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It’s A New Year; New Lives; Children Of The World
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2007

"My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one."--Groucho Marx

As hard as it may be for some of the young people in my neighborhood to believe, I was once a child myself. I have three grandchildren and a daughter and once upon a time wrote a story about her for ComputerUSER magazine. The story was optioned by an independent...

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It’s National Photo Month: Put Part Of yourself In Your Photographs
Joe Farace  |  Jun 04, 2013  |  First Published: May 01, 2013
There are as many different ways to construct a website as there are to make a photograph, just as there are many genres of photography. Yet all have the same goal: to make a photograph that pleases the maker and viewer alike and makes both think about the experience. That’s why I love photography; there’s so much that can be enjoyed by practitioners of all levels, whether carrying a Micro Four Thirds camera or schlepping a large format view camera around the wilderness. We do it because we love to make photographs. May is National Photo Month so remember to have fun with your photography.
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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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Keeping Up With The Pixels...: “Shutterbug” Readers In The Spotlight
Joe Farace  |  Aug 30, 2013  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2013
A website has more in common with a daily newspaper than a studio brochure and photographers should constantly update it with new images and information about themselves and their services. That’s why having a blog—and updating it regularly—is a must these days. Your site’s overall design must also be reviewed and improved on an ongoing basis to keep it looking fresh. A website is like a living organism that must constantly grow and change in order to survive. When was the last time you updated yours?
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Kissing Frogs; Looking For Mr. Goodsite
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2009

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”—Emad Hasan

When this column evolved from its former Website of the Month origins more than 10 years ago into what it is today, it was a simpler time, Internet-wise. Really good photographers’ homepages were few and far between, but now the web explodes with sites, some produced via the templates and...

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Monochrome…Never Out Of Style; Black & White And Read All Over
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2011

“The ink is black… The world is black, the world is white…”—David Arkin for Three Dog Night

Because it pays homage to a long tradition in photography, this black-and-white-themed issue has always been one of my favorites. That’s why I decided to devote this month’s column to photographers who capture monochrome images and, like photography...

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Music To My Eyes; Sites Full Of Soul
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2004

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here."--J.K. Rowling

Like many photographers, some of the artists featured this month have a musical background. Many people forget that Ansel Adams was a pianist; maybe the black and white keys on the piano were the...

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New Year, New Web Visions: Revamp Your Site And Use These Online Portfolios As The Inspiration
Joe Farace  |  Mar 10, 2015
I’m very excited to kick off the new year with websites from four photographers whose photographs could not be more different from one another, yet each shows the power of photography as the universal language. Anyone who is interested in pursuing fine art photography as either a career or avocation will find that these websites represent a virtual master class and I hope that the photographs will inspire you, as they do me, to make 2015 a year in which we all focus our energies in creating more and better images.
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On Location With Four Great Photographers: Tumbling Into Tumblr
Joe Farace  |  May 31, 2012  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2012
Tumblr (www.tumblr.com) is a free microblogging platform that lets you post text, images, videos, quotes, and audio using a short-form blog called a tumblelog. Using free or modestly priced templates, it’s the easiest kinds of photoblog to produce and you can literally have a blog up and running within minutes. With 6.8 million weekly visits the site ranks as the 10th largest social network so it’s a good way to keep clients and friends up-to-date about the kinds of photographs you’re making. You can see my own attempt at http://joefarace.tumblr.com. Give Tumblr a try and send me a link to your blog because I plan to have an all-Tumblr Web Profiles in the near future.
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On The Road: Montana; Big Sky Means Big Photography
Joe Farace  |  Apr 01, 2011

“It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.”—Henry David Thoreau

In recent months I’ve devoted this column to various themes and this month have expanded that concept to include geography. All of the photographers featured this month are located in Montana, the Big Sky state, which I think has some of the most spectacular scenery here in the lower forty-eight, as their...

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Open Sources, Open Standards; This Time, The Revolution Will Be Televised—On The Internet
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2006

"You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out."
--Gil Scott-Heron

Is the raw file format the solution or the problem? According to OpenRAW (www.openraw.org), "closed, proprietary, raw file formats present many immediate and future challenges for photographers." Some of their reasons...

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Our 4 Favorite Photographer Portfolio Websites of the Month
Joe Farace  |  May 08, 2015
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Our Favorite Reader Websites: 3 Galleries Prove Photography Is More Than Just Taking Pictures
Joe Farace  |  Nov 07, 2016

A reader recently e-mailed me, asking, “I noticed you and other professional photographers don't always use right-click protection or watermarks (on your sites.) It seems like you'd want to protect your photos from unauthorized use. I'm not a pro but even I wouldn't want someone to grab some of my photos as their own.”

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Our Favorite Reader Websites: 3 Great Online Photo Portfolios that Make Every Click Count
Joe Farace  |  Aug 26, 2016

Each of my Web Profiles columns will now include suggestions on how to increase the number of people who not only visit your Web site or blog but want to come back for more. To provide real world examples, I’ll pick sites that put these tips into practice.

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Our Favorite Reader Websites: 3 Great Photography Sites That Aren’t a Flash in the Pan
Joe Farace  |  Dec 21, 2016

In my July 2016 column I posited several reasons why you shouldn’t use Adobe Flash, including blocking millions of iDevice owners from viewing your photography. Yet Flash remains popular, as you can see by one of the sites I hoped to feature this month but could not because my computer is Flash-free.

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