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Jim Cornfield explains the what and the how of the HDR imaging with the help of Harold Davis.
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Rangefinder and DIY Photography give how-to's on assembling DIY gear such as beauty dishes and red-scale film.
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Jerry Ghionis
Rangefinder presents its top six fall workshop picks for wedding and portrait photographers.
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Weighing the pros and cons for photographers of social media’s newest darling. Once you’ve saturated your Facebook and Twitter feeds with all the business and self-promotion traction you can get out of them, what’s next on the social media horizon?
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I can’t tell you how often I get an e-mail or phone call from a photographer with the same story: A current or potential client contacted the photographer about a possible assignment or use of a stock image. The client described what he was looking for and asked to see some samples of images that might work. The photographer complied and tried to protect himself by sending some low-res and/or watermarked images that would give the client a clear view of the images but that could not, as a practical matter, be used directly for any kind of commercial or publication purposes.
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Martin Waugh
Drips, drops, droplets and ripples are all part of this photographer’s day. The divine art of the splash has been one of Portland resident Martin Waugh’s favorite pastimes since 2002. He claims he’s obsessed with creating high-speed photographs of drops and splashes, and is constantly exploring and inventing new techniques to wow viewers.
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My clients are always making crazy requests, especially since the introduction of digital. They frequently ask for summer fashion catalogues with outdoor themes shot in the dead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and they always pick the rainiest or snowiest days to shoot on. To deal with this common request, I create the image indoors using a technique called simulated sunlight, and marry it with a simple background drop out technique in Photoshop to drop in a suitable outdoor scene.
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Purchasing his first DSLR in 2003 proved to be a turning point in Paul Friedman’s life. With a full-time job and a young family, he shot mostly on weekends, pushing himself to improve every day. Today, Paul is the owner of LensProToGo, a high-end photographic equipment rental company in Concord, MA, staffed by pro shooters. How did he transition from a novice photographer, to pro photographer to the owner of a successful photo equipment business? Paul shares some of his pivotal decisions, winning management objectives and his top priority, all of which have helped him grow his business in a turbulent market.
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There’s no one program that has associated itself so closely to digital photography as much as Adobe Photoshop, having been around now for more than 22 years. It was the program that bridged the gap during the industry transition from analog to digital image-capture devices by introducing us to the concept and open creativeness of pixel manipulation.
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I called my sister and cried into my flip phone (cut me some slack, it was 2006!). I was sitting in a Las Vegas hotel room at dusk as the city lights sparkled against a purple and orange sky. “The pizza guy practically knows me by name,” I moaned into the receiver after recounting how many meals I’d eaten by myself. It was the first time I had attended WPPI and I was overcome with emotion.
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Andrew Darlow
Maintaining a competitive edge is vital for success in every profession, especially photography. How you go about keeping that edge varies from photographer to photographer, market to market, and sometimes photo specialty to photo specialty.
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Jerry D
Jerry D’s Extreme Makeover Techniques is a recently released book that reveals years of makeup, lighting, posing and Photoshop techniques that will allow you to beautify anyone who walks into your studio. Jerry D is not only a gifted photographer and Photoshop wizard, he is also a licensed cosmetologist and hairdresser, as well as a black belt in the Chinese martial art of kung fu.
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Life in the 21st Century is all about fast communications—the faster and broader, the better. First, there was email, but that seemed to take too long for some—especially for younger folks—you had to fill in a subject line, write comprehensible English, etc. So texting, with its own peculiar language, abbreviations and acronyms, evolved. But that meant limiting your sphere of distribution to those in your cell phone.
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