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Does Quantity Lead to Quality? (September 16, 2018)
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Would You Care for One Shot or Two? (September 9, 2018)
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When You Use Deep, Deep Blacks, You Can Begin to Paint with Light (September 2, 2018)
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What's a Little Mirror Between Friends? (August 26, 2018)
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Conducting a Background Check (August 19, 2018)
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Reflections on Reflections (August 12, 2018)
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Some Thoughts on Nikon's Upcoming Mirrorless Announcement (August 5, 2018)
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Vocabulary Terms for the Frustrated Photographer (July 29, 2018)
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The Deepening XQD Card Mystery (July 22, 2018)
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Images For the Web: Sorting Out File Format Frustration (July 15, 2018)
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I May (Or May Not) Be Just About Ready to Snap (July 8, 2018)
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And in Other News, Film is Still Dead. Well, Almost. (July 1, 2018)
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If DNG Can Read My Files, Why Can't Lightroom? (June 24, 2018)
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RAW Versus JPEG in the Age of Mega Megapixels (June 17, 2018)
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More on Using the Camera Back LCD Screen (June 10, 2018)
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I Shutter to Think (June 3, 2018)
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Composition and Avoiding Clutter (May 27, 2018)
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Favorite Places to Shoot (May 20, 2018)
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Ways to Reach Creativity (May 13, 2018)
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Memories in a Shoebox (May 6, 2018)
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The Long and Winding Nik Collection Saga (April 29, 2018)
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How Long Does It Take to Shoot a Picture? (April 22, 2018)
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Lightroom Profiles and the Future of Accurate Color (April 15, 2018)
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Profiles: The Return of Photoshop Variations (April 8, 2018)
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My Love/Hate Relationship With Photography Books (April 1, 2018)
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Why Not Always Shoot High ISO? (March 25, 2018)
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More Things I've Learned From Being a Photographer (March 18, 2018)
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Some Things I've Learned Over the Years (March 11, 2018)
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Exploring (March 4, 2018)
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The Memory Card Market (February 25, 2018)
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Just Like Being There (And Chocolate Versus Strawberry Ice Cream) (February 18, 2018)
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Noise! (February 11, 2018)
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On Becoming a Pro, On Becoming an Amateur (February 4, 2018)
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How to Find Your Lost Car Keys (January 28, 2018)
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Old Filter Habits Die Hard (January 21, 2018)
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Putting it Into Words, and Going Beyond Words (January 14, 2018)
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The Grass is Always Greener When You Pump up the Saturation in Photoshop (January 7, 2018)
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It's The End Of The Year As We Know It (December 31, 2017)
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Top Ten List For 2017 (December 24, 2017)
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Point of You (December 17, 2017)
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Know Precisely What You Can and Cannot Control (December 10, 2017)
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You Might Be a Real Photographer If ... (December 3, 2017)
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Auto-Focus Woes (November 26, 2017)
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Through the Looking Glass (November 19, 2017)
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Using a Tripod (November 12, 2017)
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There is Only You and Your Camera (November 5, 2017)
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This is Your Lightroom. This is Your Lightroom on Clouds. (October 29, 2017)
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Brand Loyalty: From Coke Classic to Lightroom Classic (October 22, 2017)
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Straight Out of the Camera (October 15, 2017)
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Digital Darkroom Mistakes to Avoid (October 8, 2017)
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How to Hold Your Camera (October 1, 2017)
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Simplicity can be Complicated (September 24, 2017)
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Dangerous Curves Ahead (September 17, 2017)
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Your Photos (September 10, 2017)
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The Importance of Seeing (September 3, 2017)
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Two Minutes of Darkness: Notes on What Worked and What Didn't (August 27, 2017)
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Curiosity (August 20, 2017)
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The Dark Side of the Sun: More on the Great American Eclipse (August 13, 2017)
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To See a Total Eclipse of the Sun (August 6, 2017)
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Reconnaissance (July 30, 2017)
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The Photo Not Taken (July 23, 2017)
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Pre-visualization versus Post-visualization (July 16, 2017)
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Shoot First and Ask Questions Later? (July 9, 2017)
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It's Fireworks Time! (July 2, 2017)
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Do More Megapixels Cause More Problems? (June 25, 2017)
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Being a Photographer (June 18, 2017)
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Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones: Ouch (June 11, 2017)
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Google Nixes Nik: Some History and Some Thoughts (June 4, 2017)
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What is "Acceptably Sharp"? (May 28, 2017)
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To Infinity ... and Beyond? (May 21, 2017)
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That Dream Where You Forgot to Wear Pants to Work (May 14, 2017)
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Auto White Balance is not What You Think (May 7, 2017)
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It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping! (April 30, 2017)
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Landscape Photography Ethics (April 23, 2017)
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The Nikon D7500: Mostly Good (April 16, 2017)
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One Hand Tied Behind Your Back (April 9, 2017)
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No Fooling (April 2, 2017)
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Composition Quick Tip Bonanza (March 26, 2017)
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Bad Advice for Photographers (March 19, 2017)
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The Times, Are They a-Changin'? (March 12, 2017)
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It Was the Best of Photos, It Was the Worst of Photos (March 5, 2017)
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The Worst Tripod You Can Buy (February 26, 2017)
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Happy Birthday, Lightroom! (February 19, 2017)
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Ready, Aim, Fire! (February 12, 2017)
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Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose (February 5, 2017)
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No Two People Ever See the Same Rainbow (January 29, 2017)
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It All Depends on How You Look at It (January 22, 2017)
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Copywrong, Copyleft, Copyright (January 15, 2017)
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Every Photo is a Self-Portrait (January 8, 2017)
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What If ... ? (January 1, 2017)
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Happy Holidays: The Earthbound Light Top Ten for 2016 (December 25, 2016)
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Your Feet are not a Zoom Lens (December 18, 2016)
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Don't Ask Me to Shoot Your Wedding (December 11, 2016)
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Weather or Not (December 4, 2016)
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In Defense of Chimping (November 27, 2016)
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Judgment and its Consequences (November 20, 2016)
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On a Somewhat Different Topic (November 13, 2016)
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Putting Things on Top of Other Things: Strategies for Image Stacking (November 6, 2016)
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This Modern Technical World (October 30, 2016)
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The Horizon Line (October 23, 2016)
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Leaving Things Out (October 16, 2016)
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Standing On Your Own Three Feet (October 9, 2016)
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The Biggest Mistake an Aspiring Photographer Can Make (October 2, 2016)
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Photographic Yoga Positions (September 25, 2016)
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Patting Your Head and Rubbing Your Stomach at the Same Time (September 18, 2016)
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With a Phone in Your Pocket, Why Also Own a Camera? (September 11, 2016)
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The Landscape as Painting (September 4, 2016)
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips, or Be Careful Where You Step Out There (August 28, 2016)
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One Hundred Years and Counting (August 21, 2016)
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Can Someone Teach You Photography? (August 14, 2016)
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Going Beyond the Rule of Thirds (August 7, 2016)
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Positive and Negative (Spaces) (July 31, 2016)
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Over the River and Through the Woods (July 24, 2016)
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Balance and Imbalance (July 17, 2016, updated July 24, 2016)
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What Attracts the Eye? (July 10, 2016)
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Founding Fathers (July 3, 2016)
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Careful with That Camera, Eugene (June 26, 2016)
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There's a Reason They Call it a Viewfinder (June 19, 2016)
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White is Black, Black is White, Night is Day (June 12, 2016)
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Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke (June 5, 2016)
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Carrying Lenses I Don't Use (May 29, 2016)
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Seeing at Night: You and Your Camera (May 22, 2016)
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Reciprocity and Exposure Math in the Digital Age (May 15, 2016)
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Composition Always Happens, With or Without You (May 8, 2016)
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On Being Present And Being Absent (May 1, 2016)
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Holding Your Camera (April 24, 2016)
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Weren't We Supposed to Have Hovercraft by Now? (April 17, 2016)
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Shooting for HDR, And Whether You Even Need To (April 10, 2016)
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In General, It's Best to Avoid Generalizations (April 3, 2016)
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Adobe to Offer Ad Supported Photoshop For Free (March 27, 2016, updated April 1, 2016)
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Happy Vernal Equinox Day (March 20, 2016)
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Where Did That Hour Go? (March 13, 2016)
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The Act of Pressing the Button (March 6, 2016)
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Green Party (February 28, 2016)
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Sweating the Small Stuff (February 21, 2016)
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Timing (February 14, 2016)
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Photography is Inherently Subjective (February 7, 2016)
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Groundhog Day (January 31, 2016)
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The Case For and Against Zoom Lenses (January 24, 2016)
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Habit Forming (January 17, 2016)
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The Color Purple, and What We Can Learn From It to Print Better Images (January 10, 2016)
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Adobe Lightroom: A Year in Review (January 3, 2016)
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Earthbound Light Top Ten for 2015 (December 27, 2015, updated December 25, 2016)
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If at First You Don't Succeed (December 20, 2015)
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Which is More Important: Camera or Lens? (December 13, 2015)
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You Take Photos With the Camera You Have, Not the One You Wish You Had (December 6, 2015)
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Size Does Matter (November 29, 2015)
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Holiday Gift Ideas 2015 (November 22, 2015)
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Where the Sidewalk Ends (November 15, 2015)
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Finding the Image You Wish You Had (November 8, 2015)
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Suggestions for That Extra Hour Today (November 1, 2015)
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I Shutter to Think... (October 25, 2015)
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Flattery for FLIF File Format Fanfare (October 18, 2015)
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Further Thoughts Beyond the Blue Horizon (October 11, 2015)
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Beyond the Blue Horizon (October 4, 2015)
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Camera Bag (September 27, 2015)
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Planning Versus Spontaneity (September 20, 2015)
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Everything Ventured, Something May (Or May Not) Be Gained (September 13, 2015)
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Neutral Density Headaches (September 6, 2015)
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How To Eat An Elephant (August 30, 2015)
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Things You Can Find Down on the Ground (August 23, 2015)
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Soft Proofing Doesn't Necessarily Mean Correct Color (August 16, 2015)
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Lumenzia: Luminosity Masking Made Easy (August 9, 2015)
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Shooting Starbursts and Sun Flares (August 2, 2015)
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Auto ISO: Friend or Foe (July 26, 2015)
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Shooting With More Than One Camera (July 19, 2015)
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Like Learning to Ride a Bike? (July 12, 2015)
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Do It Yourself Dehaze (July 5, 2015)
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More On Dehaze (June 28, 2015)
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I Can See Clearly Now, Dehaze is Here (June 21, 2015)
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The Myth of Correct Exposure (June 14, 2015)
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Take Your Camera to Work Day (June 7, 2015)
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Wither Adobe Bridge? (May 31, 2015)
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f/8 and Be There? (May 24, 2015)
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Forget What it Is, What Does it Look Like? (May 17, 2015)
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Lightroom CC versus Lightroom 6 (May 10, 2015)
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A Tale of Two Photographers (May 3, 2015)
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Welcome to the New Lightroom in the Clouds (April 26, 2015)
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The Value of Focusing Rails (and the Welfare of Unsuspecting Ants) (April 19, 2015)
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It's a Small World After All (April 12, 2015)
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Weekend Thoughts on the Important Subject of Lens Caps (April 5, 2015)
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New Focal Field System Can Alter Focal Length Later From Single Exposure (March 29, 2015, updated April 5, 2015)
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Painting Versus Photography (March 22, 2015)
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How Long Do Memory Cards Last? (March 15, 2015)
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Xume Quick Release Filter Adapters: Yeah, Magnets! (March 8, 2015)
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Judging Depth of Field in a Modern Digital World (March 1, 2015)
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Practice for Learning to See (February 22, 2015)
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Never Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow (February 15, 2015)
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Open Wide and Say "Aah!" (February 8, 2015)
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The One That Got Away (February 1, 2015)
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Haze (January 25, 2015)
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Travelers of Both Time and Space (January 18, 2015)
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What the Eye Does Not See (January 11, 2015)
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Two Opposite Ways to Get Out of a Creative Funk (January 4, 2015)
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Happy New Year: The Earthbound Light Top Ten for 2014 (December 28, 2014)
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Lens Myths (December 21, 2014)
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Nikon is Better Than Canon, or is it the Other Way Around? (December 14, 2014)
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What's So Special About Carbon Fiber? (December 7, 2014, updated December 10, 2014)
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How Not to Use a Tripod (November 30, 2014)
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What's in a File Name? (November 23, 2014)
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I Can Just Fix That in Photoshop (November 16, 2014)
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Where Does Creativity Come From? (November 9, 2014)
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Two Versions of Photographic Reality (November 2, 2014)
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More on the Subject of Blinkies (October 26, 2014)
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JPEG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (October 19, 2014, updated October 20, 2014)
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Auto White Balance Versus the Sunset (October 12, 2014)
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I've Got the Blinkies - Is My Display Broken? (October 5, 2014)
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Can You Really Buy a Quality $35 Arca-Compatible Ball Head? (September 28, 2014)
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More on the Coming Lightroom in the (Creative) Clouds (September 21, 2014)
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Lightroom Creative Cloud? (September 14, 2014)
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The Good and Bad of Nikon's Software for Android and iOS (September 7, 2014)
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Reality in the Eye and Camera of the Beholder (August 31, 2014)
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Using EXIF for Troubleshooting Image Problems (August 24, 2014)
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Listening to Music (August 17, 2014)
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The Continuing Story of Lytro (August 10, 2014, updated August 17, 2014)
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Looking for New Places to Shoot in the Internet Age (August 3, 2014)
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Fill Flash Basics for Outdoor Photography (July 27, 2014)
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The Inky Blackness of Space (July 20, 2014)
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Stopping Time: Why We Take Pictures (July 13, 2014)
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Having to Explain Your Photos? (July 6, 2014)
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What Settings Did You Use? (June 29, 2014)
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A Sunny Day (June 22, 2014)
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Should You Upgrade Your Camera? (June 15, 2014)
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Luminance versus RGB Histograms (June 8, 2014)
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Sturdy, Lightweight Tripods and the Search for Bigfoot (June 1, 2014)
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How Many Lenses Do You Need? (May 25, 2014)
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Sharpening is an Optical Illusion (May 18, 2014)
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Aren't Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Really the Same Thing? (May 11, 2014)
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Capture NX-D and the Future of Raw Conversion: Nikon and Nik Part Ways (May 4, 2014)
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So What is a Backside Illuminated Sensor? (April 27, 2014)
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Making Stuff Up and Filling in the Blanks (April 20, 2014)
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The Strangeness of the Internal Lightroom Color Profile (April 13, 2014)
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Choosing a Background First (April 6, 2014)
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Fingerprints On Purpose (March 30, 2014, updated April 1, 2014)
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What to Tackle First? (March 23, 2014)
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Ten Common Digital Darkroom Mistakes (March 16, 2014)
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Ten Common Outdoor Photography Mistakes (March 9, 2014)
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Caring For Your Memory Cards (March 2, 2014)
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Digital Black and White Mistakes (February 23, 2014)
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Give a Man a Fisheye ... (February 16, 2014)
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The Camera (Bag) Adds Ten Pounds (February 9, 2014)
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Contact Sports (February 2, 2014)
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Diplomacy in Action: In Search Of ISO (January 26, 2014)
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The Ongoing Memory Card Battle (January 19, 2014)
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Power to the People (January 12, 2014)
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Sunrise versus Sunset (January 5, 2014)
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Happy New Year: Looking Back on 2013 (December 29, 2013)
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Does "Full Frame" Really Mean Much Anymore? (December 22, 2013)
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"Expose to the Right" May Be Wrong (December 15, 2013)
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The Law of Pause and Effect (December 8, 2013)
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Giving Thanks (December 1, 2013)
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Resolving The Conflict Between Objectivity and Subjectivity (November 24, 2013)
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A Few Megapixel Mega-Myths (November 17, 2013)
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Just How Big is a Pixel? (November 10, 2013)
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Are Raw Image File Formats Archival? (November 3, 2013)
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The Goldilocks Principle in Photography (October 27, 2013)
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Another Earthbound Light PhotoTips Anniversary: 12 Years And Counting (October 20, 2013)
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Does a 50mm Equivalent Lens Really See the Same as a Human? (October 13, 2013)
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Thank You, Captain Scheimpflug (October 6, 2013)
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Breaking Bad (September 29, 2013)
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Just Say No to Exposure Compensation in Manual Exposure Mode (September 22, 2013)
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Why Don't We Shoot Square Format and Crop Later? (September 15, 2013, updated September 21, 2013)
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Capturing Time (September 8, 2013)
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The Relationship of Composition Rules to Good Composition (September 1, 2013)
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The One About Buttons and Knobs (August 25, 2013)
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The Spooky Forest of Resolution Terminology: LPI and DPI and PPI ! Oh, My! (August 18, 2013)
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Beyond Life Size: What Not to Do With a $20 Bill (August 11, 2013)
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The Best Way to Fix Over-Sharpening (August 4, 2013)
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On the Topic of "Format Versus Delete" (July 28, 2013)
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Getting Lost in Filters (July 21, 2013)
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Migrating Keywords Between Photoshop/Bridge and Lightroom (July 14, 2013)
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Are Graduated Neutral Density Filters Obsolete in the Age of HDR? (July 7, 2013)
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More About Monitor Brightness (June 30, 2013)
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Help! My Prints are Too Dark! (June 23, 2013)
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Happy Father's Day (June 16, 2013)
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Creative Cloudy with a Chance of Upgrades? The Continuing Saga (June 9, 2013)
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Tips For Bad Photography (June 2, 2013)
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Will Taking More Photos Up Your Odds? (May 26, 2013)
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Is There a Cloud Hanging Over Your Future? (May 19, 2013)
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Moving Adobe Lightroom to a New Computer (May 12, 2013)
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Lightroom Performance Tips (May 5, 2013)
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The Rest of the Frame (April 28, 2013)
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Lightroom 5 Beta Makes a Good Thing Even Better (April 21, 2013)
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In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams (April 14, 2013)
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The Vast Uncharted Reaches of Color Space (April 7, 2013)
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GorillaPod King Kong Poised to Reach New Heights (March 31, 2013, updated April 1, 2013)
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Performing Unnatural Acts in Photoshop (March 24, 2013)
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Decisions, Decisions (March 17, 2013)
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Your Composition Toolbox (March 10, 2013)
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What Exactly is Accurate Color? (March 3, 2013)
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Should You Keep Everything You Shoot? (February 24, 2013)
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It's the Lighting That Makes the Photograph (February 17, 2013)
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Wandering Around Aimlessly ... On Purpose (February 10, 2013)
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The Updated Develop Controls of Lightroom Process Version 2012 (February 3, 2013)
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Lightroom Process Version 2012: The Case of the Disappearing Recovery and Fill Light Sliders (January 27, 2013)
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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (January 20, 2013)
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Dark Shadows (January 13, 2013)
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New Years Resolutions for Photographers (Updated) (January 6, 2013)
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Happy New Year: The Earthbound Light Top Ten for 2012 (December 30, 2012)
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Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity! (December 23, 2012)
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Luck (December 16, 2012)
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Chimping: The Rise of the Planet of the Apes? (December 9, 2012)
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The Slippery Slope of Digital Editing Addiction (December 2, 2012)
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You're in Control (November 25, 2012)
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You Must Have a Really Good Camera (November 18, 2012)
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My Favorite Images May Not be Your Favorite Images (November 11, 2012)
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Don't Forget the ISO (November 4, 2012)
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Is Exposure Bracketing Obsolete? (October 28, 2012)
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More on Using a Tripod to Help With Composition (October 21, 2012)
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Why Shutter Speed and Aperture Numbers are Upside Down (October 14, 2012)
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The Myth of Being Born with It (October 7, 2012)
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Lessons Learned While Passing Time on Puget Sound Ferry Crossings (September 30, 2012)
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Landscape Photography Should be a Contact Sport (September 23, 2012)
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Soft, Diffuse Lighting (September 16, 2012)
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Front, Back or Side (September 9, 2012)
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The Ins and Outs of Photoshop Layer Groups (September 2, 2012)
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Using the Same Selection for More Than One Adjustment Layer (August 26, 2012)
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The Three Steps of Good Photography (August 19, 2012)
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The Secrets of Photographing Water (August 12, 2012)
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Great Android (and iOS) Tools for Sunrise and Sunset (August 5, 2012)
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My New Favorite Wireless Remote: The RFN-4s (July 29, 2012)
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Hyperfocal Focusing with Digital: Because There's Not Much to See Beyond Infinity (July 22, 2012)
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Un-confusing the Circle of Confusion (July 15, 2012)
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Bigger Memory Cards Versus More Memory Cards (July 8, 2012)
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Breaking the Horizon (July 1, 2012)
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Placing the Horizon with Gusto (June 24, 2012)
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Why I Don't Like Auto-Focus / Auto-Exposure Lock Buttons (June 17, 2012)
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Ten Tips for Buying Camera Gear (June 10, 2012)
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Why Auto-Focus Has a Hard Time with Macro (June 3, 2012)
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Why Matrix Metering Makes Learning to Meter More Difficult (May 27, 2012)
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Manual Metering Doesn't Have to Mean Using a Gray Card (May 20, 2012)
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A Square Peg in a Round Hole (May 13, 2012, updated May 14, 2012)
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After Converting to 8-Bit, Can You Go Back to 16 Bits Per Channel? (May 6, 2012)
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What About 16-Bit for Printing? (April 29, 2012)
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The New Lytro Paperweight for Windows, or the Tale of a Disappointed Windows User (April 22, 2012, updated July 24, 2012)
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When Shooting in RAW, What Color Space Should You Use? (April 15, 2012)
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Where Do Images Go When You Import Them to Lightroom? (April 8, 2012)
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Kodak's New Secret Weapon (April 1, 2012)
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Some Thoughts on the Beta Release of Photoshop CS6 (March 25, 2012)
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Drive and Inspiration (March 18, 2012)
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Mood (March 11, 2012)
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Joby Gorillapod Focus: The True Gorilla of Gorillapods (March 4, 2012)
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Bicubic Smoother versus Bicubic Sharper, and Which You Should Really Use (February 26, 2012)
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Stopping an Adjustment Layer from Affecting Everything Underneath (February 19, 2012)
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The Confusion of Unsynchronized Adobe Color Settings (February 12, 2012)
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Exposure Versus Brightness (February 5, 2012)
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DxO Optics Pro Version 7: Faster and Better (January 29, 2012)
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Preventing Gray Snow in the Digital Age (January 22, 2012)
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Lightroom 4 Finally Gets Soft Proofing! (January 15, 2012)
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What Does the Nikon D4 Announcement Mean for Nature Photographers? (January 8, 2012)
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Happy New Year: The Earthbound Light Best of 2011 (January 1, 2012)
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Does Good Photography Come From the Left Brain or the Right Brain? (December 25, 2011)
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2011 Holiday Gifts for Photographers (December 18, 2011)
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Lightroom Virtual Copies and Snapshots (December 11, 2011)
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The Lightroom Paintbrush Tool (December 4, 2011)
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The Photoshop Paintbrush Tool for Photographers (November 27, 2011)
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Blending Modes for Photographers (November 20, 2011)
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Gamut Warnings and What to Do About Them (November 13, 2011)
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Remembering How You Did it in Photoshop (November 6, 2011)
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What the Heck is Metamerism? (October 30, 2011)
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Lytro: Very Cool, and not Like Any Camera You've Ever Used Before (October 23, 2011, updated October 30, 2011)
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Happy Anniversary! Ten Years of Earthbound Light PhotoTips (October 16, 2011)
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Customizing Adobe Bridge (October 9, 2011)
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On Location (October 2, 2011)
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Breeze Systems Downloader Pro Really is a Pro (September 25, 2011)
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Working with Metadata Templates in Adobe Bridge (September 18, 2011)
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Using an Image as its Own Photoshop Layer Mask (September 11, 2011)
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Seeing Beyond the Apparent (September 4, 2011)
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Going Ultra W-I-D-E (August 28, 2011)
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Masking with your Hand for Shooting into the Sun (August 21, 2011)
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Waiting for the Shot (August 14, 2011)
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Shooting Into the Sun (August 7, 2011)
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Managing Your Photoshop Workspace (July 31, 2011)
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Importing Photos into Lightroom (July 24, 2011)
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Lightroom 3 Noise Reduction (July 17, 2011)
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More Lightroom Panel Tips and Tricks (July 10, 2011)
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Lightroom Panel Tips and Tricks (July 3, 2011)
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Cropping and Rotating Images in Adobe Lightroom (June 26, 2011, updated June 27, 2011)
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More on Sharpening in Adobe Lightroom 3 (June 19, 2011)
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Sharpening in Adobe Lightroom 3 (June 12, 2011)
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Learning to Drive Your Camera (June 5, 2011)
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Back to the Future: Fixing Editing Mistakes with the Photoshop History Brush (May 29, 2011)
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Stacking and Stitching: So is All This Real Photography? (May 22, 2011)
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Stacking and Stitching: An Overview of Multi-Shot Techniques (May 15, 2011)
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Focus Stacking: Getting the Shots in the First Place (May 8, 2011, updated May 9, 2011)
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Options for Focus Stacking Software (May 1, 2011)
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Focus Stacking: Breaking the Depth of Field Barrier (April 24, 2011, updated May 1, 2011)
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On The Level: Making Peace with Crooked Horizons (April 17, 2011)
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Remote Controls Aren't Just for Television Sets (April 10, 2011)
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Wherever You Go, There You Are (April 3, 2011)
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Adobe Plans to Rebrand, Repackage Photoshop and Lightroom (March 27, 2011, updated April 1, 2011)
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SNS-HDR: An Easy Way to Get Natural Looking HDR Images (March 20, 2011)
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Clarifying the Clarity Slider (March 13, 2011)
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Photomatix Pro 4 vs. Nik HDR Efex Pro vs. Oloneo PhotoEngine Beta (March 6, 2011)
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What the Heck is HDR Tone Mapping? (February 27, 2011)
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The Road to HDR: A Bit About Bits and What They Get Used For in Digital Photography (February 20, 2011)
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My Experiences with Nik HDR Efex Pro (February 13, 2011)
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Using Photoshop Elements with Adobe Lightroom (February 6, 2011)
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Thinking in Color with CHROMIX ColorThink (January 30, 2011)
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Epson Stylus Pro 4900 Review: Hands On First Impressions (January 23, 2011)
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Photoshop Elements 9 Finally Gets Real Layer Masks (January 16, 2011)
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Geotagging in Adobe Lightroom (January 9, 2011)
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Happy New Year: A Chance to Revisit Your Old Images (January 2, 2011)
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The 2010 Earthbound Light Top Ten List (December 26, 2010)
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Sync Settings and Auto Sync in the Lightroom Develop Module (December 19, 2010)
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Lightroom Develop Versus Quick Develop (December 12, 2010)
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Moving Images in Adobe Lightroom (December 5, 2010)
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More Cool Gifts for Photographers and Other Cool People (November 28, 2010)
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Lightroom versus Photoshop versus Camera Raw versus Bridge (November 21, 2010)
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The Perfect Watch for a Nature Photographer (November 14, 2010)
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Mushroom Photography Season (November 7, 2010)
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Dust Removal in Adobe Lightroom (October 31, 2010)
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Seeing What's in Front of You (October 24, 2010)
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Shooting Quickly versus Thinking More (October 17, 2010)
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How to Get Your Fall Color Images to Look Like the Fall Colors You See (October 10, 2010)
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Neither Snow, nor Rain, nor Gloom of Night (October 3, 2010)
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Some Thoughts on Selecting and Feathering in Photoshop (September 26, 2010)
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Some Thoughts on Exposure in the Era of Digital Photography (September 19, 2010)
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What is a Gray Market Lens? (September 12, 2010)
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Printing Tips for Adobe Lightroom (September 5, 2010)
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Color Management in Adobe Lightroom (August 29, 2010)
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Adobe Lightroom's Equivalent of "Save For Web" (August 22, 2010)
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File / Save Missing From Lightroom? (August 15, 2010)
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Desperately Seeking Foreground (August 8, 2010)
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Not All Knee Pads are Created Equal (August 1, 2010)
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Getting Down With It: Bending Your Knees for the Best Shots (July 25, 2010)
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Photoshop CS5 Content-Aware Fill is Magic (July 18, 2010)
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Photoshop Tall and Thin, Big and Flat: New Cache Tile Optimization Options in CS5 (July 11, 2010)
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A Bridge Just Far Enough: Adobe CS5 Mini Bridge (July 4, 2010)
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Preventing and Resolving Photoshop CS5 Installation Problems (June 27, 2010)
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Scripting with the Photoshop ScriptListener Plug-in (June 20, 2010)
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Scripting with the ExtendScript Toolkit (June 13, 2010)
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Creating Your First Script in Photoshop (June 6, 2010)
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Intro to Photoshop Scripting (May 30, 2010)
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More on Photoshop Actions (May 23, 2010)
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Lights, Camera, ... Photoshop Actions! (May 16, 2010)
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Backing up the Adobe Lightroom Catalog (May 9, 2010)
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Photoshop CS5 Hand On Preview for Photographers (May 2, 2010)
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More on Photoshop Selection (April 25, 2010)
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A Selection of Selection Tips (April 18, 2010)
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Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2 (April 11, 2010)
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Photoshop Smart and Raw (April 4, 2010)
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Apple Rumored to be Readying iPad Camera Edition for Thursday Announcement (March 28, 2010, updated April 1, 2010)
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DSLR versus Compact Point-n-Shoot Camera - Ten Reasons to Favor Each (March 21, 2010)
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Rummaging Around in the Lightroom Database (March 14, 2010)
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The Twilight Zone: Shooting After the Sun Goes Down (March 7, 2010)
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Adobe Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts (February 28, 2010)
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Photoshop at Twenty ... and Beyond! (February 21, 2010)
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Kestrel Meters: Keeping Track of the Weather in the Field (February 14, 2010)
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Organizing and Simplifying Through Stacking in Bridge and Lightroom (February 7, 2010)
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Some Thoughts on Localized Adjustments During Raw Conversion (January 31, 2010)
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Camera Raw Tricks and Underused Features (January 24, 2010)
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Solving Monitor Profiling Problems (January 17, 2010)
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Soft Proofing Isn't Hard (January 10, 2010)
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Fixing a Clogged Printer (January 3, 2010)
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The 2009 Earthbound Light Top Ten List (December 27, 2009)
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Why Won't the Patch Tool Work Near the Edge? (December 20, 2009)
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X-Rite ColorMunki Photo Knows More Than One Trick (December 13, 2009, updated December 23, 2009)
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Focus! (December 6, 2009)
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When Red Flowers Turn Into Red Blobs (November 29, 2009)
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Really Smart Sharpening (November 22, 2009, updated November 26, 2009)
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Help! My Photoshop Cursors are Messed Up! (November 15, 2009)
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Using Both Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom (November 8, 2009, updated November 10, 2009)
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Adobe Lightroom 3 Public Beta (November 1, 2009, updated November 21, 2009)
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Why I Don't Like Sunset Filters (October 25, 2009)
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Taking Notes in Photoshop (October 18, 2009)
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Moving From Color Manglement to Color Management (October 11, 2009)
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Ken Burns' "National Parks" is a Good Idea Indeed (October 4, 2009, updated November 26, 2009)
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Earthbound Light Comes to Facebook and Site Updates (September 27, 2009)
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Nikon Lens Designation Alphabet Soup (September 20, 2009)
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Making Better Images With The Photographic Triangle (September 13, 2009)
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Shooting Raw Doesn't Necessarily Mean You Should Be Lazy (September 6, 2009)
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Color Management in Mozilla Firefox (August 30, 2009, updated August 31, 2009)
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Why f/2.8? (August 23, 2009)
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Monitor Aspect Ratio versus Resolution (August 16, 2009)
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Photoshop Working (Space) Behind the Scenes (August 9, 2009)
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How Big is Your Adjustment Window? (August 2, 2009)
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Digital Editing: Where Do You Draw The Line? (July 26, 2009)
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TIFF Byte Order: Mac or PC? (July 19, 2009)
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The Filter Trap (July 12, 2009)
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Skreenz - For When You Don't Want to be Bugged While Camping Anymore (July 5, 2009)
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Replacement Lens Feet (June 28, 2009)
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Some Random Thoughts on Superman and Photoshop Curves (June 21, 2009)
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The Intimate Landscape (June 14, 2009)
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What Kind of Camera Bag Works Best? (June 7, 2009)
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A Few Thoughts on Tripod Bags (May 31, 2009)
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A SureFire Way to Save on CR123A Batteries (May 24, 2009)
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Controlling Photoshop History (May 17, 2009)
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Wacom Intuos4 Rocks (May 10, 2009)
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Camera Raw Dust Spot Removal (May 3, 2009)
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Photoshop CS4 64-bit Versus 32-bit (April 26, 2009)
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Getting a Nikon Scanner to Run on 64-bit Vista (April 19, 2009, updated November 14, 2009)
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Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts (April 12, 2009)
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You Can't Always Believe What You Read (April 5, 2009)
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New Nikon D4.1 Digital SLR to be Announced This Week (March 29, 2009, updated April 1, 2009)
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A Circular Polarizer Doesn't Doesn't Have to be Round, and Vice Versa (March 22, 2009)
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RAID in the Digital Darkroom (March 15, 2009)
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In Camera Sharpening: The Case For and Against (March 8, 2009)
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The Missing Photoshop Help Manuals (March 1, 2009)
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GPU Acceleration: A Killer Reason to Upgrade to CS4 (February 22, 2009)
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Choices, Choices: Photoshop CS4 Standard versus Extended versus the Creative Suite Options (February 15, 2009, updated February 16, 2009)
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What is the Best Aperture to Use? (February 8, 2009)
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The Photoshop CS4 Masks Panel: Another Great Innovation (February 1, 2009)
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Color Management Changes in Photoshop CS4 (January 25, 2009)
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New Review Mode in Adobe Bridge CS4 (January 18, 2009)
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Iterative Composition (January 11, 2009)
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Dodge, Burn and Sponge, the Photoshop CS4 Way (January 4, 2009)
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Love 'Em or Hate 'Em, Photoshop Now Has Tabs (December 28, 2008)
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Monitor Covers and Screen Protectors for Cameras (December 21, 2008)
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Targeted Adjustments come to Adobe Camera Raw (December 14, 2008)
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Cool Gifts for Photographers and Other Cool People (December 7, 2008, updated March 19, 2009)
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DxOMark.com Sensor Rankings Website (November 30, 2008)
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Should You "Maximize Compatibility" in Photoshop? (November 23, 2008)
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Are Adjustment Layers Really Still Necessary in 16-bit? (November 16, 2008)
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Phottix Cleon Wireless/Wired Remote (November 9, 2008)
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Shadows and Highlights, the Easy Way (November 2, 2008)
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What to do with Lens Caps (October 26, 2008)
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Nature Weekends: Ideas for Where to Go (October 19, 2008)
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If it Sounds too Good to be True ... is it? (October 12, 2008)
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Shopping for Camera Gear: Is It Safe to Buy Online? (October 5, 2008)
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A Use for Old Slide Mounts (September 28, 2008)
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When Perceptual Rendering Intent isn't Really Perceptual (September 21, 2008)
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Transform Your World (Or Warp It, If You Prefer) (September 14, 2008)
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Looking at the World through Fish Eyes (September 7, 2008)
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Finding Your Way around Photoshop with the Navigator (August 31, 2008)
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Color Management: Calibrating versus Profiling (August 24, 2008)
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Get Ready For SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ... and a New Version of FireWire Too (August 17, 2008)
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Nikon COOLPIX P6000: Finally a New Pro-Quality COOLPIX? (August 10, 2008)
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Right to Left, or Left to Right: The Choice is Now Yours (Finally) (August 3, 2008)
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When Black and White Are Gray (July 27, 2008)
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The Camera's Meter Compared to The Histogram (July 20, 2008)
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Help! All My Images Are The Wrong Color! (July 13, 2008)
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Nikon D700, Firmware Updates for the D3 and D300, and Other Nikon News (July 6, 2008)
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Getting Rid of Dust Spots (June 29, 2008, updated July 1, 2008)
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Nikon's Mysterious r00 Error and Other "r" Numbers (June 22, 2008)
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Copyright is More than Just a Symbol (June 15, 2008, updated July 13, 2008)
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The Copyright Symbol (June 8, 2008, updated June 15, 2008)
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Color Balance Adjustment with Curves (June 1, 2008)
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Color Balance Adjustment with Levels (May 25, 2008)
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Tweaking Color Balance in Photoshop (May 18, 2008)
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My Old D2x Versus my New D300 (May 11, 2008)
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Variations on a Theme (May 4, 2008)
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Photoshop Selection: Winning Against the Marching Ants (April 27, 2008)
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Seeing Double in Photoshop (April 20, 2008)
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Up and Down, Forward and Back, Left and Right (April 13, 2008)
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Shaking the Sensor (April 6, 2008)
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PhotoME - EXIF and IPTC Metadata Editor (March 30, 2008)
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I Actually Like Nikon ViewNX (March 23, 2008, updated March 24, 2008)
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Civil, Nautical, or Astronomical? (March 16, 2008)
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Digital Zoom versus Optical Zoom (March 9, 2008)
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Nikon USA Starts a Blog! (March 2, 2008)
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Smart Filters: Photoshop Gets a Bit Smarter (February 24, 2008)
|
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Color Management Printing Changes in Photoshop CS3 (February 17, 2008)
|
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Printing Changes in Photoshop CS3 (February 10, 2008)
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Why Does the Epson Print Preview Image Look so Bad? (February 3, 2008)
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Some Thoughts on Being in the Right Place at the Right Time (January 27, 2008)
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14-bit Raw Versus 12-bit Raw: Further Analysis and Comparison (January 20, 2008)
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Are 14-bit Raw Images Really Any Better Than 12-bit Raw? (January 13, 2008, updated January 14, 2008)
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Gorillapod: Searching for a Good, Small Outdoor Tripod (January 6, 2008, updated January 12, 2008)
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Top 10 List of Most Popular PhotoTip Articles of 2007 (December 30, 2007)
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Does Having Four Right-Angle Finders Mean I'm Going in Circles? (December 23, 2007)
|
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The Slow Passing Away of Nikon Color Modes (December 16, 2007)
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D300 and D3 Sensor Cleaning Warning (December 9, 2007, updated December 13, 2007)
|
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Camera Raw CS3: Highlight Recovery and Fill Light (December 2, 2007)
|
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Beyond Normal: Multiply and Screen Blending Mode (November 25, 2007)
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Dirty Lens Caps Mean Dirty Lenses (November 18, 2007, updated December 6, 2007)
|
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The Incredible Collapsing Tool Palette (November 11, 2007)
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Breaking the Law of Reciprocity (November 4, 2007, updated December 4, 2007)
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A Familiar Tool Palette for Photoshop CS3 (October 28, 2007)
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Beyond the Channel Mixer: Black and White in Photoshop CS3 (October 21, 2007)
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Finally, Brightness and Contrast that Actually Work! (October 14, 2007)
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Cooler Curves Come to Photoshop CS3 (October 7, 2007)
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Vibrance! (September 30, 2007)
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Tripod Head Maintenance for Smooth Operation (September 23, 2007)
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Where Does Color Come From? (September 16, 2007)
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What Do Those Symbols after the File Name Mean in Photoshop's Title Bar? (September 9, 2007)
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Nikon's Other Big Announcement: The New Lenses And the Lenses I Wish Nikon Would Announce (September 2, 2007)
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First Thoughts on Nikon's Big Announcement (August 26, 2007, updated March 10, 2008)
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Are "Nikon sRGB" and "Nikon Adobe RGB" the same as the Real Thing? (August 19, 2007)
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Troubleshooting Photoshop CS3 Installation Problems (August 12, 2007)
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I Bought a Digital Camera but my Photos are Still Blurry (August 5, 2007)
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Clean Your Camera Bag! (July 29, 2007)
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Dye versus Pigment Ink Printers (July 22, 2007)
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Soft Edged or Hard Edged? (July 15, 2007)
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Can't I Just Reverse a Regular Graduated ND Filter? (July 8, 2007, updated July 24, 2007)
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Taming Auto Color so it does What You Want it to (July 1, 2007)
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Playing with Photoshop's Auto Color (June 24, 2007)
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Lens Elements and Groups (June 17, 2007)
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Compact Flash versus Micro Drives (June 10, 2007)
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Program versus Aperture Priority versus Shutter Priority versus Manual Exposure (June 3, 2007)
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Why In-camera Black and White is a Bad Idea (May 27, 2007, updated June 5, 2007)
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Mirror Lock-up (May 20, 2007, updated June 5, 2007)
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Camera Straps (May 13, 2007)
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A Pocket Full of Compact Flash Cards (May 6, 2007, updated June 5, 2007)
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Digital Blending with a Layer Mask (April 29, 2007)
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Creative Sharpening with a Layer Mask (April 22, 2007)
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Layer Masks on an Image Layer (April 15, 2007)
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Adjustment Layer Plus Layer Mask Equals Ultimate Flexibility (April 8, 2007)
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Photoshop Adjustment Layers 101 (April 1, 2007)
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Why Color Management is Like Setting Your Clocks (March 25, 2007)
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Predicting the Restless Tides (March 18, 2007)
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Curves for Photoshop Elements 4 and Above (March 11, 2007, updated January 8, 2008)
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Spring Forward, Fall Back: Remember to Set Your Camera's Clock Too (March 4, 2007, updated March 17, 2007)
|
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Really Useful Software Preview Extractor (February 25, 2007)
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So Where Does Your Monitor Profile Go? (February 18, 2007)
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Photoshop Color Management Warnings and What They Do (February 11, 2007)
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Photoshop Color Management Policies in Detail (February 4, 2007, updated April 2, 2007)
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Working with Perspective, Subject Distance and Focal Length (January 28, 2007)
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Wimberley Sidekick: A Solution to a Problem You May Not Even Know You Have (January 21, 2007, updated January 27, 2007)
|
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New Gitzo Tripods for 2007 (January 14, 2007)
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The Freedom to Make Mistakes (January 7, 2007)
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Ready Or Not, Here Comes Photoshop CS3 (December 31, 2006)
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The Skies Have It (December 24, 2006)
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Rescuing Lost or Damaged Digital Images (December 17, 2006, updated March 20, 2007)
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Preset White Balance on Nikon Digital SLR Cameras (December 10, 2006, updated January 22, 2007)
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Nikon DK-17M and DK-21M Magnifying Eyepieces (December 3, 2006)
|
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Doing Even More with Luminosity Masks (November 26, 2006)
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Another Photoshop Masking Technique: Luminosity Masking (November 19, 2006)
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Contrast Masking in Photoshop (November 12, 2006)
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Three Cheers for the Gold-N-Blue (November 5, 2006)
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Just What is a "Digital Lens"? (October 29, 2006)
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Celebrating Another Anniversary: Five Years of PhotoTips (October 22, 2006)
|
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Photomatix HDR Tone Mapping Plug-in (October 15, 2006)
|
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When to Change Epson Inkjet Cartridges (October 8, 2006)
|
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Dealing with Untagged RGB Files (October 1, 2006)
|
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Photographing Fall Colors (September 24, 2006)
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Photoshop CS2's Secret Hidden Image Processor (September 17, 2006, updated September 21, 2006)
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The Monitor Color Temperature Question (September 10, 2006)
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The Gamma Question: 1.8 or 2.2 ? (September 3, 2006)
|
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Color Management: Scanner and Digital Camera Profiling (August 27, 2006)
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Speeding up Photoshop CS2 (August 20, 2006)
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Improving Local Contrast with Unsharp Mask (August 13, 2006)
|
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The Fine Art of Carrying a Tripod (August 6, 2006, updated August 13, 2006)
|
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Adjusting the Tension on Nikon Right-angle Viewfinders (July 30, 2006)
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Help with Remembering Things in Photoshop (July 23, 2006)
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Color Management in Nikon Capture NX (July 16, 2006, updated April 27, 2007)
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Nikon Capture NX: Hands On and Second Thoughts (July 9, 2006, updated September 1, 2006)
|
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Photographing Fireworks (July 2, 2006, updated July 25, 2006)
|
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Cokin P-sized versus the Larger Lee-sized Graduated ND Filters (June 25, 2006, updated June 26, 2006)
|
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DxO Optics Pro Review (June 18, 2006, updated July 10, 2006)
|
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Thoughts on the new Nikon D2Xs from a D2x Owner (June 11, 2006, updated October 4, 2006)
|
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Three Leg Sections or Four: Choosing a Tripod (June 4, 2006, updated January 22, 2007)
|
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A Photoshop History Lesson (May 28, 2006)
|
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Macro Photography without Hurting Yourself (May 21, 2006)
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Photoshop Levels versus Curves: Which Should You Use? (May 14, 2006)
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Tripod Leg Wraps and Padding Solutions (May 7, 2006)
|
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April Showers Bring the Need for Camera Rain Protection (April 30, 2006, updated June 11, 2006)
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Adding or Replacing a Tripod Quick Release Clamp, Part 2 (April 23, 2006)
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Adding or Replacing a Tripod Quick Release Clamp, Part 1 (April 16, 2006)
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Diffraction: When Smaller Apertures No Longer Mean Sharper Pictures (April 9, 2006, updated April 30, 2006)
|
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SpinRite Saves the Day (and my Hard Drive) (April 2, 2006)
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Curvemeister 2 is Curves on Steroids (March 26, 2006)
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More on Factoring In the Crop Factor: Hand Holding (March 19, 2006, updated December 28, 2007)
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More on Factoring In the Crop Factor: Depth of Field (March 12, 2006, updated December 28, 2007)
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Factoring in the Digital Crop Factor (March 5, 2006, updated December 28, 2007)
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Nikon Capture NX: First Thoughts (February 26, 2006, updated December 28, 2007)
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Changing Focusing Screens on Nikon SLR Cameras (February 19, 2006, updated September 30, 2006)
|
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Digital Black and White in Nikon Capture (February 12, 2006)
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OpenRAW Survey (February 5, 2006)
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What About ProPhoto RGB? (January 29, 2006, updated September 21, 2008)
|
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The Great sRGB Versus Adobe RGB Debate (January 22, 2006)
|
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More on Hue/Saturation in Photoshop (January 15, 2006)
|
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Fine Tuning Saturation in Photoshop (January 8, 2006)
|
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New Years Resolutions for Photographers (January 1, 2006)
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Why Do We Do It? (December 25, 2005)
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Last Minute Holiday Shopping Ideas (December 18, 2005)
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Copying Images from Your Camera to Your Computer (December 11, 2005)
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Nikon D2x Firmware Update Experiences (December 4, 2005, updated October 5, 2006)
|
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From Black and White to Duotones (November 27, 2005)
|
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More on Black and White in the Digital Darkroom (November 20, 2005)
|
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Digital Black and White in Photoshop (November 13, 2005, updated August 20, 2006)
|
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Camera Clubs (November 6, 2005)
|
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New Windows XP Color Control Panel from Microsoft (October 30, 2005, updated November 3, 2005)
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Photoshop Save for Web versus Save As JPEG (October 23, 2005, updated April 3, 2006)
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Adobe RGB is not a Monitor Profile (October 16, 2005)
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Loctite (October 9, 2005)
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Printer Resolution versus Image Resolution (October 2, 2005)
|
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Digital Camera Resolution versus Film Scanner Resolution (September 25, 2005)
|
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The Amazing, Incredible Crop Tool (September 18, 2005)
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Hurricane Katrina and the Power of Photography (September 11, 2005)
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Resizing and Resampling in Photoshop (September 4, 2005)
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How Can You Have "Dots Per Inch" if You Don't Have Inches? (August 28, 2005)
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Troubleshooting Nikon Capture Problems (August 21, 2005, updated July 15, 2006)
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Raw to Cooked with the Nikon Capture Editor (August 14, 2005, updated February 22, 2006)
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Nikon Color Modes on Your Computer (August 7, 2005, updated June 18, 2006)
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The Story of Nikon Color Modes (July 31, 2005, updated January 15, 2006)
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The Zen of White Balance (July 24, 2005)
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Correcting White Balance in Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw (July 17, 2005, updated July 21, 2005)
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If it's Called "White Balance," Why Do People Use Gray Cards? (July 10, 2005)
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Dodging and Burning in the Digital Darkroom (July 3, 2005, updated July 4, 2005)
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Upgrading Photoshop Actions, Plug-Ins, and other Odds and Ends (June 26, 2005)
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Epson Keeps Releasing New Printers (June 19, 2005)
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The Broken Cable Release Problem ... and Solution (June 12, 2005)
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Coloring and Customizing Menus in Photoshop CS2 (June 5, 2005)
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Photoshop HDR 32-bit Format: The Dawn of a New Era? (May 29, 2005, updated October 15, 2006)
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Exposure Adjustment in Photoshop CS2 (May 22, 2005)
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Color Management Changes in Photoshop CS2 (May 15, 2005)
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Advanced Sharpening in Adobe Photoshop (May 8, 2005)
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The High Pass Way to Sharpen in Photoshop (May 1, 2005)
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Behind the Unsharp Mask: The Secret World of Sharpening (April 24, 2005, updated March 10, 2007)
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Spring Cleaning Time: Selling Used Camera Equipment (April 17, 2005)
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Adobe Camera Raw: Saving Conversion Settings (April 10, 2005)
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The Adobe Camera Raw Detail Tab (April 3, 2005)
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Raw to Cooked with Adobe Camera Raw (March 27, 2005, updated March 28, 2005)
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What to Make of Adobe's New DNG Raw Format (March 20, 2005, updated November 10, 2009)
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Some RAW Files Aren't so Raw After All (March 13, 2005)
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Just What is a RAW File Anyway? (March 6, 2005)
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File Formats for Digital Imaging (February 27, 2005, updated December 4, 2007)
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Another Good Way to Clean Your Lenses, and Several Ways Not To (February 20, 2005)
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It's Lens Cleaning Time (February 13, 2005)
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Sensor Cleaning: Where Is That Dust Hiding, and What Do I Do About It? (February 6, 2005, updated June 12, 2005)
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Color Management: The Eyeglasses Analogy (January 30, 2005)
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Color Management Answers for Photoshop Elements (January 23, 2005, updated October 6, 2005)
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Stealing Contrast with Photoshop Curves (January 16, 2005)
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Curves, Curves, Everywhere Curves (January 9, 2005)
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Curves (and Other Goodies) for Photoshop Elements (January 2, 2005, updated March 11, 2007)
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Photoshop Curves: Stepping Up From Levels (December 26, 2004)
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More on Photoshop Levels (December 19, 2004)
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The 1-2-3 of Photoshop Levels (December 12, 2004)
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Just Say "No" to Brightness and Contrast in Photoshop (December 5, 2004, updated October 14, 2007)
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Your Friend, the Histogram (November 28, 2004)
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More on the Subject of 8-bit Versus 16-bit (November 21, 2004, updated July 31, 2005)
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More Than a Bit of a Difference: 8-bit Versus 16-bit (November 14, 2004, updated December 4, 2007)
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Matrix Metering with Digital (November 7, 2004)
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The Exposure "Stops" Here (October 31, 2004)
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The Rule of Thirds (October 24, 2004, updated January 11, 2005)
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Keeping Your Hands Warm While Shooting (October 17, 2004)
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The Hyperfocal T-Shirt (October 10, 2004)
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Nikon at Photokina and the New Nikon D2x (October 3, 2004)
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Three Common Problems with Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop CS (September 26, 2004, updated October 7, 2006)
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Ever Get a Filter Stuck on Your Lens? (September 19, 2004, updated August 23, 2005)
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EXIF Reader Software (September 12, 2004, updated March 14, 2005)
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Restoring Nikon NEF Thumbnails Under Windows XP Service Pack 2 (September 5, 2004, updated June 26, 2005)
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Photography Dictionaries and Definitions (August 29, 2004)
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Close-up: Resources for Further Information (August 22, 2004)
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Close-up: Chasing (and Hopefully Photographing) Butterflies (August 15, 2004)
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Close-up: Macro on the Cheap (August 8, 2004)
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Close-up: Working in the Field (August 1, 2004)
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Close-up: Macro Flash Brackets (July 25, 2004)
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Close-up: Lighting for Macro (July 18, 2004)
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Close-up: Focusing Rails (July 11, 2004)
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Close-up: Depth of Field and the Film Plane (July 4, 2004)
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Close-up: Angle of View, Working Distance & Background Control (June 27, 2004)
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Close-up: Choices, Choices and More Choices (June 20, 2004)
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Close-up: Stacking, Reversing and Other Lens Gymnastics (June 13, 2004)
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Close-up: Adding Extension (June 6, 2004)
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Close-up: Building on a Solid Foundation (May 30, 2004)
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Close-up: Larger Than Life (May 23, 2004)
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Close-up: Welcome to the World of Macro (May 16, 2004)
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My Quest for the Perfect Tripod Head (May 9, 2004, updated September 4, 2005)
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Help! My Printer Stopped Printing in the Middle! (May 2, 2004)
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The Problem with Teleconverter (and Some Other) Caps (April 25, 2004)
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Searching, Subscribing and Syndication (April 18, 2004)
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Color Management: Troubleshooting Common Problems (April 11, 2004, updated October 28, 2006)
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Color Management: Converting versus Assigning (April 4, 2004, updated October 28, 2006)
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Color Management: Printing Without Pain, Part 2 (March 28, 2004)
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Color Management: Printing Without Pain, Part 1 (March 21, 2004, updated March 1, 2005)
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Color Management: Monitor Profiling (March 14, 2004, updated June 11, 2006)
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Color Management: Photoshop Color Settings (March 7, 2004)
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Color Management: A Question of Intent (February 29, 2004)
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Color Management: Color Models, Color Spaces and Color Profiles (February 22, 2004, updated January 11, 2005)
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Color Management: Feeling Lost? (February 15, 2004)
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Silhouettes (February 8, 2004)
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Right-angle Finder for the Nikon D100 (February 1, 2004)
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Composition: Putting it All Together (January 25, 2004)
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Composition: Pre-visualization (January 18, 2004)
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Composition: Equipment Notes (January 11, 2004)
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Composition: Some Thoughts on Subject Matter (January 4, 2004)
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Composition: Putting Things in Perspective (December 28, 2003)
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Composition: A Look at Color (December 21, 2003)
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Composition: Thinking Graphically (December 14, 2003)
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Composition: What Do You Want To Say? (December 7, 2003)
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Good News For Photographers Who Fly (November 30, 2003)
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Uneven Polarization with Wide Angle Lenses (November 23, 2003)
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Further Thoughts on Photoshop CS Activation (November 16, 2003)
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Three Simple Tips for Sunsets (November 9, 2003)
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UV, Haze, or Skylight? (November 2, 2003)
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No More Film in My Refrigerator (October 26, 2003)
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Photoshop CS Review (October 19, 2003)
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Always Shooting at One End or the Other? (October 12, 2003)
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Does the D100 Have A Shutter Lag? (October 5, 2003)
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Do You Really Need a Circular Polarizer? (September 28, 2003)
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Some Thoughts on Bracketing (September 21, 2003)
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Compressed versus Uncompressed NEF (September 14, 2003)
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Which Macro Lens? (September 7, 2003)
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Avoiding Computer Viruses and Other Nasty Things (August 31, 2003)
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The Search for a Good Dust Blower (August 24, 2003)
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Squint (August 17, 2003)
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Overcoming Experimentation Anxiety with Digital (August 10, 2003)
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Zooms For Landscapes (August 3, 2003)
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Are Filters Still Needed for Digital? (July 27, 2003, updated February 22, 2006)
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Caps for Nikon Polarizers (July 20, 2003)
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Digital File Sizes: Not All Pixels are Created Equal (July 13, 2003)
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A Day at the Beach with Your Camera (July 6, 2003, updated March 20, 2004)
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Tripod Leveling Bases: Panning on the Level (June 29, 2003)
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Tripod Short Center Columns (June 22, 2003)
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Compact Flash versus Microdrives (June 15, 2003)
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Close-Up Diopters (June 8, 2003, updated March 5, 2006)
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Find Yourself a Heavenly Opportunity (June 1, 2003, updated December 4, 2007)
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Kirk versus Really Right Stuff - An Update (May 25, 2003)
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Decoding Neutral Density Filter Designations (May 18, 2003)
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Digital Exposure by Trial and Error (May 11, 2003)
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Backup Your Data! (May 4, 2003)
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Technical Skills versus Composition (April 27, 2003)
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The FEE for Not Locking the Aperture (April 20, 2003)
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What About Exposure Compensation? (April 13, 2003)
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Should You Calibrate Your Camera's Meter? (April 6, 2003)
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Getting De-Programmed: Learning About Manual Exposure (March 30, 2003)
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Breaking Free of "The Matrix" (Metering, That Is) (March 23, 2003)
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Print Film or Slide Film: The Big Decision (March 16, 2003)
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Velvia: ISO 50 or 40 ... or How About 100 Speed ? (March 9, 2003, updated February 10, 2005)
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Being in the Moment (March 2, 2003)
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Reciprocity What? (February 23, 2003)
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North American Nature Photography Association (February 16, 2003)
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Starburst Effects (February 9, 2003, updated August 4, 2009)
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F/stop Isn't Really an "F" Word (February 2, 2003)
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Photofocus - The Online Magazine for Serious Image Makers (January 26, 2003, updated September 9, 2006)
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Out Darned Spot! (January 19, 2003)
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The Ever-worsening JPEG Phenomenon (January 12, 2003, updated September 10, 2006)
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Looking for the Swiss-Army Lens (January 5, 2003)
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Linear or Circular Polarizer, How Can You Tell? (December 29, 2002)
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It's Winter ... Again! (December 22, 2002)
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Nikon's new "DX" Lenses for Digital SLR's (December 15, 2002, updated December 28, 2007)
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Petzl Headlamps (December 8, 2002)
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Hyperfocal Hocus Pocus (December 1, 2002, updated October 15, 2004)
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Getting to Digital One Step at a Time (November 24, 2002)
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Viewfinder Diopter Adjustment (November 17, 2002)
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Making Lemonade From Lemons (November 10, 2002)
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Camera L Plates ("L" is for "Liberating") (November 3, 2002)
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Passion (October 27, 2002)
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The Official Celebratory One-Year Anniversary PhotoTip (October 20, 2002)
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Time to Start Thinking Digitally? (October 13, 2002)
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Carpe Diem (October 6, 2002)
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The Mountaineers (September 29, 2002)
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Essential Filters: Further Thoughts (September 22, 2002)
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Essential Filters: Warming Filters (September 15, 2002)
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Essential Filters: Polarizers (September 8, 2002)
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Essential Filters: Neutral Density and Graduated ND (September 1, 2002, updated February 21, 2005)
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Essential Filters: the Basic Three (August 25, 2002, updated June 22, 2003)
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Galen's Light Will Shine On (August 18, 2002)
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Pick up the Phone (August 11, 2002)
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A New Angle on Things (August 4, 2002)
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Experiment (July 28, 2002)
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Nikon's MC-20 versus MC-30 (and MC-36) (July 21, 2002, updated December 4, 2007)
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When is a Tripod Actually a Monopod? (July 14, 2002)
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Flexibility and Perseverance (July 7, 2002)
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Know Your Camera (June 30, 2002)
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That Brown Spot in the Middle is a Bear (June 23, 2002)
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Horizontal or Vertical (June 16, 2002)
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"Back from the Beach" Gitzo Maintenance (June 9, 2002)
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Keeping it Simple (June 2, 2002)
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That Darned IE Image Toolbar (May 26, 2002)
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Making it Rain (May 19, 2002)
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Of Airports and X-rays (May 12, 2002)
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Cold Storage for Film: A New Use for Your Refrigerator's Vegetable Bin (May 5, 2002)
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Depth of Field, Part 3 (April 28, 2002)
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Depth of Field, Part 2 (April 21, 2002)
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Depth of Field, Part 1 (April 14, 2002)
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Spare Parts (April 7, 2002)
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More on Composing With a Tripod (March 31, 2002)
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Those So-called UV "Protective" Filters (March 24, 2002, updated September 25, 2002)
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The 72dpi Myth (March 17, 2002)
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Getting a Good Price on Gitzo (March 10, 2002, updated January 12, 2003)
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Using Lens Hoods to Improve Contrast (March 3, 2002)
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National Park Service Website Back Up (February 24, 2002)
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Shoot Lots of Film (February 17, 2002)
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Photographing the Moon (February 10, 2002)
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Snowshoes For Your Tripod (February 3, 2002)
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Larger Than Life Sunsets (January 27, 2002)
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Exposure for Sunsets (January 20, 2002)
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The Famous Arca-Swiss Lock-up Fix (January 13, 2002, updated April 15, 2006)
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Finding Rainbows (January 6, 2002)
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It's Winter! (December 30, 2001)
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The Most Underutilized Photo Accessory (December 23, 2001, updated July 25, 2005)
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Doing Your Homework (December 16, 2001)
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Keeping Horizons Level (December 9, 2001)
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Compare and Contrast (December 2, 2001)
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Silky Waterfalls (November 25, 2001)
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The Best Lens (November 18, 2001, updated February 26, 2006)
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Shapes and Patterns (November 11, 2001)
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Getting Down, But Not Dirty (November 4, 2001)
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Get Up Early, Stay Up Late (October 28, 2001)
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Use a Tripod to Help With Composition (October 21, 2001)
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