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Wider is Better
By Arthur H. Bleich– Most amateur photographers lust for longer focal length lenses that bring distant subjects nearer. But most professionals will tell you that if they had to choose between a telephoto or a short focal length lens, they’d take the wide-angle every time. First, it’s a very versatile lens, especially for shooting close-up...read more
How Well Do You Know Your Aspect Ratio?
By Shelly Katz– Recently, a puzzling question crossed my desk – yes, it was a Monday. Question: Do you have a chart of what is the most standard actual print sizes to fit on a certain paper size. EX: 17×22 paper size –  renders a 18×12 print Thanks! My Reply: At first all I could say...read more
Judging a Lens by the Quality of a Print
by Derrick Story– I test a lot of gear over the course of a year, including lenses in all sorts of mounts. I don’t have an optical bench for these reviews. I focus on how the equipment performs in the field. The final step in this process is to make a 13″ x 19″ print...read more
Boldly Going Where No Lens Has Gone Before
By Arthur H. Bleich– You can fiddle around with in Photoshop to merge several images taken at different distance settings in order to increase your depth of field but nothing does it better (or faster) than Helicon Focus, a stand-alone application created by a team of developers, headed by Dan Kozub, in the Ukraine who...read more
Thru The Looking Glass
by Shelly Katz– “It’s not always about the destination, sometimes it’s about the journey”  Flying Over Central California. Photo by Shelly Katz Often when on my way to photograph at an exotic location, I’m reminded of that cliché as I make a very memorable photograph looking out the window of my airplane. In fact,...read more
Selling Physical Photographs Online & Printing Them – All On Your Own
 By Scott Wyden Kivowitz– Here’s  how photographers can go about selling their photographs and printing the orders on their own. After making the photographs and processing them, it is time to get them onto a website where you can sell them. You could easily create a SmugMug or Zenfolio site which is designed to sell your...read more
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Life in a Bubble
by Arthur H. Bleich– “I’m forever blowing bubbles, Pretty bubbles in the air.†From the hit song Life In A Bubble, 1919. Backpacking in Ireland in 2006, Tom Storm, 32, remembers being part of the crowd at the Galway Festival when bubbles from a nearby vendor floated by him. “I’ve always been...read more
Shooting Long, Slow And Steady Bags a Squirrel On a Power Line
by Arthur H. Bleich– A few years ago, I had an assignment from a power company to illustrate an article about causes of power-outs. Many disruptions are caused, I learned, by animals (and even bugs) during their daily rambles. I had just received a Pentax K100D to review for a magazine so I decided to...read more
