| The Three Lens Wedding |  By Paul Gero
This past weekend's wedding of Natalie and George took place at her
parent's lovely and historic home in the foothills of the San Gabriel
Mountains. The weather early in the day was a bit warm, but by late
afternoon and the nighttime reception, it could not have been more
perfect.
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| Photography Has No Gender |  By Carolyn E. Wright
Women photographers are fortunate. Unlike other titles, photographer
has no gender. Women photographers don’t have to force stilted language
like “flight attendant” instead of “stewardess,” or “letter carrier”
instead of “mailman.” “Photographer” doesn’t have the historical
male/female titles su...
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| What Is The Future Of Photography? |  By Joel Grimes
If you have been around the photographic industry for any length of
time, you have to be wondering what in the world is going on out there.
With more and more photographers flooding the marketplace, how will we
all survive? What will the photographic industry look like in the near
future? Our best hope for understanding what tomorrow will bring is
looking to the pa...
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| Adding a Fake Sky |
 By Jodi Friedman
This month Jodi Friedman shows you how to make quick work out adding fake skys to those boring cloudless images.
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| Hit The Spot |
 By Wes Kroninger
I wanted to talk this week about a piece of equipment that has become a
favorite in my arsenal for beauty work. It is the Fresnel Spot. It
looks like sunlight and is focusable to broaden its coverage or focus
the light down to only cover a small area. The small specular qualities
of the light are a little difficult to get used to, especially if you
are used to shooting with soft light sources, but if you are going for
snappy details, crisp shadows and great color saturati...
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| Gesture and Light: Portraiture with Flair |
 By Don Giannatti
This past weekend I did a workshop in Chicago. We spent the first day working
with light in the studio and out. The second day was all on location. I rarely
shoot at workshops - that I leave for the students attending. I believe they
have that honor, while I have the honor of teaching.
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| Working with the Sun |
 By Chris Grey
If there’s one rule that gets drilled into photographers of every skill
level, it’s the one that says the worst time of the day to shoot
outdoors is between 10:00 and 4:00. At the risk of drilling it in even
deeper, that’s because the sun is high and very bright. The angle of
the light is completely unattractive and so contrasty that shadows
cannot fill. You may look at your subject and think the sun’s
highlight is beautiful (it migh...
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| Fiji |
 By Steve Dantzig
I just returned from my first “real” vacation in six years. I took 9
days off and went to Fiji. The Polynesian culture is one of the many
reasons that Hawaii called me back 8 times in two years before I moved
here in 2003. Hawaiian history fascinates me. The early Hawaiians
migrated from the various South Sea and Polynesian Islands and I wanted
to see where part of that history came from.
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| Architectural Interiors with My DIY Grid Spot! |
 By Alan Blakely
Last month I described how to construct an inexpensive grid spot
attachment for your speedlight. This month let’s look at using the
grid spot to light a complex interior shot. First, you’ll need to do a little experimenting to arrive at some
exposure values for your speedlight grid using your various size
grids. If you have a flash meter this will be a snap, otherwise you’ll
need to shoot a few test shots.
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| Photoshop Super Quiz - Letter F |
 Tony Hertz
Multiple Choice questions are from the letter “F” and separated into
three learning levels. Challenge your Photoshop knowledge, have fun and
learn with this Photoshop Super Quiz.
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| The Rules of Photography and Concepts of Composition |
 By David Beckstead
What are the ‘Rules of Photography’? What is composition and how do the ‘Rules’ apply?
Before I attempt to take on these mammoth questions, I am going to tell
you what this article is not: it is not a history lesson about art and
Greece. It is not about how composition can be turned into a
mathematical equation. It is not just about the ‘Rule of Thirds’. It is
not about every conceivable compositional idea. The questions will not
be ...
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| Time To Talk a Bit About Marketing. Yikes |
 By Kirk Tuck
Is it possible to be in the market for too long? I'm not talking about
the stock market. We all know the answer to that one. I'm talking
about the photography market. If you are forty or fifty years old and
you've been a photographer for the last ten or twenty years you know
that we've been through some gut-wrenching changes. We've all devised
some self-serving and optimistic ways of looking at the decline of our
traditional markets.
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| It's Not About Me. It's About You |
 By Chris & Katie Humphreys
A few weeks ago on Twitter, Chris Brogan, a blogger on social media,
had taken down his Facebook fan page because as he said, “it’s not
about me.” He recognized that in trying to build buzz and create more
followers, it’s most productive not to build fan groups but to reach
out to those he serves and spend time focusing on them. I took this to
heart and really thought about how this sums up the attitude we should
all have ...
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| The Boring of Storing Digital Photos |
 By Alan Murabayashi
There are few things in life that bore me more than talking about data
storage. All the other contributors get to talk about cool photos and
inspiration, and I’m stuck talking about bits and bytes. It just
doesn’t seem fair. But although the topic makes me want crows to peck
my eyes out, I still get questions like this all the time:
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