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| 1021 |
Preaching to the Choir: White and Black
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White (lies)
The most insidious of all are the little ones. The ones that deal in the subtlest changes of meaning. The ones that skew a set of circumstances into a certain light. They never leave t ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 30, 2007
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Writer:
Paul Myers, Brooks Institute of Photography
| Issue number:
98 |
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| 1022 |
Boot Camp in Fiji
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I'm sitting in my home office, editing a recent shoot when the phone rings. It's a producer friend of mine.
"I've got a feature - October, five weeks in Fiji ... you interested?"
It took me all ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 30, 2007
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Writer:
Chris Large
| Issue number:
98 |
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| 1023 |
How To: Five Angles of One Play on a Single Set of Strobes
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OBJECTIVE: Fire 2-5 cameras simultaneously AND have each one syncing up with one set of strobes.
RESULT: Each camera records a beautifully lit image at exactly the same instant giving you/your edit ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 30, 2007
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Writer:
Robert Beck, Sports Illustrated
| Issue number:
98 |
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Covering the BCS Championship Game - From the Ohio State Perspective
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It was Friday morning, 9AM. Four hours earlier we were boarding a rickety Southwest Airliner that stunk of whiskey and occasionally echoed the letters spelling out Ohio. Four hours before that we we ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 30, 2007
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Writer:
Matthew Hashiguchi, Ohio State University
| Issue number:
98 |
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| 1025 |
Covering the BCS Championship Game - From the Florida Perspective
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I thought I was the luckiest college shooter ever after the Gators won the NCAA basketball championship almost a year ago. I'd been shooting for less than a year, and I'd covered a national championsh ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 30, 2007
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Writer:
Kristin Nichols, University of Florida
| Issue number:
98 |
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| 1026 |
Leading Off: Scrum Lords
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
I doubt Charles Dickens was a football fan. But that oft-quoted passage from "A Tale of Two Cities" comes to mind this time of year --- the fo ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 29, 2007
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Writer:
Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter
| Issue number:
98 |
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| 1027 |
Trade Secrets: 'It was a wet and stormy day...'
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I have always enjoyed macro, or in Nikon speak, micro photography. For years I have used an ancient manual focus 55mm micro-nikkor. In fact, I have had two ancient manual focus 55mm micro-nikkors. The ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 25, 2007
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Writer:
Robin Loznak, The Great Falls Tribune
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n/a |
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| 1028 |
Trade Secrets: Football players 'On the Job'
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I had the opportunity of illustrating this year's Palm Beach Post football preview section that highlighted professional and college athletes from around the state of Florida.
For over a month, I ... |
| Posted Date: Jan 8, 2007
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Writer:
Erik Lunsford, The Palm Beach Post
| Issue number:
n/a |
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| 1030 |
Ho, Ho Ho! Holiday Greetings from Samy's Camera
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It has been a wonderful year for Samy's Camera and our partnership with Sports Shooter. We are proud sponsors of the ss.com web site and both Sport Shooter Academy workshops in 2006 and we look forwar ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Louis Feldman
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1031 |
Holiday Specials from Penn Camera
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Happy Holidays to the entire Sports Shooter community!
Penn Camera has just been named as, "Photo Industry Reporter's 2006 Dealer of the Year".
We're quite proud of this accomplishment. Read the ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Jeff Snyder
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1032 |
Holiday Wishes from Roberts Distributors
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Everyone in the Roberts Family, Christy, Ed, Dawn, Doris, Stacy, Jeff, Bobby, Laura, Bruce and myself would like to extend our sincerest appreciation to the entire gang that makes Sports Shooter possi ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Jody Grober
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1033 |
Batteries Not Included: A computer for your camera bag
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How many times have you found yourself wishing you had brought your computer along on an assignment, but left it back at the office to cut back on gear? There's a new breed of computer in town, and it ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Zach Honig, University of Missouri
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1034 |
The Count: Discoveries of Port; Cigars that are Short
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The view from the balcony of Quinta dos Malvedos, the 116-year-old estate house of Graham's Port, presents one of the most sweeping vistas of any wine country I have visited. Terraced vineyards cascad ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Eric Risberg, Associated Press
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1035 |
Sports Shooter End of the Year Resolutions, Thoughts, Wishes & Ramblings
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(Editor's Note: The Sports Shooter Newsletter asked photographers what their thoughts were of the past year … and give us their predictions for 2007. We asked that these musing could be serious or f ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Various Photographers
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1036 |
Preaching to the Choir: This is not science
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See the seashells by the seashore.
Shhh. Listen.
Pick one up and hold it to your ear: where ever you are in the world, you are no longer there: where ever you are in the world you are instantly ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Paul Myers, Brooks Institute of Photography
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1037 |
A Letter To Santa
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Dear Santa,
I promise I've been a good boy this year. So here's what I want for Christmas:
I want a new button for categorizing SportsShooter.com message board posts. Just to the right of the "I ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Darren Carroll
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1038 |
The Photodude is BACK!!!
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Well, dudes and dudettes, it's been a long time since The Photodude has spoken, and now I'm back after months of partying with my boy K-Fed, helping Isiah Thomas with player personnel decisions, shari ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Writer:
Photodude
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1039 |
Sports Shooter News & Notes: Annual Contest & Academy
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The Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest Deadline Feb. 4, 2007
Do you think you made a great sports photograph this year? There is one way to find out. The Sports Shooter Newsletter is again tr ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 19, 2006
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Writer:
Sports Shooter Staff
| Issue number:
97 |
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| 1040 |
A Dark Room
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Over 5,000 miles divided my grandfather and my home in Chicago when a stroke crippled him to a hospital bed in Vidin, Bulgaria. Uninvited, my imagination flooded the gaps in my grandmother's descripti ... |
| Posted Date: Dec 19, 2006
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Writer:
Yana Paskova
| Issue number:
97 |
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