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Pro Techniques
Time Travel; Using Still Images To Imply Motion
Jim Zuckerman  |  Aug 01, 2006

Photography can do two things that no other artistic medium can do: It can freeze motion so we are able to examine every detail in a fast-moving subject, thus revealing things that our eyes could never catch; and it can blur the same subject to express the fluidity and aesthetics of motion. When you blur a subject with a long enough shutter speed, it blends the background with a...

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Lens NewsLens Reviews
Tamron’s SP AF180mm F/3.5 Di LD (IF) 1:1 Macro; A Macro Tele Lens For 35mm, APS-C, And Digital SLRs With Full-Frame Sensors
Jason Schneider  |  Aug 01, 2006

This fairly large (6.5" long, 3.3" in diameter), reasonably lightweight (32.5 oz, including removable tripod collar) macro tele covers the 24x36mm format in film or digital as well as the smaller APS-C digital format. The Di (Digitally Integrated) designation indicates that it's "optically designed for digital SLR cameras." To translate the remainder...

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Student Union
Student Union - Will Newman
Jay McCabe  |  Aug 01, 2006

Will Newman
Carolina Day School
Asheville, North Carolina

Good Start

Will is the youngest photographer we've featured on this page--he's 11, and in the fifth grade at Carolina Day School. "When I was about 2 years old," Will says, "my mom put a camera in my hands and said, `Shoot.' But...

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Sony’s Alpha A100; A 10-Megapixel Digital SLR With Some Familiar Features Plus Sony Technology
Peter K. Burian  |  Aug 01, 2006

The first digital SLR from Sony, the Alpha A100 ($899, body; $999 with 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens) offers amenities from the Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D along with Sony technology. This first camera from the Konica Minolta/Sony collaboration announced in 2005 employs the Alpha designation that was previously used for the Maxxum line in Asia. More than a "re-badged Maxxum...

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Pro Techniques
Where The Sky Meets The Sea; The Photography Of Alison Shaw
Rosalind Smith  |  Aug 01, 2006

Imagine living on a beautiful island: Look to your left and see the sun rise in the morning; look to your right and see it set each night.

The secret nuances of color on the horizon where the sky meets the sea and the sea meets the shore have drawn photographer Alison Shaw to Martha's Vineyard off the coast of New England, where she has lived and photographed for...

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Covering The Photo Beat; Stability, Storage, Portable Battery Kits, And Inkjet Cartridges
C.A. Boylan  |  Aug 01, 2006

Adorama's Flashpoint Studio Case
The Flashpoint Studio Case is available in three different versions, each designed to meet the needs of professional or advanced amateur photographers on the move. These strong cases are lightweight and crafted from a core of Lexan plastic with a dense foam layer that provides extra protection against bumps and shocks.

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Portraiture
A Pro’s Two Fixed Focal Length Portrait Lenses & The Six Reasons He Owns Them; Only For The Not Ready For Full-Frame Players!
Steve Bedell  |  Aug 01, 2006

Given the current state of technology, a case could be made that a photographer could exist today with only two lenses--a wide angle to moderate zoom, and a short tele to long tele-zoom. That would be a mistake. For as good and flexible as today's zoom lenses are, there are some compelling reasons to choose fixed focal length lenses on occasion. I'll admit, 90 percent...

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Outdoor/Travel
Post Cards From The Freezer; Photographing Antarctica Digitally
Rick Sammon  |  Aug 01, 2006

"Antarctica is a separate world...it is the presence of ice, from the first occasional fragment, escalating in shape, form and frequency, and finally dominating all else, that brings assurance of arrival in Antarctica."--Mark Jones, from Wild Ice: Antarctic Journeys (available on Amazon.com)

Taking pictures in Antarctica is easy. Point your camera...

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Picture This
Picture This!
High Sensitivity: Photos Made At ISO 800 And Above
Shutterbug Staff  |  Aug 01, 2006

The Picture This! assignment for this month was High Sensitivity, pictures taken at ISO 800 and beyond. Readers sent in a host of images that took advantage of high-speed settings on their digital cameras and on high-speed film. At those speeds images made in very low light become available, and many more "chances" are taken with pictures that in the past might have...

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Pro Techniques
Perspective Control (PC) Lenses For Panoramas; Not Just For Architecture Anymore
Joseph A. Dickerson  |  Aug 01, 2006

It's a well-known tenet that Perspective Control (PC) or tilt/shift lenses are intended for shooting architectural subjects. But who says you have to use them that way?

A PC lens lets you do a certain amount of tilt/shift, rise/fall control, a limited equivalent to a technique that view camera photographers can fully exploit via the...

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