Bob Coates

Outdoor/TravelSports/Action
The Travel Photo Market
An Underwater Photographer Comes Up For Air
Bob Coates  |  Nov 01, 2003

Steve Simonsen learned photography the hard way. Let's see, there was a rangefinder camera, lack of lens choices, hyperfocal distance focusing, and flash ratios, not to mention backscatter of light. All of this had to be dealt with and there was no...

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Don't Stop
Till You Get It Right
Bob Coates  |  Jun 01, 2000

Sometimes the sight is so fantastic or the moment goes by so fast that you miss the definitive photo of a location. There are also some subjects that can't be captured on...

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Pro Techniques
How To
Float Those Rings And Things
Bob Coates  |  Apr 01, 1999

For those times when you want to isolate an object with a pleasing non-competing background, here is a system that will give you lots of options. It worked especially well when a client asked me to photograph individual pieces of jewelry to illustrate...

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