Joe Farace

Adobe’s Photoshop Creative Suite 2
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2005

Call It Photoshop 9 If You Must
OK, go on and say it: Stop the madness! You haven't even upgraded from Photoshop 7 or just started on CS and along comes Adobe's Photoshop CS2 a.k.a. Space Monkey. As before, there are CS2 versions of all of Adobe's other graphic applications including InDesign, Illustrator, and GoLive. This is also the last...

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Web Profiles
Build Your Own Web Page? The Benefit: Worldwide Exposure
Joe Farace  |  May 01, 2005

"I have no life, just e-mail."
--Michael Jantze

The World Wide Web provides an international showcase for your images. Would I have ever seen the stunning work of Russian photographer Evgeniy Shaman (www.photo.gothic.ru/shamanix/index_e.htm) without the Internet? Nyet! If...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
The Best Things In Life Are Free; Who Says?
Joe Farace  |  May 01, 2005

Photos © 2004 Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form."
--Stephen Nachmanovitch

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free open source photo retouching and image authoring program. While some of its fans claim it's just as good as Adobe...

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Web Profiles
Browsers On Parade; Take A Test Drive
Joe Farace  |  Apr 01, 2005

"The site is best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer at 1024x 768."--a.k.a. the writing on the wall

So began an e-mail from a photographer who wants his work featured in this department. Guess what happens when you use another browser, such as Opera, to look at his site? Nada, nothing, zilch, zero. You get a white screen. I don't know about...

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The Original Lensbaby
Having Fun With Distortion And Soft Focus
Joe Farace  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  First Published: Mar 22, 2005

Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

The Original Lensbaby is a flexible camera lens that creates an image that has an area of sharp--or not--focus that's surrounded by a graduated blur. This mostly plastic lens is available in different camera mounts and brings the "Holga look" (see What's a Holga Anyway? sidebar) to single...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Share & Share Alike; Photo Sharing Is A Good Thing
Joe Farace  |  Apr 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

"Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends."--Trey Parker & Matt Stone

There are lots of photo-sharing sites, even good ones, too, like Smugmug (www.smugmug.com) and Webshots (http://www.webshots.com"...

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Web Profiles
Keep Your Head In The Clouds... With Your Camera Pointed All Around
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2005

"A dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds."--J.K. Rowling

This month's department helps you soar with the eagles, land with the owls, and introduces you to some down-to-earth photographers who look at the world in completely new ways. In accomplishing these goals, this month's photographers will...

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Portraits To Go With JTL’s Mobilight 300
Wireless Triggering For The Location Photographer
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2005

Riddle me this: What's the hardest thing to find on any location shoot? If you said, "clients who were on time," that would be partially true, but the correct answer is--an AC power outlet. They're even more difficult to find if you're at the beach, in a park, or as I often find myself, on a racetrack somewhere. One of the niftiest solutions...

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Digital Darkroom
F/8 And Be There… Or Not Film + Digital = Photograph
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

The biggest challenge when photographing cars at auto shows--indoors or out--is dealing with cluttered backgrounds. In the past I've used low angles, high angles and postproduction techniques to blur the setting and add some zoom-zoom. That approach shifted my focus from the subject to its surroundings...

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eTest: Top 10 Reasons You Want A Digital Rangefinder Camera; Shooting With Epson’s R-D1
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

· Epson R-D1 Quick Look
· Compact
· $2995 (Street price)
· Real world viewing

Further Information
Epson R-D1
http://www.epson.com

The Epson...

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