Portraiture

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Wedding & Portraiture
Finding Beauty Where You Least Expect It
Monte Zucker  |  Apr 01, 1999  | 

Teaching photography to Carnival Cruise Line photographers has given me an opportunity that few people have in their lifetime. I spend weeks at a time cruising on the world's greatest fleet of ships to some of the world's most incredibly...

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Portraiture
Takin' It To The Streets
Mark Bolster's Portrait Challenge
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 01, 1999  | 

Among the things that people fear, psychologists tell us that giving a speech is number one, coming even before death or taxes or the appointment of a special prosecutor. But ask amateur photographers about their fears, and we'd bet a lot of them...

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The Stealth Portrait
Blending In With Sven Martson
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 01, 1999  | 

A portrait is "a pictorial
representation," according to our dictionary. Right, but a bit
limited for our purposes; a snapshot is a pictorial representation,
but we ask a portrait to carry a bit morefreight.

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Portraiture
Raphael Noz
Self-Portraits With Strangers
Rosalind Smith  |  Mar 01, 1999  | 

People come and go in Raphael
Noz's photographs, unaware that the strange, little man holding
an object out in front of him is taking their picture. He encounters
his subjects crossing a street, at a bus stop, ori...

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Portraiture
People At Work
Available Light Portraits
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 1999  | 

Over the years, photographers have come up with a lot of clever names for "available light." When working under less than ideal lighting condition, you'll hear some people call it "available darkness" or "unavailable...

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Important Milestone
Photographing The High School Senior
Steve Bedell  |  Mar 01, 1999  | 

I've been doing photography of high school seniors for over 20 years. When I first started, I wasn't that much older than they were, but, of course, they stay the same age every year while I get a year older with each new batch. Seniors are a...

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Wedding And Portraiture
Black And White--Its The In Thing
Monte Zucker  |  Feb 01, 1999  | 

Black and white pictures are no big deal--at least for me. I started in black and white many years ago, but was thrilled to get out of the darkroom when color became the "in" thing.

Now that black and white has had a...

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Photojournalistic Wedding
Try B&W For Your Candids
Steve Bedell  |  Feb 01, 1999  | 

What started as a trickle has become a full-fledged stream. Just a few years back, black and white candids were unheard of at weddings. Then, as the visually sophisticated public began seeing how distinctive black and white photos looked in the ads in...

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Wedding & Portraiture
Create Your Own Outdoor Portrait Studio
Monte Zucker  |  Jan 01, 1999  | 

Portraits can be created outdoors in just about any environment. The key is to learn how to make just about any lighting situation work for you. Sometimes, when you choose your background you might find yourself photographing your subject in direct...

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Wedding And Portraiture
Unlimited Vision With Medium Format
Monte Zucker  |  Jan 01, 1998  | 

My Hasselblad gives me unlimited vision. "Ideal" is another way of putting it. I never have to think or compose any of my images to fit into a pre-prescribed format. Horizontal? Vertical? Things I never have to consider. Cropping? Why not...

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