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Blue Pixel Presents Nature’s Best Photography Experience
Shutterbug Staff  |  Mar 28, 2006  | 

Blue Pixel Presents Nature's Best Photography Experience

Led By Award-Winning Photographer Daniel J. Cox

Nature's Best Photography™ Experience is a Unique Educational
and Instructional Event Appropriate for Digital Photographers of All Experience
Levels

Blue Pixel, the world's leading digital...

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Blue Pixel’s Pro Digital Workflow Seminars are the Perfect Complement to Digital SLR Holiday Gifts
Shutterbug Staff  |  Jan 30, 2007  | 

Blue Pixel's Pro Digital Workflow Seminars are the Perfect Complement
to Digital SLR Holiday Gifts

Professional Photographers and High-Level Amateurs Will Learn to Maximize
Digital Workflow with the Fewest Steps



Excited
to use your new digital SLR camera, but confused about where to start? Learn
how toge...

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Book Excerpt: Christopher Grey’s Vintage Lighting: The Digital Photographer’s Guide To Portrait Lighting Techniques From 1910 To 1970
Christopher Grey  |  May 20, 2013  | 
In his latest book, Vintage Lighting (Amherst Media, 128 pages, $34.95; ISBN-13: 978-1-60895-221-2), pro photographer Christopher Grey shows how to capture the lighting techniques of bygone eras with today’s cameras, light sources and postproduction tools. Spanning the period 1910 through 1970, from Edwardian through “Hollywood” to Pop and the Sixties, he shows in imagery and text how to recreate the many lighting styles, poses and props this exciting period in portraiture produced, finishing up with some digital processing techniques to help you enhance your images even more. In this excerpt, we look at his take on the Edwardian Era.—Editor
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Book Excerpt: Rethinking Digital Photography: Making & Using Traditional & Contemporary Photo Tools
John Neel  |  May 20, 2013  | 
Digital opens visual doors, and John Neel walks through many of them in his new book, Rethinking Digital Photography. This 240-page book is filled with ideas and experiments that encompass both historic film approaches and leading-edge software techniques, including how-to building guides for gadgets and hybrid imaging devices, using odd and wonderful software to build unique images and adapting items such as toy camera lenses into your work. In all, it’s a great visual workout and idea book that breaks out of the traditional digital how-to book mold. In this excerpt, Neel takes us through techniques combining panoramic shooting and using software filters to create “planets.”—Editor
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Bowens Espirit Gemini Flash System
George Schaub  |  Apr 25, 2006  | 

The Gemini kit is composed of two flash heads (monoblocs) and a Gemini Battery
set, as well as a strong duffle-bag like carrying case and stands for the heads.
We worked with the 500WS heads, although the kit comes in both 250WS and 750WS
units as well. The supplied stands come with an "L" bracket that
all...

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Bracketing And Processing Multiple Exposures
 |  May 26, 2009  | 

Exposure Tips

Bracketing And Processing Multiple Exposures

George Schaub

One technique to expand the dynamic range potential of an image, in other words, to overcome contrast problems, is to make a number of exposures at different settings of the same scene and combine them later to pull the best out of each exposure.Ther...

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Breaking the Four-Minute Mile
Ron Leach  |  Mar 28, 2006  | 

Breaking the Four-Minute Mile



By Ron Leach, Publisher

We recently returned from the 2006 PMA Convention and Trade Show in Orlando,
FL--the largest annual international trade show in our industry. With over
600 exhibitors, 20,000 attendees, and more than 200 educational sessions, this
four-day event is pretty much a "must...

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Breakthrough in Color Printing Technology
Ron Leach  |  Sep 14, 2012  | 
Researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have used stained glass as the inspiration to develop a unique method of creating sharp, full-spectrum color images at 100,000 dots per inch (dpi) without the need for inks or dyes. In comparison, existing industrial inkjet and laserjet printers only achieve 10,000 dpi, while research-grade methods can only dispense dyes for single-color images.
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Bringing It All Back Home
 |  Jan 27, 2009  | 

Commentary

Bringing It All Back Home

by George Schaub

Can Anyone Make a Camera Here in the Good Ol’ USA?

Can you name the last camera made here in the USA? I have been at this game for a while and am hard pressed to come up with an answer. You might think it was a Kodak, but they gave up the work years...

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Buying A Lens; Tips On Making The Right Choices
Jim Zuckerman  |  Jun 16, 2011  |  First Published: Jun 28, 2011  | 
After you buy a good camera that allows you to change lenses, it will become obvious to you that it is not the camera that enables you to be creative in photography. It is the lenses. The features on your camera, like fast auto focus, a large LCD screen, accurate Metering modes, and various custom functions are all important, but it is the lenses that have everything to do with the artistry of the images you take.
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Camera and Printing Trends
 |  Nov 28, 2006  | 

Camera and Printing Trends


By Ron Leach, Publisher

When industry mavens put on their thinking caps in an attempt to gauge the
future direction of the photographic industry, they typically start by analyzing
trends in camera sales. Then they quantify the resulting data into various demographic
segments and product categories. In that regard,t...

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Camera Phones Coming of Age
 |  Oct 27, 2009  | 

Industry Perspective

Camera Phones Coming of Age

by Ron Leach

Most “serious” photographers own at least one pocket-size digital camera so that they’re always prepared to capture an interesting scene—even if their trusty SLR is back home in the camera cabinet. That means many of us go about ourdaily...

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Camera phones or Phone Cameras?
Ron Leach  |  Aug 22, 2012  | 
For the past few years we’ve watched the popularity of camera phones grow exponentially, as devices on the Android and Apple iOS platforms have offered more and more features, higher resolution cameras, and the ability to download a myriad of both free and paid apps of interest to photographers and the general consumer.

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Camera Settings For Black And White: Shoot Raw And Do It Later, Or Shot JPEG And Lock It In
George Schaub  |  Dec 18, 2013  | 
Think of a digital camera as a microprocessor with a lens. Along with doing all the things a camera does there is an immense amount of image processing that goes on inside before the image is recorded on the memory card. There are many ways to change the character of an image using the camera’s processor.
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Can Photography Save the World?
 |  Jan 26, 2010  | 

Industry Perspective

Can Photography Save the World?

by Ron Leach

Ten years ago PBS debuted a moving documentary entitled “American Photography: A
Century of Images.” The program traced photography’s profound influence upon life in
America, and I recall being particularly struck by thecamera&rsqu...

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