Joe Farace

Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Be Careful What You Wish For
What I Want And Don't Want In My Next Digicam!
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2004

Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."--the late Douglas Adams

In last year's Shutterbug's Photography Buyer's Guide (do...

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Bowens' Pulsar Radio Trigger System
Work Wirelessly...On Location And In The Studio
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2004

Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

OK, I'll be the first one to admit that I'm a klutz. I like to work with long lenses (an 85mm lens is short to me) and am constantly backing up into whatever boyfriend, husband, or hanger-on that models feel...

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Adorama Monolights
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2004

Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

Light, as they say, "is light." The most important characteristic of monolights, or any kind of lighting system, is the quality and the quantity of the light they produce. Other stuff like recycling time, power...

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Web Profiles
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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Web Profiles
Portraits Of The World; A Study In Contrasts
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2004

Portraits From The Real World
Dick Sanders is an interesting guy. Like many of us, he became interested in photography while young, but the career path that led him to create the arresting images that populate this site (

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Digital Imaging Computers; A Dedicated Setup For Your Work
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2004

These days, digital minilabs from Agfa and Fuji have made producing inexpensive, good looking prints directly from memory cards as easy as shooting film, but just as the person who wants to create more expressive film images needs the creative control...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Small Wonders
It's A Small World, But I Wouldn't Want To Paint It
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2004

"I am a Shutterbug subscriber and recently received the June issue." So begins a recent e-mail. "On page 74, Mr. Joe Farace describes the xD card as being `mostly useless.' I recently purchased an...

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Digital Darkroom
Digital Diary; A Hands On Approach To Ink Jet Printing
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2004

Editor's Note: This month starts a new column here at eDigitalPhoto from Joe Farace. Loyal readers of the magazine will know that Joe has been doing the Buzzwords here each month, and...

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Web Profiles
Sites With Impact; A Pixel Is Worth A Thousand Words
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2004

His Master's Voice
The simplicity of Blake Shaw's homepage (www.blakeshawphotography.com) hits you over the head with a soft hammer belying the complex imagery within. The...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Real Or Photoshop?
Is That An Illustration Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2004

"Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu."--Lucretius (96-55 B.C.)

I happen to think that the process of making photographs extends beyond snapping a shutter. Manipulating images has...

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