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Lighting
Lesson Of The Month
Photographing Expensive Jewelry With Inexpensive Equipment
Ben Clay  |  Aug 01, 2000

Photographing jewelry can be particularly challenging for a number of
reasons:

1. Since most jewelry is highly reflective, the size and placement of
light modifiers is crucial.

2. To appreciate theatte...

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The Darkroom
The Darkroom
Printing Color Negatives
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Aug 01, 2000

The Beginners Method.
You'll need three trays; a black and white enlarger; a red, green, and
blue filter; some of the special, ambient temperature, color chemicals;
and, of course, some color printing paper.

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Do It Yourself
Build An Ultra Wide Shift Camera Part 1
Tom Fuller  |  Aug 01, 2000

This month we have a Level 5 project (see the April 2000 issue for an explanation of the DIY complexity scale) that I've broken into two parts for convenience. This part describes the concept and the basic camera design, with next month's Part 2 covering...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Take A Creative Break, Today
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2000

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."--Wayne Gretsky

Back in the Cretaceous era while studying photography at the Maryland Institute of Art, I was privileged to have Jack Wilgus as an instructor. One of my fondest memories of...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Aug 01, 2000

This column will attempt
to provide solutions to problems readers may have getting into and using
digital cameras, scanning, and using digital photographic images with
a computer and different kinds of software. All questions sent to me will
b...

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Canon EF Super Telephotos With Image Stabilizer
Peter K. Burian  |  Aug 01, 2000

Ever since its introduction in 1995, the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM--the first lens for 35mm SLR systems with an Image Stabilizer (IS)--has won acclaim and honors. Most prestigious were the European awards: "Lens of the Year" and "Best Lens"...

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Business Trends
Business Trends
Four Tips To Energize Your Marketing
Maria Piscopo  |  Aug 01, 2000

The Beginners Method.
You'll need three trays; a black and white enlarger; a red, green, and
blue filter; some of the special, ambient temperature, color chemicals;
and, of course, some color printing paper.

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Avoid Aggravation
Spend Your Money Wisely When Buying Lenses
Steve Bedell  |  Aug 01, 2000

People have been fascinated with panoramic imagery ever since the beginning of photography, but my own fascination can be traced back to Bausch & Lomb's invention of CinemaScope lenses for the movies during the 1950s. The first CinemaScope movie, The...

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We Tried It
The Wimberley Plamp
Robert E. Mayer  |  Aug 01, 2000

What's a Plamp you ask? That's a contraction for Plant Clamp from the folks who make the very specialized and useful gimbal mounted telephoto lens suspension systems. Since many people who use the long lens mounts are nature photographers, it was only...

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Portraiture
Wedding & Portraiture
See And Think Like Your Lens
Monte Zucker  |  Aug 01, 2000

If you were a lens, what would you be thinking? If you could answer that, you'd probably be a better photographer.

For the moment think about what the lens is doing for us, what it's seeing and...

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