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Lesson Of The Month
Using LitePanels To Create Double Diffusion
Ben Clay/Web Photo School  |  Oct 01, 2003

Photographing highly reflective objects can be one of the most challenging tasks a product photographer can face. Simply trying to control and modify the reflections that show up can prove to be daunting. However, once you know how to modify these...

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Get Great Studio Portraits
Nine Tips To Lighting Success
Steve Bedell  |  Oct 01, 2003

My strong point has always been natural light. When clients call me about weddings, I tell them I am a "natural light specialist." I love shooting outdoor portraits and have trained myself to "see the light" in the locations that...

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First Look
Pentax *ist D Digital SLR
George Schaub  |  Oct 01, 2003

Said to be the smallest, lightest digital SLR body yet, the oddly named Pentax *ist D (pronounced ist-dee) is a 6-megapixel camera with an 11-point AF sensor, a 16-segment multi-pattern metering system, and what the company calls a "Hyper" operating system with 22 user-adjustable...

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Epson Stylus Photo 900
A New Improved Model That Prints On CDRs And DVD-Rs
David B. Brooks  |  Oct 01, 2003

Epson adds a new capability to their newest ink jet printer model. Now for the first time the individual user can create professional labels printing directly on a CD-R or DVD-R disc to obtain a professional appearance and avoid the problems and hassles of stick-on labels. Epson's new...

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Editor's Notes
Editor's Notes
George Schaub  |  Oct 01, 2003

Editor's Notes

Photography is by definition "drawing with light" and that's what we do every time we press the shutter release button. We take the light reflected from our subjects and etch the moment as a latent image on film or as a binary code that lands up on our...

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10 Low-Light Photo Tips
The Editors  |  Oct 01, 2003

Ways to be bright when it gets dark.

Low-light photography can yield some amazingly striking and unusual images. But it also presents a problem. You need a fast enough shutter speed to prevent camera-shake-induced image blurring, and sometimes to "freeze" a moving subject. You often need to shoot at a small enough aperture to provide adequate depth of field. You want to use the...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Digicams Are Not New
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

"History repeats itself; that's one of the things wrong with history."--Clarence Darrow

In February 1990, I wrote a story for the now-defunct Photomethods magazine...

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The Darkroom
The Darkroom: Strip, Clean, And Overhaul
Frances E. Schultz  |  Oct 01, 2003

"A house is a machine for living."--Le Corbusier

Any machine needs maintenance. Here's how I maintain my darkroom: a "strip, clean, and overhaul" in...

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Classic Camera Reviews
Classic Cameras
Voigtlander Bessa
Roger W. Hicks  |  Oct 01, 2003

Anyone who reads Shutterbug regularly will know of my enthusiasm for modern Voigtländer cameras. I'm also extremely fond of the postwar Prominent 35mm leaf-shutter rangefinder camera, and I have a great (though guarded) admiration for its prewar 120 namesake, one of the most...

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Business Trends
Business Trends
Lighting Your Way To Success
Maria Piscopo  |  Oct 01, 2003

I never really believed in the term "overnight success" in photography that is, until I met one. Patrick Ecclesine's (www.ecclesine.com) achievements took actually a week or two and they were...

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