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Outdoor/TravelPro Techniques
The Big Three
Techniques, Technology, And Psychology For Aspiring Travel Shooters
Rick Sammon  |  Apr 01, 1999  | 

Travel photographers are a unique breed. Some go to the ends of the earth to get pictures that tell a story of a faraway land. Others stay relatively close to home, documenting the pulse of a major metropolitan city--which might be a travel destination to...

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How To
Float Those Rings And Things
Bob Coates  |  Apr 01, 1999  | 

For those times when you want to isolate an object with a pleasing non-competing background, here is a system that will give you lots of options. It worked especially well when a client asked me to photograph individual pieces of jewelry to illustrate...

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Outdoor/TravelPro Techniques
For What It's Worth
Palm Beach--The Commercial Side
Steve Bedell  |  Apr 01, 1999  | 

Ah, Palm Beach. Just the mention of the name brings images of wealth and power to mind. Exotic cars, palatial estates, beautiful people, exclusive stores, and there's so much more--crystal skies, blue-green waters, the Intercoastal Waterway, yachts...

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Women In Photography
Abstracting From Nature
Rosalind Smith  |  Mar 01, 1999  | 

If you ask Grace Hopkins-Lisle
where the greatest influence on her photography lies, she will probably
answer, "right here"--here being a small, odd-shaped, cement
house set pretty among trees at the end ofa...

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Getting Started
Pro Tips For Platinum Printing
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999  | 

"The tone he produces on rough platinotype paper by skillful printing and carefully aged mercury baths cannot be reproduced by any mechanical process."
--George Bernard Shaw on the photographs of Frederick Evans

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Safe Computing
How To Avoid Catching A Virus
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999  | 

Computer viruses are small, invasive programs written by malevolent and misanthropic misfits that are designed to create havoc within your computer system. You get computer viruses in the same way that you catch the human variety; through contact with...

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Women In Photography
Claire Yaffa Portrays Hard Hitting Issues
Rosalind Smith  |  Feb 01, 1999  | 

When Claire Yaffa showed
her photographs to Cornell Capa, he said, "You take pretty pictures,
Yaffa, but what do you really want to say?" Yaffa thought long
and hard about the question. She had always beenin...

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Razor Sharp
Pro Tips For Larger Images
Jay Abend  |  Jan 01, 1998  | 

One of the claims often heard when talking about medium format cameras is, "With this camera you can get practically 4x5 quality." How realistic is that claim anyway? Let's face it, a 4x5 sheet of film has over three times the total real...

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Stock Photos
10 Pro Tips For Direct Marketing
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 1998  | 

Is there a serious photo enthusiast out there who doesn't harbor a desire to see his or her work published? Well, the vast majority I know would love to market their images to books, magazines, and advertising agencies. In fact, the most commonly...

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Large Image Files
Using Digital In Medium Format
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 1998  | 

Big. Everything about digital imaging with medium format film boils down to the joys and delights of working with large image files. A frame of medium format film dwarfs a 35mm negative or slide and while this bigness produces more image quality, it also...

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