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  • Tip of the Day: Save Your Shots

    If you accidentally hit the camera’s Delete button and flush the wrong image, don’t panic, but do stop shooting immediately. Deleted images do not disappear at once—the space they occupy on the memory card is “overwritten” by another image. If you quit shooting before that happens you can usually recover the missing file(s) using one of the many aftermarket software products like Lexar’s Image Rescue 3 ($30, direct). —Jon Sienkiewicz
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 2, 2007

    If you accidentally hit the camera’s Delete button and flush the wrong image, don’t panic, but do stop shooting immediately. Deleted images do not disappear at once—the space they occupy on the memory card is “overwritten” by another image. If you quit shooting before that happens you can usually recover the missing file(s) using one of the many aftermarket software products like Lexar’s Image Rescue 3 ($30, direct). —Jon Sienkiewicz

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  • Look Ma, No Photoshop

    The moral of the story: don’t feel bad, ladies, if you don’t look this good without makeup—you probably don’t walk around overexposed and slightly blurry. After the jump, we deconstruct a few of the most egregious cases.
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 1, 2007


    How     People Magazine used all the camera tricks in the book to make stars look great without makeup.

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  • Tip of the Day: Go With the Flow

    Turn a waterfall or flowing brook into a mysteriously smooth smear. Use a tripod, manual exposure, and the slowest permissible shutter speed (1/4 sec or slower). The water’s movement will become a blur but the rest of the image will be sharp and clear.—Jon Sienkiewicz
    • By Popphoto Staff on May 1, 2007


    Turn a waterfall or flowing brook into a mysteriously smooth smear.

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  • GE Cameras Hit the Home Shopping Network

    In fact, for the next few weeks, HSN is the only place you’ll be able to get the cameras made by General Imaging, the licensee for GE-branded digicams– they won’t be in stores until late in May.
    • By Popphoto Staff on April 30, 2007


    The GE-branded digital cameras that were launched with much ballyhoo at last month’s Photo Marketing Asso

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  • Game Boys

    Shauna Frischkorn an associate professor of art at Pennsylvania's Millersville University has captured a series of young men in blackness, faces illuminated, with expressions of horror, excitement, awe, and captivation in her photo essay. What extreme circumstances did she put them under? None– they were all playing video games. An unexpected subject matter with surprisingly intense results. (via Mother Jones March/April issue)—Kathleen Davis
    • By Popphoto Staff on April 30, 2007


    Shauna Frischkorn an associate professor of art at Pennsylvania's Millersville University has captured

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  • Tip of the Day: Keep Moving

    The technique of panning adds drama to images of moving subjects, such as racehorses and Indy cars. It’s easy, but gorgeous results require practice. Set a shutter speed that’s not fast enough to stop the motion. Keep the subject in one spot in the viewfinder and follow the subject’s movement the same way would if you were using a camcorder. The correct result is a more-or-less motionless subject surrounded by a streaked background. —Jon Sienkiewicz
    • By Popphoto Staff on April 30, 2007


    The technique of panning adds drama to images of moving subjects, such as racehorses and Indy cars.

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  • What the Duck

    (click to view at full size)Check out more photography-related comics by Aaron Johnson updated regularly at www.whattheduck.net
    • By Popphoto Staff on April 30, 2007

    (click to view at full size)Check out more photography-related comics by Aaron Johnson updated regularly at www.whattheduck.net

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  • Sigma SD14 Camera Hacks

    Last week we were the first to get our hands on the fabled Sigma SD14, and we gave you our impressions and showed you some shots we took with it. This week, Jack Howard shows us an easy hack to the SD14 to capture invisible lightBy simply removing the infrared (IR) cutoff filter from this digital SLR, the camera gains the ability to capture IR plus visible spectrum images.
    • By Popphoto Staff on April 27, 2007

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  • Letter of the Week: No Contest

    Dear Sir:
    • By Popphoto Staff on April 27, 2007

    To: Editor, Popular Photography & Imaging

    Dear Sir:

    Enclosed is the announcement of a photo contest sponsored by a regional magazine . They require an entry fee, specify that all submissions become their property and NONE will be returned. The part that I really don’t like is the no return policy.

    The local regional newspapers: Cap Cod Times and Boston Globe are equally guilty. They will not return submissions even when a S.A.S.E is included!

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  • Shoot This: Weekend Photo Assignment Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

    In case you don’t know, a pinhole camera is basically is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other—the pinhole replaces the lens.
    • By Popphoto Staff on April 27, 2007

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