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Gauntlet: Making Crooked Straight

 

By Gary Fong
 
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Objects made by man should be straight.  Objects made by Nature can be crooked.
 

 

Lessons from the Shot: Attaining Good Skin Tones with Digital Cameras, Part 1 by Stanley Leary

 

by Stanley Leary

 
 
 
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The color of a photograph can take you back in time, create a mood, or make your work look amateurish.
 

Gauntlet: Fighting with Contrast

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 10:45

 

By Gary Fong
 
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Photographic rock and rollers fight with ear bending deafness and out of this world stage lighting.  The challenge for lens-men (or lens-women) is to hold the detail in the virtual darkness.
 
What you see is not always what you get.  The nuance of stage lighting and background can blow out the highlights and/or blend the shadows into deeper shadows.
 
 

Photographers are Becoming Obsolete, Unless... by Stanley Leary

 

by Stanley Leary

 
 
 
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How we are becoming obsolete?
 
Professional photographers are becoming more and more obsolete because their work is becoming a commodity. In addition, technology advances have made it easier for one to make a photograph. Already Facebook’s photo collection has a staggering 140 billion photos, that’s over 10,000 times larger than the Library of Congress.