Wanna Start a Fight on Vivid Light?That's how an email from Joe Farace started out.Joe shared with me the following email exchange with his friend MP regarding the motorcycle image on the left: “Did you enjoy the motorcycle show?”“Yes,” I say, “here is a photo I made”.Then he says: “Is that ...

by Gary W. Stanley As you might imagine, photo editors sometimes find themselves swamped with invitations to test new products by photographic marketing people. While this may sound like a lot of fun and a way to get free stuff, there comes with it the responsibility to do a thorough job ...

by Chuck McKern In Understanding & Using Black & White Infrared Film I covered the quirks and characteristics of shooting with black & white infrared film. With the basics out of the way lets take a look at what we can do with color infrared film. If you haven't read the article ...

by Jim McGee There was a time when recommending inkjet paper was easy. You simply bought your paper from whoever made your printer. Try something else and you risked weird colorcasts, print fading and color bleeding. Thankfully we have more choices today. There are a wide variety of papers available from an ...

by Gary Stanley If you want to cover your bases with regard to image longevity, consider having your very best digital images made into slides. I've successfully converted digital images to slides using an on-line service, www.slides.com. They do virtually everything we send them overnight, for $2.50 an image, and produce high ...

by Jim McGee Over the past few months we've featured a number of articles on how to improve the quality of your digital prints. That's OK if you're just after a straight print. But what if you want to make your prints really stand out? For years photographers have introduced custom borders ...

by Jim McGee Last week I spent some time cleaning up the paper explosion that is my office. In the process I came across a book on hand painting photographs by James McKinnis that we previously reviewed. Now James does a fine job explaining how to create hand painted photo art ...

by Jim McGee Photoshop is a huge program. For the new user it's daunting and at some point experienced users tend to find the functions they use most often and stop exploring. So in this month's digital darkroom column we're going to show you three little Photoshop functions that can be useful ...

by Gary W. Stanley Years ago when I first got interested in trying to make money with my photography (I'm still interested and still trying!), I thought that having business cards made of one of my images would be a great way to promote my work. I carefully selected a slide ...

by Chuck McKern The best thing about doing your own darkroom printing is you have the ability to make a photograph look the way you want as opposed to the way somebody else thinks it should look. Over the years I have come to appreciate a well-done black and white print, ...