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  • Smokin' Photos

    In our April You Can Do It, David Boehm taught us how to get really cool pictures of smoke. Reader Kris Wiktor of West Allis, WI tried it himself and the results are spectacular.


    In our April You Can Do It, David Boehm taught us h

  • Better Batteries

    —Peter Kolonia


    The problem with NiMH AA and AAA rechargeables?  Relatively short shelf life for the charge.  Alkaline cells, for example, hold

  • What the Duck

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

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

  • Letter of the Week: Razing Cane

    Subject: Regarding a Story in your March Issue


    How sweet it  turns out it is..

  • Patterns of the Earth

    Click here to see a photo gallery of some of the images from the book.


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    atterns of the Earth, by

  • If You Have the Money..

    Sothebys’ Photographs auction in New York takes place next Thursday. For those in New York who don’t make enough to bid on Avedon and Kertesz, you can still get a glimpse of some of their masterpieces before they disappear forever into Hamptons mansions, at the Sotheby’s Photographs Exhibition which will run daily for one week prior to the event (beginning yesterday,Thursday, April 19), from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those with a few hundred thousand to blow on an Arbus print, still have five days to book their ticket. — Lori Fredrickson

    Sothebys’ Photographs auction in New York takes place next Thursday. For those in New York who don’t make enough to bid on Avedon and Kertesz, you can still get a glimpse of some of their masterpieces before they disappear forever into Hamptons mansions, at the Sotheby’s Photographs Exhibition which will run daily for one week prior to the event (beginning yesterday,Thursday, April 19), from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Tip of the Day: Coffee Diffuser

    For your point-and-shoot camera: hold a coffee filter over the flash to diffuse the light and give your close-ups a soft glow and may reduce red eye. Other every day objects like tissue will work as well. (from Real Simple- 10 uses for coffee filters)


    For your point-and-shoot camera: hold a coffee filter over the flash to diffuse the light and give your close-ups a soft gl

  • Your Photos Say More Than You Think

    Mitch Goldstone, runs 30 Minute Photos Etc. in Irvine, CA and offers a very successful a nationwide photo scanning service (ScanMyPhotos.com). He scans around 100,000 photos a day and it keeps growing (coverage from USA TODAY and The Wall Street Journal aren’t hurting business). Shifting though millions of pictures Goldstone and his staff have noticed a few trends some scarier than others.

  • Tip of the Day: Light Streaks

    You can create exciting streaks of light that appear to be emanating from your subject by twisting the manual zoom ring during a longish (1 second or so) exposure. Wait until dark, then center the subject in front of a cityscape of other display of lights. Use a tripod and zoom smoothly. —Jon Sienkiewicz


    You can create exciting streaks of light that appear to be emanating from your subject by twisting the manual zoom ring

  • We Got it First: Our Hands On Impressions of the Sigma SD14

    We were starting to feel like we were waiting for Godot, but we (finally!) got a hold of a full production model Sigma SD14, the DSLR using the newly upgraded Foveon X3 chip that records red, green, and blue on three separate stacked layers in its image sensor.