paul Simon's Kodachrome

I think Paul Simon is wrong, but...

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