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c reature in Ihe wild, without losing sight of the big world bayonel. 8y Omar Anum

32 Tip. From ill Pro How to capture an unknown facet of a

very well-known lace. By Laurence Chen

35 traveling Photographer How to bring home all the glories of

Ihe Grand Canyon, whether (I's your first trip or your fifteenth. By Lori Fredrickson

1 0 Editorial How to renew your creativity with a photo project

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camera, slOre all your images, and grab your camera in a hurry.

16 High 5 How to dive in and catch all the fun below tho surface with

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68 DSLR TEST: Olympus E-620 How to obtain full·s~e performance

In a pint-sized DSLR that's light around your neck-and on your wallot. 8y Philip Ryan

76 HANDS ON: Canon EOS Rebel T11 and Nlkon D5000

How to enjoy b ig-league features, and even high-def Video, in a pair of DSLR kits priced below $900 .

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80 LENS TEST: Nlkon AF-S DX 35mm fl1 .BG How to find a fast

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62 My Photos Made a Difference How to turn your

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18 How I Shot this How to make a beautiful scenic picture,

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A visit 10 a private full servicl" horse farm prO\lides an exclusive tour and the occasiof11o photograph the beauty of these gentle animals. Practice your panning as the hoIWs gracefully gilliop across the polo field, or take a slower approach and set up environmental portraits of the equestrians ,md ~Iail shots of the stables

Head on out to Montauk, the eastern tip of Long Island, where the light and the sea are consta ntly changing. Surrounded by water on three sides, Montauk's distinct natural beauty is unmatched. You won't want to miss the historic: Montauk Point Ughthouse, perched on a rocky bluff above the eastern coastline. From this iconic landmark, you can also turn your lens on miles of beautiful unspo,led beaches or take action shots of surfers attempting the wild walers down below.

Experience charming Sag Harbor, a village nestled on the north bay of the South Fork. The historic enchanting town boasts its )\rong maritime fldvor and holds tight to its history. The centuries-old Iree lined streeb complenwnt the 18" and 19"' century architecture that is still intact. The streets slope down to the bay and boats that fill the harbor 1'1'111 fill your lens with colorful oppor1ul"llti!?s to captufC' Ih!? main poft 01 this captivating area.

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Enjoy the best of the North Fork by experiencing the qUiet b@autyof a stunning vll"leyard. Your camera wil l be treatl'd to the maj€slic scenery of the iandsalpe and daS5ic images of the wine making process, ali the way Irom the vine to the bottle. let the Mentors help you capture t~ lush grapes and rolling hills that serve as a backdrop to this amazing unique vineyard. Afterwards, relax with sp~ia! wine tasting and sample a few of the wlnerys award wlnnlllg vintages.

long Island is all about its beautiful beaches and this trek w ill not disappoint. An afternoon of ~acn a<tivities awaits your lens witn the chance to capture recreallOn and lifestyle shots as the light changes. Focus your lens on Ihe pristine dllnes, Ihe ~as t lands<:ape at sul"ldo.......n or learn to light a wrfer as she takes to the open water. Experience an oceanfront cookout and set up a stiO life 01 approach the fest as a full-on ewnt. WhercV('r you pOint your camera, you'll enjoy it from the unspoiled long Island bt>ach while your photography instructors encourage your creati~e approach and provide tethnical advice.

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LETTERS

Oil and water don't mix, but that's a good thing, since it make, photographing bubbles easy to do using only basic gear.

Get a glass cake pan and devate each end about 6 inches above your working surface with books or wooden blocks. uave the center under the pan open. Then fill it about two-thirds of the way with water and add a splash of cooking oil.

[0 the center, under the pan, place a piece of brightly colored paper (I use newspaper ads or candy "'Tappers). The distan~

between the water and paper B b b I or £Ill 1/125 sec An

~~!so~hf:!,;:.kground material U e S ~::to:.S~~~~~:~~~elit For this shot, IlL~d a light Will work.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Now fire away. lOOmm fI2.S Canon EF macro lens- parallel to the water will maximize changing the background often. extension tubes or a dose-up filter focus edge-to-edge. Autofocus may and periodically mixing things up work also, A tripod head that lets not work-use manual. with a fork. Allen Thornton you tilt your camera forward so it's I typicaUy shoot at ISO 200. fiB Ca.!ttJe R.ock. CO

Distorted view 1be scorecard in "'lhe Full-Frame Decision~ (April 2009) goes too much by the numbers and overlooks photographers like me, Most of my photography is of my children and family, and I'm waiting for a full-frame DSLR in my price range,

My Nikon 040 is leagucs ahead of my compact and so much more convenient than my film SLRs that I'd never go back. But every time I take a group shot of my family, its crop factor makes wide-angle lenses not so wide, and fitting eycryone in is harder than it should be, Also, if I forget I'm using a digital-only lens and shoot at its widest setting (18mm), anyone ncar the edge of the frame is distorted in very unflattering ways, Sure, the crop factor is helpful when shooting kids' sports, but I don't do that nearly as often as I shoot people at moderate to dose range, Michael KoJcxJncr

reduction: off, standard, and high, I also have Noise Ninja plugged into my copy of Adobe Photoshop, WillI get better photos using Canon's internal noise reduction, a Noise Ninja-type postproduction alternative (with Canon's internal program turned off to preserve maximwn detail), or a combination of the two-say, standard internal noise reduction combined with Noise Ninja's custom profile for my camera? Ryan Kelly

Washington , DC

While the 50 Mark I!'s In-camera noise reduction works well, we recommend leaving it off and shooting RAW. This way, you can appty whatever level of noise reduction looks best When converting in Canon Digital Photo Professional, and compare it to the results using Noise Ninja in Photoshop, We obtained our noise

E-30 (March 2009) that the camera lets you comhine Multiple Exposure mode and Auto Gain, TIutt sounds like the perfect formula for high­dynamic-range (HDR) images,

I've used HDR software that combines images that are 1 stop underexposed and 1 stop overexposed, but doing it inside the camera would proYide some real advantages, How dose is this to becoming reality? Jim McKeever

Onnond lkach, FL

In-camera HDR is coming, but you may not want it in your DSLA just yet. So far, really good HDR Images still require a lot of manual adjuslmCflts in software_ Most of the defaults in these programs looK okay, but often aren't very true to life, We'd oxpect the same from automated in-camera HDR at this point. Plus, any in-camera HDR adjustments would have 10 be done on a 3-inch LCD screen on

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EDITORIAL

CREATIVE

One man, one year, one helluva project

How do you get to be a better photographer? Shoot. Shoot a lot. But a~ Edward erim will tell you, volume is only half the story.

Having spent decades in photography and the past six years as a full-time pro, Crim has fired the shutter millions of times. ~But any creative person can get stuck in a fut," says the 54-year-old.

So Crim decided to do something about it: He gave himself a 365-day assignment. His subject: St. Louis, MO's Forest Park, the city's 1,293-acre epicenter of nature, culture, and the arts, which isn't far from Crim's home. His project: Shoot in the park every day of the year, starting January 1, 2009.

"I'd taken engagement and wedding photos in the park many times over the years, ~ he says. ~But I'd never really seen the owls , muskrats, and other wildlife, and this project has helped me see the familiar in a new way. ~

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Classical architecture. The building shown in the photo at left is the St. Louis Art Museum. kit was the only pennanent building built for the 1904 World's Fair: 'Meet me in St. louis, Louis, meet me at the fair:~ Crim points out. ~It was designed by New York architect Cass Gilbert, who designed the Minnesota and West Virginia State Capitols, and the U.S. Supreme Court building. ~

Animals. In addition to the 700 species in the St. Louis Zoo, Crim's encountered di.;ng

kingfishers, giant snapping ART FOA turtles, and mating

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ducks. kf have new respect for wildlife photographers," he laughs. "Try getting a small nervous bird

to sit still for you. I'd

give himself creative assignments, ~ says St. louis pro Edward Crim,

Think it's just another whi~ical ~photo-a-day"

project? Hardly. For one

who's deep into a yeartong shoot. rather phot()graph a

bad kid: thing, Crim set up a wehsite to showcase his photos and chronicle his efforts (wwY",forcstpark365,com). For another, Forest Park is huge­dwarfing New York City's Central Park by nearly a square mile.

I talked with Crim 75 days into the shooting, and ~effort" is the operative word. MIt has spun into a whole lot mote time than I thought it would,w he confesses. ~There have been times I've heen out in the park an hour before midnight. ~

Typically, Crim spend.~ two to three hours a day in the park shooting anywhere from 170 to 300 images, pulling from his arsenal of Canon EOS gear (lOs, 10 Mark II. 50. and 30D). Each evening, he devotes another couple hours to editing and po'"'ting about 30 images. ~Dust is the only thing I edit out

of a photo, ~ he says, MI prefer to present things the way I see them. I'm trying to show people what's really there. ~

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And, of course, people. 'Tve been out on a couple o( 10-degn.'e days,~ he says, ~and there arc always people in the park. "

Joggers, anglers, rugby players, a man who's fascinated by great horned owls ... kJ just walk up and .<lay 'Hey, that looks interesting. Can I take your picture?' And nobody has said no."

But still. how can someone who feeds his family working with a camera devote at least five hours every single day to an income-free creative project?

~It is very demanding," admits Crim, who on the evening we spoke had an assignment at a corporate event. ~But I'm one of those guys who works well under a deadline.

"For me, the creation of these images and meeting all of these people is enough."

Is it making you a better ~. photographer? 0

"Definitely. And it has put me in ~ an awfully good mood." 0 '"

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features to get a small size, but that's not so with JVC's Everio X hybrid camera, which shoots HO video and digital stili images at the same time, yet is small enough to squeeze into a shirt pocKet. HOT: Siow-motioo shoo1ing mode, 9MP still image capture at up to 1/4000 sec, 1920,,1080 HD '1ideo. and the body weighs lesS than a pound. NOT: The 9MP stilts go down to 5MP when you're shooting video at the same tiroo.

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THE GOODS HIGH 5 1. Canan PowerShat D10 S3J0, street • www,oowershot,CQID • '2.1MP; 3X optical zoom; waterproof to 33 feet Canon's first fora~ into waterproof digital compacts looks like a cross between a Digital ELPH and a diving bell.

With a waterproof rating down to 33 feel , it's among the deepest divers in this category, but its 2.5-inch LCD and optically stabilized 35-1 05mm (equivalent) 1/2.8-4.9 zoom lens aren't at the lront of this pack. Like the Olher cameras here, the 010 is freeze- and shockproof, in this case surviving temperatures down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit and falls 01 up to 4 feel.

2. Fujifilm Finepix Z33WP $200, street • www·fulifilmusacom • 1 OMP; 3X opl)caJ zoom; waterproof to 10 feet Borrowing design cues from FUJi 's teen-targeted 230, this underwater shooter is one of the tiniest and most stylish. as well as the most affordable. Its 2,7-ioctl LCD IS as large as they come on this type of C<lmpact. But it's waterproof only to 10 feet. and its tOMP and 35-,05mm (equivalent) ffJ. 7-4.2 optical zoom aren't groundb!"eaking.

3. Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 S4OO, street • www.sMystouah.com • 12MP; 3.6X optiCal 200m; waterproof to 33 feef Olympus offers some of the most rugged compact cameras you can get, and its latest fits the mold. You can shoot down to 33 feet underwater, drop the camera from up to 6.6 feel, and use it in temperatures down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit. Plus, its metal construction can withstand up to 220 pounds of pressure. Sensor­shift image stabilization combats hand Shake, and the zoom, while not league-leading, spans an equivalent

28-102mm 113.5-5.1.

4. Panasonic Lumix DMC·TS1 $400, street • www.oaoason~

• 12..1 MP; 4,6X optical zoom; waterproof to 10 feet Panasooic has stepped up to the pool in a stIoog way with its first waterproof digital camera. Its optically stabilized 28-128mm (equivalent) 1/3,3-5.9 zoom offers a nice balance of wide angle for underwater and midrange tele for land-based adventures. AI 12.1 MP, it affords plenty of resolution, and it has an ample 2.7-inch LCD. While we wish it could go deeper thar110 feet , its 720p video recording should make playing in the backyard pool more fun than ev9l'.

5. Pentax Optio W60 $250, street _ www.Deotaximagjog.com _ , OMP; 5X optical zoom; watEK'proof to 13 feet

Peotax was one of lhe first to offer dunkable digilal cameras with its WP series years ago, and now it's a major force. This mode) has plenty of roon'I to the left of the lens

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Daniel Lemin, 33, had a brief stint as a professional photographer, but he went back to a career in marketing when he realized that trying to make money with his pictures was sapping him of the pas~ion to photograph. Check out more of the Los Angeles-based photographer's work at www.danicllemin.com.

Q. What are we looking at here? A. This is a section of the rim of a sulfur pool in a geothermal area in New Zealand's North Island. You're looking at the edge of the pool-fluid bubtKes up from the earth·, core and causes these ~othennal activities, similar to Old Faithful. The different colors arc mineral deposits that have collected over the yea". The section in this photo is probably no more than 2 feet ",,-ide.

Q. Where are you standing? A. I had my camera on a tripod looking straight down, I'm standing about a foot back from the edge of what they Gall a champagne pool. It's very hot. Sulfuric steam rises from it constantly and blows in all directions.

Q. Any problems while shooting? A. The whole series had a lot of challenges, but the biggest one WAS getting over the smell. It was a windy, doudy day, and the light was very inconsistent from frame to frame. The steam ..... as blowing in different directions, and because the steam is yellow it kept m~ing with my white balance settings.

Q. What equipment did you use? A . This was shot with a Hasselblad H3 and an 80mm lens. The H3 is a 39-megapixel beast; the camera itself weighs 8 or 9 pounds. I had to bring a lot of batteries. I like shooting with it because it allows me to capture the finest details. Sometimes I blow these picture~ up to " .. all size. The largest I've made is 5 feet by 7 feet-they just (;ome alive at that scale. I was shooting on manual focus to make sure I could focus not on the water and bubbles but on the mineral deposits that formed the pool. They're fairly deep-you can see it's like a steep cliff down about 5 or 6 feet from the edge. Mostly I shot pretty fast , about 1/350 sec at ISO 200. I normally take long exposures, but in this case I had to shoot fast. If I'd used a slow shutter spet:d, the steam would have blurred and looked like fog.

Q. Did you do much editing afterward? A. I had to. Because the steam was causing so much condensation on my lens, I spent hours retouching out the water spots. If you look closely at the outtakes, }'Ou can see them. The outtakes are straight RAW conversions from the camera-you can see what it would look like without color enhancement. The final actually look.~ like it did in life, though. There reaDy were these fluorescent colors. It doesn't look like it's real, hut it is. And if,!; beautiful. 0

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Make the small loom large It's the smaller species-insects. amphibians, reptiles-that often slip through the conservation cracks, their decline or disappearance unnoticed. These creatures depend on the preservation of their habitats

for survival. That's why [ focus my photography on an animal's connection to the landscapc-I think of it as telling habitat stories.

For photographers, this approach has the added bonus of a dynamic. almost three-dimensional. look to the images. Here are my tips for making them happen.

Use the right tools For this type of photography, camera ~)'stem or sensor size is less important than lens selectKIn. Habitat stories are best told with wide .... ngle lenses, between 16mm and 35mm (full-frame equivalent) that have close-focusing distances of 10 inches or less. My favorites for DSLRs with APS-C-

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sized sensors are Sigma's 10-2Omm fl4.5-5.6 (dose.focusing distance. 9.4 inches) and 17-70mm £/2.8-4.5 (AF to 7.9 inches, manlUl to 6 inches).

Full·field fisheye lenses are also good tools, despite their severe distortion, as they often focus to less than 6 inches. Subjects and straight lines in the center of the frame often

appear nonna1. while outer areas of the frame progressively mor<: distorted­suggesting the roundness of the earth.

To depict the relationship between really small wildlife (such as tiny invertebrates) and their habitabl, 1 prefer compact cameras. Why? Many have optical image stabilization. which allows for sharp handheld photographs

SAYlGHY'S AGAMA (SINAI , EGYPT): This

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Two mooch that I favor; Canon's PowerShot G9 and Panasonic's Lumix OMC-LX3. both of which record images in RAW formal. The LX:) also has the ability to focus off-center suhjects by using a joystick to select

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the focus point anywhere on the screen, so you don't need to prefocus and recompose. It also lets you s, .... itch the image's aspect ratio among 16:9, 3:2, and 4:3, while maintaining the same angle of view. 1 chiefly use 4:3 for verticals (I find 3:2 too narrow), and the wider 16:9 to emphasize the sweep of terrain for horizonta1s.

Get down and dirty Photographs looking down on sma!! ground-dwellingwildlife are usually just plain boring: They lack intimacy and show no connection with the animal. So be prepared to gd your

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Move in close Don't waste your time exploring for rare species-they're precisely the ones you're not likely to find, look instead for common ones, Think local: You can find them in your backyard.

city park, or even a parking lot.

(SINAI, EGYPT): I used a circular-image fiSheye lens,

The best times to shoot are just after sunrise or before sunset. The lighting is wanner, but the air is cool.er. so cold-blooded animals are more sluggish and less alert,

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thing on their mind (breeding) and are less concerned with predators or photographers-in summer. they're more alert to danger. Females often arc hard to approach any time of year,

You can get quite dose to small animals if you approach slo",iy. We are on an entirely different spatial scale than these creatures and don't share a predator/prey evolutionary history. For instance, you may get within a few

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inches of some desert lizards, but if there is a faint black dot in the sky that represents a bird of prey, the li7..ard may well disappear as fast as if the bi,d were within a foot of it.

When I'm walking, the heel of my advancing foot goes no farther than the toes of the other foot. Many small animals will not skitter away if you crawl rather than walk. so I may start crawling from 20 feet away, scooting my tripod (when I rue one) ahead of me on the ground.

This type of photography is not safe with venomous snakes-you will be within striking distance-but most nonvenomoru ones will simply

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COPPERBELLY WATERSNAKE (PIONEER, OK): This is the closest I've ever been able to approach

this very wary species-it may be a once-in-a-IHetime shot.

Handheld Canon EOS 200 with 17-70mm f/2_8-4.5 Sigma DC Macro 1005, 1/100

at f/5, ISO 200.

flee. And keep in mind that when you are very dose to small animals, especially in a desert, they may move toward or even underneath you, viewing thl" large object near them as cover. A scorpion once ran underneath me, and for a few seconds, I had no idea where it was---unnerving, to say the least.

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life, 3D-like perspective at minimum focusing distance, since obje<:t~ in the foreground appear larger than life in relation to the background.

Compose with the animal off­center. ideaJly in a comer, and taking up at least a third of the frame. The background should be the habitat of importance, such as a forested wetland, mountain peak, or stream.

I often set the aperture to ti'S.6, which provides a balancc between a sharply rendered subject and defocused background that doesn't steaJ attention, yet reads as habitat.

I tty tn maintain a shutter speed fast enough to minimize vibration while handholdingj 1/30 sec is about as slow as I go before using a tripod. Considering how little digital noise today's DSLRs produce, I don't hesitate to use ISO BOO or even 1600. If the composition is striking, grain or noise concerns are secondary.

Keep al il Don't get di.~couraged, This type of photography consists mostly of unsuccessful attempts-about 90 percent. Wildlife often flees before you can get dose. And a compact camera may be unable to focus on an insect against a low<ontrast baCkground.

Your success, paradoxically, may depend on how you spend your time Q'Wtl}' from the camera, Learn about wildlife and their habitats, Join a local conservation group or read up on the species struggling to survive in an area near you. rake hikes. Imagine yourself as a child, looking for small creatures hiding in the leaf litter, under rocks, or on a wetland's edge, A whole new .... 'Orld has opened up to me since I started looking for insects and flowers to photograph during neighborhood walks with my child.

I find myself previsualizing compositions that tell a larger story and show the interaction betv.·cen wildlife and their habitats. lhis can help you create images when you chance upon a creature in the field. 0

Omar Allum is a proftsSOr of consm>alio1l biolC>g)' at J1\diana Unil'tnity Southeast, aJ

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Capturing an unknown facet of a well-known face Schwarzenegger and chess? You might not put them together. bot that's just what mak8s this portrait work. Revealing the unexpected is one of the greatest tools In a portrajt shooter's kit

When such an opportooity arises, Los Angeles-based Joe Pugliese I&:HJL ioeova com) pounces. Formerly With the Los Angeles Times, he shot !!"Iis photo of ArnOld Schwarzenegger fO( Time magSZUl9's ~nme 1 OO~ in the California

governor's Santa Monica office. ~ I want something to be revealed,

something true, quiet, and honest-the everyday emotions we all feel," Pugliese says. "Big cameras and light are how I get there, but I'm always paying attenbon to what's in there," His adVice:

18Uild a rapport. It took lime before Pugliese realized that portraits

needed to "!lave something going on· between the people on both sides Of the

camem. -The re8SOI1l'm there Is to have an interaction with the subject, and if t doo't get somethmg reallhat anyone else

can see, '· ... e failed to do my job," he says. Even If he has only 10 minutes to hoot. he'll

spend half the time COOYersing so that the resuQ,ng photo WIll be more natural.

"SchwalZEJIle9ger has a grand persona--Iaughing. smi~ng , shaking hands," the photographer says. To get past that, he asked the actOl"-tumed-politJciaC'l about the posters, art. and other items in his office. MI wanted it to be between me al"ld him. If I talk to him for a couple of minutes withOut the camera in my hands,

he can get to know my personality. The photo reflects our interaction:

2 Light for multiple angles. Pugliese planned fOf three locations: ~nst a white wall, at the desk.

and at the chessboard. In each. he kept the lighting Simple, so he could shoo! from dflarent angles without a big change in his set--up. The mart tights: 8inchrom Midi

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Varying the pace of your shoOting opens up more chance for surpnse.

Since Pugliese uses medium-format film With a Mamiya RZG7 and 110mm f/2.8 lens, the.-e's a nattxaI ebb and flow as he changes rolls. ThIs alloWs him to redirect his subject's anergy, and sWitch between active and contemplative poses. Wrth

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grins lind strong poses. Pugliese shot these, then suggested a quieter moment,

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1 For great skies, visit dunng "monsoon" season. From late July through early September,

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2AVOid crowds by going to the North Am. Open ody In summer, it's harder to reach than the

South Am. More than 1.000 feet higher and covered with ~t$. it'! ~ scenic. too.

3 Stick to classic overlooks 10 shoot panoramas at dawn or dusk. On the North Rim, Point Imperial aM

Gape Royal (better at sunset) revlNll rock

formations ail ihe way down. On lhe South Aim, busy Hopi POint Juts from a cliff into the heart of the canyon lor views in ~ direction. Desert VIew and Navaio Point (less crowded and best for sunrise and sunset) look ouI on the winding Colorado River. At Desert View, compose around the

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4consider the foreground. The YtWW of cliffs from Mather Point. South AIITl , is close enough to Ie( you

crop out the sky and focus on detail. Tm::I of tourists? Wander of! the beaten path In se«Ch of interesting details 10 lighl~t

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Tone How to go b&w and split-tone, too Sure, shooting RAW can help you improve a goofed-up image. But it really shines when ),ou get the exposure right. Using the Adobe Camera RAW processor that comes with Photoshop, you can take a good image in aU kinds of new directions. And because of the RAW file's inherent fl exibility when it comes to white balance , YOll c.an get an incredible fange of re!>ults when converting to black-and-white. Then, once you get a monochrome you like, you can even split-tone your photo for e1t."tra depth and beauty, all before you eyen enter Photoshop itself. Here's how to do hath.

Unfortunately for Elements users, its version of ACR doesn't let you do this to go b&w. But since Photoshop's ACR and Lightroom share the same RAW engine, you can try these techniques in Lighrroom instead . The interface just looks slightl}, different.

1 OPEN YOUR FILE IN Photoshop's RAW conycrtcr. Now's the time to crop, if that 's

part of your plan. And if YOll aren't starting with a good exposure, fix it now.

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GO TO THE HSLJGRAYSCALE TAB .. d check the Convert to Grayscale box:. Your nrst result will most likely look flat and boring, but

we'll deal ..... ,th that in a minute. If you like the Auto settings that the program determines, use those as your base. If not, dick on the word Default to set the sliders to zero.

3 START MOVING THE COLOR SLIDERS. Begin with the most predominant color-in this ca!le, green. Move it to the left,

and all the green tones get darker. Move it to the right. and they get brighter. Then move the sliders for the less predominant colors. These leaves have yellow­green highlights, so moving the yellow slider to the right brightens them relative to the greener midtones and adds some depth. The flowers are made up of red. orange, and magenta tones. Move those sliders to brighten them so they contrast ",ith the leaves.

II SINCE THE B&W STILL LOOKS BLAH, ~ go hack to the Basic tab to add definition and

contrast. Start by moving the white balance sliders. You've already set the rdative weight you want to assign to each tone, so moving these sliders produces dramatic shifts in contrast. Then fine-tune the contrast and brightness until your picture looks the way you want it to. Since this image was so monochromatic from the start, take advantage of the Clarity slider to add more contra.s1: in the midtones.

5 NOW ADD THE COLOR. Click on the Split Toning tab, and address the highlights first. To make the highlights. a bit wanner, mo)'e the

hue highlights slider to an orange or red. Then move the saturation slider slightly rightward to see your color. Keep it below 10 to avoid making it garish. Since the highlights are warm, cool down the ~had()w~. Pick. a blue tone and add some saturation to it. The trick is to keep the split­toning subtle enough that your b&w looks especially rich, though a viewer might not quite know why. 0

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How to bring Hollywood home GreeoS(:reen, Of ~chroma-key," is one of the oldest tricks in lV. To fake a background. they just shoot a subject in front of a green backdrop, then digitally swap out the green for anything from a weather map to a city skyline.

The technique is popular in still photography, too, for popping Hawaiian sunsets or football .stadiums hehind portrait subjeCL< •.

And now that more of our camera:;-both DSLRs and compacts-shoot high-quality video, therc's more interest than ever in grccnscrecn. Lighting titan EJ. Westcott has made unlocking your inner Spielberg almost push-burton simple with its Photo Basics utite Video Lighting Kit (S249 , street), de~igned to be used with Adobe Premiere Elements 7 ($89, street).

The process of extracting a subject from one video clip (or still) and .~uperimposing it on another

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_ Shoot your background footage.

While you can use the dozen or so still and video clips thaI Westcott provides. you will ultimately lind them confining and want to make your owo­iI 's actually half the fun. _ Set up your studio. I n a basement or 93fage. hang the kit's elastic greenscreen, getting it pOOectty taut, or elsa shadows cast by any wrinkles or folds will prevent a clean composi te. _ Light the screen. Position

the lights so that your subject casts no shadow on the background. This usually means placing the subject---f10 groon clothing, p lease!-at least 4 feel in front of the background, and cross· lighting from the sides. _ Capture the foreground footage. Place your subject left, fight, or centrally so that he or she will fall correctly into tna background clip.

_ Combine your clips In Elements. Export the greenscreen footage from the camcorder 10 a computer, and open it and Ihe background clip in a new Premier Elements project. Drag the background file 10 Video Track 1. and the fOfegruund (greenscrooned) clip to Track 2. Elements should automatically recognize the greenSCfoon and ask if you want to merge the files. Chck Yes, and that's all lhere is 10 it.

For inspiratiOrt, search YouTube for greenscreeo tutorials, and amaleur featurettes. For more on Ina ulite Video kit, visit W'WW,ohotobaslcs,net.

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THE FIX

I INTO THE WATERI I Sharafulla Shihab Male, Maldives

The problem: There's much to like in this photo-the boy captured midleap, the off-center placement, the action moving into negative space rather than out of the frame , and the dynamic backdrop of the waterfall. The picture. though, is dark, and the boy could use a little more detail. His foot touching the edge of the frame is distracting, as is the shadov.' at the left.

What now: We opened the original RA.W file in Adobe Camera RAW and dialed up the highlight and midtonc brightness, which was sufficient to bring up some detail in the boy. We also boosted the contrast so the shadows didn't wash Ollt. We changed the crop to get rid of the shadow on the left and keep

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the boy's leg fully in the frame. Finally, as the original image looked a little too cool, we sd a slightly wanner white balance.

Next time: The major issue was the strong backlight-this is a typical situation in which the meter gets fooled into setting too Iowan exposure. About +0.7 to +1.0 EV

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exposure compensation would have hclpl:d. But there was plenty of room to correct it in the RAW file. Moral: Shoot RAW:

Tech info: Nikon 0700 with 24--85mm fI2.B-4D AF Nikkor lens. 112500 sec at fl3.8, ISO 400. Contrast adjustments, Vibrance added in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

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I INTO THE AIRI I Marv Kaminsky Flanders, NJ

The problem: Again, a dynamic composition, with good use of negative space, and captured at a (hoo boy!) peak moment. While the photographer made some good adjustments to get detail in the bike and rider, we'd like to see a little more. We also think that the pholographer's crop places the rider just a little too close to the center (and you know how the Fix Team feels about that),

What now: We cropped a little tighter and went with a more traditional 4;3 aspect ratio. We think this makes the rider appear c\'cn higher in the sky and puts him closer to a Rule of Thirds placement. if you worry about things like that. Using Photoshop CS4's Shadows/Highlights tool. we brightened the shadows and brought up the midtone (;00tra5t

for more detail in the subject overalL We found that this left the tires and rider's boots looking a little over-boosted (that is, grayish), so we also made local Curves adjustments for a better black in those spots,

Next time: Crop a little more aggressively, and shoot RAW to maintain more information in both highlights and shadows.

Tech info: Nikon 0200, 18-20Omm £13,5-5.6 VR DX AF-S Nikkor lens, 1/250 sec at f/16, ISO 400. Brightness and contrast adjustments in Photoshop CS3, 0

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• Fundamental.: Contrast of colors and t."tures, vantage point, Rule of Thirds composiUon. • Contrast: The tree roots are essentially monochromatic, hard· edged, and lit by contresty dappled sunlight. The foliage and sky 8re airy and pastel . This creates a

visual tension that keeps your eye moving around the trame. .Vantage point: Choosing a low point of view and shooting vertically with a wide-angle lens, the photographer accentuated the foreground roota so that they look nearly sculptural. This also leads

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the eye up into the 'rame. The use of hyperfc:K:ol depth of field helps her., too. .Rule of Thirds: The horizon line is off-center, ilnd the focal point of the composition-the tree trunk- lands al just about the one­third verticall.ve!. 0

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2 Work the scene. When you've found a suitable subject, use an unusual vantage point

to showca~ it. The super-low camera angle I used for the shot on the previous spread makes the church loom large in a way that suits the painterly aspects of HDR.

3 Gather your gear. Start with a tripod to keep your composite images aligned and

sharp. Also, g~t a cable or electronic remote relea~ for your DSLR, so that you don't touch it (and nudge it out of place) between or during exposures.

4 Set the camera. Shoot in aperture-priority mode at the same f-slop so that each

image has the same depth of field, and autooradr:et to produce various exposures with a minimum of fuss.

5 Record it all. Shoot RAW and check histograms to help capture a full dynamic range.

Make ~ure your histogram's under-, nonnal·, and overexposed curves are to the left, center, and right of the exposure axis, respectively. Strh·-c for some o\'cnap of the cUJ"\'es, and if you're not getting it, add exposures to the autohracketing sequence at appropriate intervals. .. WWW.POPPHOTO.COM

6 Move on to postprocessing. Cot your shots? ~ most poputar

tone-mapping software packages are Adobe Photoshop CS4 ($640, street) and HDRsoft's Pholomatix (599. dired: www.bd(soft.MUn). I prefer Photomatix, and use Photoshop only for final touchups.

7 Fine·tune the software. In Photomatix. I avoid the default settings because, for

me, each image requires its own look. In general, I dial in relatively high values for Strength. Color Saturation, Luminosity. and Light Smoothing. This u:mally results in an image that's too light, which 1 correct by cranking up the Gamma setting.

S Finish in Photoshop. My last move in Photomatix is to fine-tune the overaU

color temperature. Then I open the file in Photoshop, where I tweak contrast in Levels and CUnlCS,

before a final sharpening.

Besides the surprises, there's something else T like about HDR: The look on people's faces when they first see the imagesl 0

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-HOWTO ... Show motion with flash Jfyou take a flash photo with a slow shutter speed, a moving subject will appear as a sharp image amid a blur, an effect called ghosting. It can be used to depict motion

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dynamically within the frame. But there's one problem: Because flash syochroniution usually occurs at the beginning of an exposure. forward motion will look like it's going backwards as the ghostly blur extends in front of the subject.

To remedy this so the blur trails be hind, set the flash to trailing

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sync. Also known as second-curtain ~ync. thi:. mode fires the fllUih ncaf the end of the exposure. On your camera, the control can be found anywhere from an enerna1 switch to a menu selection. so check your instruction manual.

Try shutter speeds in the 118-1/30· sec range for walkers, runncr..,

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cyclists, or skateboarders, "The faster the motion, the longer the blur trail will be, Slower shutter speeds also elongate the ghost, If you want the effect of frantic motion, pan with your subject at a slightly slower rate than its speed-this will add a streaky, smeared background. As with many special effecu in photography, practice is key.

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- HOWTO ... Get the most from your polarizer Most people use a polarizing filter to enhance blue skies, but you shouldn't overlook the purpose for whkh it was invented: controlling reflections. When you photograph a window, it'll renal

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objects behind the glass. Shooting architecture? Cutting reflectivity can enhance a building's appearance,

You can also reduce or eliminate reflections and glare on water­deepening the blue in sunlight and allowing you to capture what's under the surface, With a h\i.st of the polarizer. enhance the greens or yellows or reds of foliage and flowers . [t can even cut atmospheric haze in broad mountaintop scenics.

With any SLR, or any digital camera that ~ live view, adjusting the polarizer is simple: Just roUte the filter until you get the look you like in the prism finder or LCD, Keep in mind that a polarizer can't completely eliminate lopcctral reflections-highlights with no tone at at1~special1y those coming off metal,

- HOWTO ... Separate autofocus and meterina By default, DSLRs IIU~OCUS and meter the exposure ~imull.aneously when you press the shutter button halfv.'ay (or all the way) down, But sometimes you don't want to meter and focus on the same thing. And sometimes you want the button to activate only the shutter.

Say you're shooting tenni.!> on a variably cloudy day. Since most players dress almost entirely in white, metering off them ..... ould result in serious underexposure, and the moving clouds wou1d likely require frequent rcmetering. You'd also want to pick a pointoffocus that doesn't change when you press the shutter button,

In a situation like this, first set your exposure manually: Press the shutter button halfway to meter, then dial in the aperture and a shutter speed fast enough to captUre the action, Pressing the shutter button now will not change your exposure, so you mu.tt meter and adjust again when the lighting chang\!~,

Next, hunt for a button mo.~t DSLRs b.n·c on the back-u.!>ually within easy reach of your right thumb----that can be customized to activate AF. On Canon DSLRs, it's marked with an asterisk; Olympus models label it Fn. Using the custom function menu, assign AF to it (Nikons have a dedicated AF-on button already), and you can u.~e this to set your point of focus independent of metering. auto or manual.

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-HOWTO .. . Straighten out a skyscraper Sand at the base of a tAli building and look up. You see the building narrowing as it gets higher. hut your

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eyeJbrain computer aUov.'S you to perceive it as pcn«:tJy rec.tangular. But take a picture of it. especially with a wide-angle lens, and it will look too wide at the bottom and too narrow at the top. This perspective distortion is called keystoning, after

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the trapezoidal building block. Serious architectural photographcn

use tilt-shift lenses or view cameras to deal with k.eynoning, but you can often fix the picture without pricey gear.

The trick is going to an even wider focililength. \1ove back as far as you

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can while .~t ill keeping an unobstructed view of the entire building, and shoot with the camera perfecdy level. (A hot-shoe­mounted bubble level helps with this.) Sure, you'll have a whole expanse of unwanted foreground at the bottom of the frame, but that's what cropping is for.

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- HOWTO ... Set the riqht white balance Think of your canlera's whi~­balance (\VB) seUings as a ~et of electronic color filters. 1bey counteract color caltts in the existing light to render iI neutral or ncar­neutral color balance in your photo.

Automatic WB usually works weU, but there are times when it pays to set it manually: In a scenc with a single predominant color, automatic WB can be fooled into overcompensating-throwing an

..... HOWTO ... Dive in using a compact One of the hotlest current trends is also wet: Compact waterproof cameras that can capture photos and video while submerged . (See High 5, page 16, for some of the top new models.) But shooting underwater requires some special tccl1niques to get the best pictures! _MOVE IN, Light falls off much more quickly underwater than in air. so get cloSe!' to your subJec~ than you normally would. Having a wide-angle lens with good close­focU$lng capablli!le$ Is a particular boon below the surface. _FORGET THE FLASH. Don't count on your buill -in fiash to add light. Since it's so cIo!l& to the lens, it will illuminate any small particles between you and your subject (an effect called backscatter). _CHECK YOUR WHITE BALANCE. Some waterproof

amber filter over a field of dense blue flowers, for example. And in some scenes rou may "''ant a wanner or cooler, rather than neutral, tone.

The simplest manual WB setting is a preset. Cloudy WB acts as an amber warming filter to counteract chilly blue light. The Tungsten preset acts as a strong blue filter to compensate for the yellow of household incandescent bulbs. The Fluorescent preset uses a magenta tone to cut down the green color c.ast. of standard fluorescent lights.

Most DSLRs also let you set WB in Kelvin color temper.ature. The

camel'as haVil more than one underwater we setting because what's appropriate for a swimming pool drffers from What you'd want while snorkeling in the CaribbeM. _ GET CREATIVE. When composlllQ underwater. make the most of what you've got. In a pool? Try capturing the bubbles that form when someone dives in. Also try shootll19 up lrom just below the surface, as partially submerged subjects provide a perspectiVil you'd never get on dry land. _USE THE STRAP. Most waterproof compacts can be submerged only to 10-33 feet while malllt81nlng their watertight seals. II you drop the camera. It might Sink down too far. so attach 8 strap or flotatIOn device. Want both? Olympo$ makes a floating wrist strap for its underWater compact models. _KEEP IT CLEAN. Always rinse your waterproof camera in plain waler when you're done, to clear out any chlorine or salt water.

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~HOWTO ... Take high-key portraits High-key portraits pose Iight­hued subjects against white backgrounds, with important subject contours defined by shadows---exactly the opposite of low-key, in which a dark subject is defined by highlights. The high­key effect is one of vi~ual and emotional lightness and simplicity.

This technique suits young children, romantic rendering.~, and anyone with problem skin, Your subject's expression should be happy or at least neutraL It's

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countcrproour.:tivc to use high­key to convey depression, anger, or uncertainty, and inherently dark suhjects (your Goth cousin, say) re .. ist the treatment.

Because you will be reproducing the facc as light as po~sible, it often makes sense, especially for women, to use a light application of eyeliner andlor eye shadow so the eyes don't wash out. (This works for children, too.) And use a light red lipstick, even for men and children,

Err on the side of overexposure, Push the histogram to the right, and if it falls off the chart, no worries­with high-key, losing a little highlight detail is often a good thing.

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higher the number, t he warmer (yellower) the filter: the lower the number, the cooler (bluer) the filter. Many cameras let you usc a Kelvin l>ctting to fine-tune the \VB presets.

Finally, you can create a cu~tom WE. Place a photo gray card (not a white card) in the light fall i ng on the scene, and make a WB reading with your camera. (The procedure differs from c.unera to camera, so you'll have to consult t he manual.) You usually can nne-tune this setting with the Kelvin controls.

Of coune, if you shoot in RAW fonnat, you can fiddle Yo,th WB when you convert your files.

-HOWTO ... Shoot. flattering portraits Save hours of image editing by setting up portrait shoots to minimi7.e your suhjects' flaws. Here are common issue~ and their fixes. _ PROBLEM SKIN; Zap wrinkles Of

blemiShes by positioning your main and fill lights just above the camera position (one ri9ht. the other left), overexpose, and reproduce the image as high-key as possible. Avoid side liU and keep your SUbject from smiling. Try a subtle­but-effactive soft-focus fi lter, such as Tiffen's Soft FX 3 (from $40. street). _ BAGS UNOER THE EYES; Use front light only, with lights at eye level. Lift the camera slightly. and have your subject look up Into the lens while keeping thE! chin down. Apply a little foundation makeup under the eyes, even on men. _ OOUBL.E CHIN: Shoot clown onto your subject from slightly above. Ask your subject 10 lift the chin whHe looking up toward the lens, and position your lights as high as possible to throw the chin into shadow. _ WEIGHT ISSUES: Gil the camera to eye level. and try to light the face exclusively. lelling the body go into shadow. Crop out as much of the body as possible, and dress the subject in clolhes that blend with the background. For tight head·and-shoulder portraits, have the subject turn slightly away from the leos, and ligt1t the far side of Ihe face, so that the broader, near side of the face is in shadow. _ LARGE NOSE: Shoot straight 011 as your subject looks directly Into the lens. Light so the nose casts no shadow.

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_HOWTO ... Feel the noise Somdimes there ju~t isn't enough light. Maybe you're shooting in a dim place: where you can't use a £lash, or maybe your camera's weak pop-up will make things worse rather than better. So you crank up your ISO and get what)'<lll can. The result? Lots of noise, and an image almost too dark to print. ""'hen you brighten it, the noise only lx.'ComCl> more apparent.

Instead of trying to ignore the noise or clumsily reducing it, work with it. Convert the image to black­and-white and disgui~ the noise as grain-think old.,chool. push­processed, fast b&w ftlm.

If you're using Adobe Phol.Oshcp Elements 7, surt by going grayscale using the black-and-white converter uncler the Enhance menu. Usc Levels to simultaneously adjust hrightness and contrast. Bring the black and white point sliders (the ones directly uncler the histogram) closer to the center to add contrast. Then move the gr.ay, middle slider to the left to brighten the image. You'll get a gritty black-and-white, and no one ""iU guess you didn't plan it all along.

-HOWTO ... Make crowds disappear Yes, you really ca.n make people disappear from a crowded landmark or cars vanish from a highway. Just buy an overall neutral-density (ND) fiJter, whose gray tone cuts light without affecting color in the scene. (Street prices stan at around 520.)

The trick is to usc an exposure time so long that anyone walking, running, or even dawdling in the frame blurs out completely. If they're moving relatively quickly. a 10-second exposure might .... ,orl.:. but you'lI usually need anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes.

For instance, an overcast outdoor scene typically needs an exposure of about 1/8 sec at ff.22 and ISO 100, too short to rid it of people. To get the exposure to 30 sec, you'd need to cut light intake by 8 stops or so.

If you're shooting in a truly dim environment, you may not m.'Cd an ND filter at all. So indoor

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.HOWTO ... Lose your focus For a picture that feels more like a tone poem than it does a news report. try throwing your entire image out of focus.

That's the starting point for fine-art photographer Marc Yankus (www.marcyankus,cQm) in creating such images as ""lower" (above). Although his artwork involves a lot of work with imaging software.

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he captures a beautifully blurry shot entirely in h.is camera using a lens that focuses m.mually. Usually sh.ooting at twilight or in very low light, he hand holds for expo:>ures that can run a'l long as 5 seconds.

How does Yanlrus know when he's reached the right level of defocus? Instinct. "'When I'm taking it out of focus . at a certain point the image starts to hm'e a poetic feel to it, ~ he says. "It starn; to be in focus in my ..... ,orld ...

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~paccs lend thcm~lves more to this technique. You need a tripod, of course, and you should set the smallest aperture (largest (-number) you can.

How much ND to use? Each 0.3 of density will eat up 1 stop of exposure, and each stop doubles your exposure time. So, if the right exposure without a filter is 1 sec, a 3-stop reduction in

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light will let you shoot at 8 sec. Filt~r makers produce NO filters

up to a humongous 3.0 density, or 10 stops--that will take your 1 sec exposure to 1,024 .sec. or 17 minutes and small change. Singh-Ray makes a Vari-NO filter that can be dialed anywhere from 2 to 8 stops of light loss. (It's pricey though: $340 and up.

direct; ~nghray-,-o;Qffi.) With too much ND, you may not be

able to see through the viewfinder, and it may be too dim for your camera's meter and AF. So compose and focus with the filter off the lens, take a meter reading. and double the exposure time for every stop of light your ND filter will eat up after you've put it on.

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-HOWTO ... Take great portraits on the beach A sun-filled day at the beach can be heavenly, but it can also be exposure hell, especially for portraits. The light is glaringly bright and the shadows dismally dark. A common .!>cenario has the subject turned away from the sun to prevent squinting, throwing his or her face into deep $hadow. With so much dynamic range to cover, if you meter for the shadowed face, much of the sunlit background will be overexposed by several stops.

Remedy this by posing yQur subject seated on the sand, using it as a giant reflector. Or use fIll flash. either from a built-in or shoe­mounted unit. Start in your favorite

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autoexposure mode, then dial down the background using exposure compensation, Start at -0.5 EV, and keep going until background colors are rich but not murky.

\\'hen you've found an c}l.posurc for the overall scene. add flash for your subject. If you uwn a LurniQuest. Ken Kobre, Gary Fang, or similar diffu.'OCr, pop it into place. Start with flash exposure camp at O. then try +0.5 or + 1 EV of additional flash fin to brighten your subject. (When the flash calls attention to itself, you've gone 100 far.)

Want to mimic the effect of backlighting but still have detail in your subject's face? Reverse the compensation: Dial up the background by 0.5 to 1 EV, and dial down the flash by-O.5 to - 1 EV.

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<II1II HOW TO ... Center your subject If you've ever taken an intra photography COUfSe---<)t read The Fix-you've heard this many times: Never put your subject in the center of the frame. Instead, you're told to compose your image according to the Rule of Thirds by placing the most important element one-third of the way from the top or bottom and from either side.

Feeling rehellious? Put,YQUf subject sm.1ck-dah in the middle, then crop to a perfect square. This works perfectly with round subjects such as sunflowcD, dock faces, and domes interiors----particularly if you crop in tight enough for }'OUf

subject to fill the frame. With a portrait, whether of man

or beast, leave a little breathing space around your subject to avoid a feeling of claustrophobia. And, while the subject as whole may be centered, the picture still follows the Rule of Thirds-look at where the eyes and mouth (or. in this case, nose) wind up.

-HOWTO ... Depict architectural detail in seconds Architectural details, such as the bases of columns, moldings around doors, pedestals, and balustrades can payoff

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MY PHOTOS MADE A Three photographers share their inspiring stories

Can a photograph change the world? A single image can touch or amaze us, and sometimes awaken us to something important. Such extraordinary photos may ~ the result

of a lens in the right. place at the right time, or one photographer's passion to open people's eyes. And although pictures alone won't change the world, one thing's certain~just taking up your camera and getting behind a

cause, whether across the globe or dose to home, can have a vital impact. To show you how, we tracked down three exceptional photographers who've made a big difference-and many little ones along the way.

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I "I realize that photographs cannot change the wood in one fell swoop,· says Ed Kast1i. "But they can change people's minds, and isn't that

where change begins?" The 52-year-old photOjournalist has

spent 30 years documenting conflict and civil war. And with his wife, Julie Winokur. Kashi now creates advocacy projects ttJat include books, 9l1hibits, and f~ms.

From 2004-06. National Geographic assignments brought him to the Niger

Delta to photograph the oil industry. The

poverty of villages near the oil wells, toxiCity of the environment, near-anarchy of government corruption--all in the wol1d's Sixth-largest oil-producing nation­

made him wOf'tde( how this was possible. "In Port Harcourt, there's billions of

dollars in oil wealth and no paved roads," Kashi says. "About 90 percent of Nigeria's

wealth is derived from oil, but this is the

poorest part of the country. It's one of the grossest examples of social injustice that I've seen." He adds, on's something that affects evetyone, not just Nigerians."

Kashi documented the villages, oi l wells,

and activities 01 MEND, a local group that

~shuts-in" wells in a campaign for (ocal

resource control. His images are beyond

diSIUfbing: women baking tapioca on oil

flares, vilJagers cleaning up 011 spills from neglected wellheads. their dwellings built

around galed oil-compMY facilities.

Some of these made it into National Geo, but the full impact was published

in Curse of the Black Gold (powOOiouse. 2008; $45), a book he did with the help

of scholar Michael Watts that iocludes

essays and interviews by Nigerian writers. Now, he says, ~unlversities are teaching

the boolI., activists and NGOs are using it, legal teams are

using the images as

evidence against the

oil companies. Olllam has commissioned a

[traveling! panel 9I1hibitiOl'l." And the project has expanded into multimedia and video, (To see more, ViSit

www.curseoftheblackooldbook.com).

Kast1;'s photos dkin't change things

By Lori Fredrickson

ovemight lor Nigeria. but they did lor

14-year-old Paulinous Uko, shown here

wOfklng in a field where animals are

slaughtered, heaped in a pile, then roasted

Ofl toxiC fires fueled by discarded rubber.

After lt1is photo ran In NatiOnal G90 in February 2007, Kastli got an e-mail from a woman in Smithtown, NY, who had been touched by it. So touched that she had ~ church group cootact Nigerian churches to find out who and where the boy was. And she began sanding him money to help him.

With her original donation of $500, the

boy started attending sctlooI, and he and

his benefactor in America have been in

regular corraspondeoce since. ~tt's one 01 the things about

photOQfaphy that rejuvenates me,n!<ashi says . • You can have a SingtJar experience,

but it's also a tni~ language.

ThIs IS <V1 eKafT'4l'la wtlere it's

achieved both."

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Photographer Mona Reeder was finiShing a story for the Dallas Moming News on homelessness when a social worker handed her a set of statistics from the state comptroller's office: state-by­state ranklngs on SLJch social issues as teen pregnancy and high-school dropout

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rates, voter apathy, and medical care. With a career dedicated to socially

concerned photography, she had already covered these topics individually. "But the impact comes when you see all of these

things together, and see how low Texas ranks, · she says. "II's a V9fy wealthy state,

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$0 you wonder. How could this be?" This was the birth of her photo essay,

"The Bottom Line," a Pulitzer Prize finalist )t was a long timl! in the making. Papers rarely take photographers seriously as

Journalists, Reeder says. "They feel that the ideas should only come from the

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get someone 10 ouy Into me concept. -When an editor finally did give her the

go·aIlead. it was to wOr\( on the project on her own time-after her daytime assignments for the news desk. and without the assistance of writers.

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mat list 01 ranl<lngs ana oocument all 01 them. Poverty in South Texas. Children without medical insurance. Teen mothers. Teens in the juvenile justice system. Families suffering the effects of toxic emissions. The wor\(ing pooI'".

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"I spent weeks and weeks doing research and getting access to prisons, lor e:o:ample: she says. "I made countless phone calls. I'd cootact all kinds of advocacy groups, activists, and outreach groups. II took 3 or 4 weeks just to get to ride with Meals on WheeI$,w wh8f8 she eventually found a family wi~ing 10 open up to her as a sub;ect.

The vast scope of her project helped open the dOOf. With such insliMions as tile Te:o:as Youth Commission, MI had to talk about the project in its entirety to make them underntand it was about the state rather than just them, so that they realized that they weren't under the gun and going to be targeted," she recalls.

And to convince her actual subjects-the families she found through various organizations­to take part. she had to convey tt1e importElI1ce of her project.

She worked nearty every waking hour tram January 2007 until right before her photo essay ran in the paper ()fl December 23. She wrote all the captions and even created audio fOf a multimedia project posted on the newspaper's websita (see it at WWW dallasoews coml~ws,l photooraphvaOO7/bonom!ineO.

Although the effects are hard to measure, her photos brought attention to the groups she featured. Says Lynn Sipiora, director of a Collins County homeless shelter Reeder depicted, "Anytime we get press coverage, we're able to raise public awareoess. Which always increases community support"­COf"Ilributions and volunteern.

But Reed&r hopes 10f" greater changes. She sent copies of the story to Te:o:as officials, including the governor, state senators, mayors of every major city-and also to the presidential candidates and the White House.

'lEI Morning News plans to print a Special edition 101" the Texas legis~ture.

Reeder's grueling e:o:perience has only motivated her more. "One thing the project taught me," she says, "was that I could accomplish almost anything if I was honest and sil1Cef& about it."

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"I didn't go into it with a big political idea," says Subhankar Banerjee, 42. "People think of the Arctic as this very cold and lifeless place-I wanted to shOw them differently."

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SliM, the photographer found his wor1< at the cooter of a political storm when, during a 2003 debate in the U.S. Senate on oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, California's Barbara Boxer

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whipped out his wildlife photos to retute Alaska Senator Ted Steveos' claim that Ihe refuge had no Wildlile to protect

This was far more attention than lhe India-born Banerjee had eyer expected

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when he quit his job al Boeing in 2001 10 pursue his pasSion for photography.

Dreaming of creating a major photo project, Banerjee was drawn to Blue Earth twYiw..blu~arth,Qrg), a nonprofit that

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supports and funds socially concemed photography. Undef the guidance of one of its 10und9l's, Natalie Fobes, who had shot In the Arctic, he studied the region's wildlife and immersed himself in what he'd

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planned as a , 4-month project. E~ht years later, he's slill at it

His first night in the Arctic, the \hemlometer dropped to 90 00101'1, and for an instant Baner)ge thought about giving up. But haYing surviyed the night, there was no turning back. He spool more than a year trayeling throughout the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, capturing the colors of the landscape, the migration pallerns of caribou and whales, and the Inuit societies that have subsisted in this ecosyS\e(!'l for hundreds of years.

Upon his return, he published his photos, with the help of Blue Earth, as Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Urn and Land (Mountaineers Books, 2003: $40) and landed an ellhibit at the Smilhsoniar1 Institution's Museum of Natural History. This may be how BOller got wind of his work-which was moved from its designated spot in a main-floor rotunda to a much smaller space in the basement after the infamous Senate dust-up. While partly thrilled by the publicity, Baner}ee says he was ua nervous wreck. I had

depleted all of my sailings on the Arctic trip and, at the time, I was not yet officially a U.S. citizen."

But tlla experience pushed Banerjee into advocacy. "From 2003 to 2006 I was on the road aU the time, giving lectures and exhibiting the wOli<," he says.

Then he went back to his first love: Photographing at 90 below. Now he trayels not just the North American Arctic btlt Siberia, lugging medium-fonnat film cameras that don't have ballenes that might freeze (though the film sometimes does); a Mamiya 6x7, Fujifilm 6119. and two Fuji GSW 690s.

Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge remains a politiCal hOt-potato, bIJt it hasn't happened yet And Banerjee hopes that his wOO;. will help show why this unique and beautiful habitat must remain untouched. ~It's aesthetic as well as journalistic,~ he says. "' don't want to show people in a

strict photojournaiistic way and make it all about informatiOfl. If you giv9 people just infoonation, they 'Ofget it. I want people to imagine the Arctic otherwise.- 0

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TEST OLYMPUS E-820

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More than meets the eye So you want a full-sized DSLA. but something in you-such as your vsrtebra&-is telling you that it's not a good idea.

Olympus fools your pain, as it has lor a couple generations of compact DSLAs_ The latest , the E-620, has a body that's no bigger than a pack of ramen noodles and weighs just 1.04 pounds.

That's several cubic inches smaller and-most important-nearly a quarter­pound lighter than the just-announced Nikon 0500J (see page 76), Doesn't

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sound like much of a difference? Tell yoursetf that after a day of playing "I

want to be Ansel AdamsH at Yosamtte National Park.

And like Its body, the E-620 is fairty light on the wallet. Body only: $700, street. With a 14-42mm t/3.5--S.6 ZuiKo lens, $800. With that lens and a 40-150mm 1/4-5.6 Zuiko, $900. ~pite its compact size, the E-620

is loaded. In fact, it's a bit smalier than jls Olympus predoc9SS0r, the E·520, yet has everything the E-520 did and more: Sensor-shift image stabilization (our tests showed about 2 stops of

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WHAT'S HOT _Small, light body. _2.7·lnch LCD tilts and swivels. _In_body sensor-shift Image stabilization.

WHAT'S NOT _Noisy Imaging lit ISO 1600 and 3200. _ Multiple eAPOsures limited to 2 frames. _Only one command wheel.

WHO'S THIS FOR? _ Four Thirds fans (and confirmed still shootersl who want a small yet powerful D5LR.

handholding leeway). 12.3MP in the Four Thirds format (2X lens factor), live view, 4-lrames-per-second burst, and a 2.7-inch 230.000-dot LCD on a flip­out/swivel-around mechanism, which is clearly a good idea (just ask Nikon).

Fistful of camera What's the downside of the smal' size? Ergonomics, you might say. But 110. With a prominent grip on the right front of the body. and a pad for your thumb on the back, the E-620 gives you comfortable control to create any composition. Even big-

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From whal we can see, Ihe real downside of cramming so much camera into such a small body is noIse. Heal builds up around the sensor, and there isn't much that can be done to draw it off with so lIttle real estate. Let's not overstate the case, since much noise can be removed in postprocessing, but it is an issue. In oor tests in the Pop Photo lab, the E-620 had a noise score of 1.7 at ISO 100 for a rating of Low. stepping up to a rating 01 Moderat&ly Low with a score of 2. I at ISO 400, and reaching Unacceptable levels at ISO 1600 and 3200 with respective scores of 3.2 and 4.8. All of these numbers were d8fived from TIFF files developed from RAW files WIth Olympus' RAW conversk)n software's noise reduction set to Standard.

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TEST OLYMPUS E·620 until ISO 3200 using defauil le ... els of noise reduction. We'll soo how the new Nikon 05000 fares as soon as

we get a production unit. Other image-quality factors are

quite good, though. In color accuracy it scores 7.9. an Excellent on our scale, besting the 8.3 from the Pentax K2000 but not the Canon EOS Aebel XSi's 7.3. Resolution, too. was impressive, with 2120 lines at ISO 100 (the Pentax SCOfed a little better at 2170 and the Canon had 2265 lines).

Ready, set."focus! The autofocus system is new, with 7 points in a horizontal diamond array. In bright light, the Olympus Is fast. At EV 12, the brightest light level in OUT test, it locked focus in 0.34 sec. AF took 0.5 sec at the ne)(t level down (EV 10), and was still under a second by the dim light of EV 2. In this range, the Pentax K2000 Is slightly faster at several points.

But in lower light , the Olympus doesn 't slow as much as the Pentax, keeping a focus time of 1.57 sec down to the cave­like conditions of EV -1. Compared with the canon Rebel XSI and the Nikoo D60, though, both the Olympus and Pentax are M laggardS.

Metering? Certainly a strong suit on the E-620. In our field lests, the 49-point mult i-pattern meterIng did a great job of detennining the proper exposure for most conditions. And if you have an extremely bright or dan.; scene, set It to Highlight Of Shadow mode, and the camera compensates, bringing out details In the shadows and sa ... ing them in the highlights. Impressive.

Like to spotmeter? You'lI love the 2% spot in this vieWfinder. No other low­priced DSlR comes close in this regard.

As for the viewfinder overall, it covers 95% of the frame, which is excellent for the class, and the O.96X magnification keeps you from feel ing like you're looking through a tunnel.

Creative license You'll Imagine you're in a funhouse if you spend any time playing with the camera's ~art filt9fs.~ Lots of DSLRs now have in-camera editing, but Olympus has taken it to a new level, as we first saw wi th the recent Olympus E-30. Simply pressing a button can turn your image into '60s pop art, give you the grainy realism of classic black-and-white film,

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or even m imic a pinhole photograph. There are six effects in all.

Don' t confuse Ihese with the special effects that are built into almost every d igital compact. The Olympus approach is much more sophisticated in technology as well as execution. Best of all , you can preview the effects in live view without any risk of wrecking the original image file.

More fun and creativity can be unleashed with the double-exposure feature. Whi le Ihe more expensive E-30 ($1.250, street. body only) can combine

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It this is starting to sound like a glorified point-and-shoot, banish that thought. One 100+< at the back Of the E-620 shows a contrDl-freak-calibeT array of buttons, And what you can't press immediately is easy to access on the LCD with Olympus' well -proven five-way control pad.

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There's one control wheel on top of the body, but we wish there were a second tucked in front of Ihe shutter button for control ling aperture and shutter speed independently in manual shooting. As it is, you have to p ress Ihe exposure compensation button to switch between these two.

Serious control also extends to flash. The E~620's built-in pop-up controls up to three groups of Olympus accessory flashes through your choice of four channels, so there's little chance of

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Shrunken treasure In all , this is a very competent

little DSLR. Being little is its slrength~and if you're sensit ive to nOise, its weakness. This might be one of the last DSLRs not to include video capture. After all, both the new Canon EOS Rebel T1 i-which costs within $100 of the E-620--and the similarly priced Nikon D5OO0 pack it. But many dedicated still shooters aren't clamoring for it. For those photographers, there's plenty in this smail package already. 0

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back in low-light AF, where it didn't slow as much as the Penta,.;, and in color accuracy, where it edged into our Excellent rating with an average Dalta E of 7.9, compared with the Penta,.;'s 8.3 (an E,.;tremely High rating). If you've never been in live-view mode with a DSLR that has a swiveling, tilting LCD, you won't know how convenient It can be. For us, it's enough to bring this match-Up to a tie.

_CANON REBEL XSI $690, street, with 18- 5Smm ' /3.5-5.6 IS lens Again, this Canon carries a more appealing price tag than the E-620. And in our lab tests, It bests the Olympus in most ways. Color accuracy? Both achieved Excellent ratings, but the Canon did so with a score 01 7.3, compared to the E-620's 7.9. In rosolution, the Canon scored almost 150 more lines than the Olympus. It also proved less noisy than the Olympus across all Its ISOs, though the Canon tops out at ISO 1600, which is starting to feel outdated even for entry-level DSLAs. Autofocus? The Rebel XSi was faster at all light levels in our test, though the difference was more pronounced in low light. At EV -1, the Canon focused more than a half second faster than the Olympus. And the Cenon focused at EV -2, while the Olympus failed in that super-dimness. Though tho E-620's articulated LCD redeems it against the Pentax, in this case, the Rebel XSi has the edge.

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DIFFERENCES ARE BEHIND ~EM: One of the most obvious points of divergence between the Canon EOS Rebel T1i and Nikon D5000 is the LCD. The Canon's Is bigger and sharper, while the Nikon's nips down and swivels.

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Now the two biggest guns-Canon and Nikon-have these buyers in their sights, with DSLRs that bring high-definrtion video capture and other major-league features to kits costing $900 Of less.

Canon's eotry, the 15.1MP EOS Rebel Tl i, inheri ts capabili ties from the EOS SOD and 50 Mark II. Similarlv, the 12.3MP Nikon D5000 is packed with much of the tech coolness of Nikoo's upmarket 090. But these contenders

Canon EOS Rebel T1 i IMAGING: 15.1MP APS-C~size CMOS sensor (AID, 14-bit). LCD: Fixed 3-inch, 920,OOO-dot. ISO RANGE: ISO 1~12,800 {extended). VlDEO: 192Ox1080-pixel HD, 2Ofps, 12 min/clip; 1280x720-pixel HD. 30 fps, 18 min/clip; 640x480-pix~, 30 fps, 24 min/clip. Mono sound via built-in mic. BURST RATE: 170 (Large Fine) JPEGs or 9 RAW at 3.4 tps. AF: 9--polnt diamond pattern with high-pr&eision center cross­type sensor, 8 linear sensors. METERING: 35-zono evaluative, centerweighted, limited-area, and spot. BATTERY: LP-E5, 400 shots per charge (50% with flash). FLASH: GN 43(150 100, feet); coverage angle, 17mm lens. No wireless TTl. contTOl from pop-up. LENS COMPAT1BILITY: All Canon EF and EF-S lenses. 1.6X lens f&ctor. SlUJ WEIGKT (BODY ONLY): 5.1x3.8x2.4 in.; 1.06 lb. liST. STREIiT PRICI!: $800, body only; $900 with 18-5Smm fl3.5-5.6 EF-S IS lens.

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also demOnstrate some divergence in ttunking by their respectt\le makers.

Let's Ioott at them side by side in several key areas.

Imaging Both camet'as use sensors and procesSOfs from e)(lsting models of what might be

called the high-mldlevel class. The Canon gets Its 15.1 MP CMOS

sensor from the 500, plus 14-bit AID conversIon, and like the SOD, tSOs can be pushed into an extended range to 12,800. Naturally, we expect that Image quality from the Rebel 11; will closely match that of the SO~.

The Nlkon 05000 plays it a little more conservatively, using the 12.3MP CMOS setlsor of the 090, with its 12-bit NO converter, and 150s e:JCpandlng up to 6400. This hardly makes it a slouch. As the Nikon D90 ran practically neck and neck with the canon SOD In our lab tests-and bested the SOD In noise performance at

Nikon 05000 IMAGING: 12.3MP APS-c-stze CMOS sensor (AID, 12-bit). LCD: Articulating 2.7-lnctI, 230,ODO-dot. ISO AANGIi: ISO 100-6400 lenended'!. VlOIO; 1280lt720-pixal HO, 24 fps, 5 min/clip; 640lt480-phlel, 30 fps, 20 min/clip. Mono sound vta built-in mic. BURST RAU: 100 {Large Norma~ JPEGs or 9 RAW at4 fps. Alii: 11 -poInt box pattern with center cross-type sensor, 10 linear sensors, MEnRlNG: 420-plxel 30 Color Mabix evaluative, cente,... weighted, and spol &ATT.FIY! EN­ELSa, 510 shota per charge (50% with flash), PI.A8H: GN .56; coverage angle not yet available. No wirel .. TTL control from pop-up. LaMS COMN.TlBIL~ N-S Nikkor len ... with autofocus; all other Nikkors with manual focus.. t .5X lens factor. SlzaJ nIGHT IBODY OHLy): Slt4.1x3.1 in.j 1.25lb, nT. ~ PlUC&: $730, body ooJy; $850 with 18-65mm fl3.5-5,6 AF NikkorYFIlens; $1 ,100 in two­lens kit with added 55-2OOmm fl4-6.6 AF NIkkOI' VA lens.

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HANDS ON hlgh8l" ISOs-we expect a comparison of the two new cameras to be quite competitive. Keep in mind, 100, that camera makers often twsak the processing finnware for newer modelS

with the same sensor, so we might even see some improvement.

Viewing and focusing The D5000 shows some new thinking from the Nikon engineers--il's the first Nlkoo DSLR to have an articulated LCD scraen. A great idea in any event, the OSOOO's does something different and, in our view, better. The 2.7-indl. 230,000-<101 display flips down-not out to the sJd~nd then rotates.

Since the display remains centered laterally, you don't flOOd to movalt1e camera to the right to keep the screen in front of your face while you frame yOU( shots. This also keeps the screen centered on the optical axis and makes panning 1001 more naturnl than with a flip-to-the-sJde design. This setup will also come in handy when capturing video.

Canon took the more traditional path, with a fixed 3-inch, 920,ooo-dot lCD borTowed from the EOS 500 and EOS 50 Marti: II. If flfle-grained screen viewing is more important to you than an articulating LCD, too Canon may tug harder on your heartstrings---it's a gorgeous display.

Autofocuslng systems on both cameras are also off-too-shelf items. The Canon uses 9SSef1tially Itle same 9-point, diamond-pattern AF array as the EOS Rebel XSi (wnlch will remain in the liooup, as well as the EOS Rebej XS). The center cross-sensor is SUlTOunded by linear sensors.

The Nikoo, as you might expect, employs the AF system of the 090, With to lineat SEII'lSOfS arrayed in a '00 .... pattern around a central cross-type sensor. Both systems lested out fast and sensitive in the respective older models, and we'll see how they fare in these new cameras.

Video The Nikon D5000 has the same video capability as the 090: 1280x72O-pixel HD video al 24 frames per second in clips up to 5 minutes long. with mono sound and manual focus.

Canon seams to have a clear advantage with its full 1920xl OSO-pilcel

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CANON EOS REBEL T1 i and NIKON 05000 HD recording, up to 12 minutes a clip, but there are a few asterisks. Because the Tl i has just two outlet channels from the sensor, as opposed to four on the 50 Mark II, the camera can manage only 20 fps at 1920xl080, making for choppy motion.

And since it has a smaller sensor (and smaller pixels) than the full-frame 5D Mark II, there may be greater noise issues in videos taken at higher ISOs. Unlike the stereo-capable 50 Mark II, sound recording is limited to the built~ in mono microphone.

The Rebel Tl j does take lower-­resolution 1280x720 video at 30 fps, though, and at this price, it may prove a boon for film students.

Handling and add-ons We shot with the two cameras in brief field tests alld were impressed with both. In terms of the body, the Canon Rebel T11 is a near-clone of the Rebel X5i, differing only in the video setting 00 the mode dial on lop. and a thumb button on the back, for liye view and yideo recording. (Note to

Canon: That button needs to be raised a little more-it:'s almost impossible to find by leel alone.)

The fit of bOdy panels was trim and tight on tile beta version we handled. As with other Rebels, if you have big hands, yoor pinky could slip off the bottom 01 this petite camera. so you may want to add the battery grip for extra finger room. (The Tl i uses the same battery grip, Li-ion battery, and remote switches as the XSi.)

The 05000 Is similar to Nikon's 090 in body design. There's a dedicated live view button 10 make it easy to switch to framing images on the LCD or to capture video. Also, the grip is longer than the one on the Rebel. so yoor pinky won't feellelt out . And a bevy of buttons gives yoo access to all the most important controls.

Nikon's display lets you change other important settings and see all your main settings quickly. The build quality felt solid on the preprodUction sample we used. The 05000 isn't compatible with any Of Nikon's existing battery grips, and unfortunately there won't be a new grip for this model. But it is compatible with current Nikon Speedlights, ML-L3 wireless remote, and GP-I geotagger.

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The bottom line Both DSlRs stack up fairly e ... enly in terms of in-camera effects like dynamic range adjustments, fiher effects, JPEG profiles, and so on. (The Nikoo 05000 doesn't offer wireless flash control lrom the pop-up flash, unlike higher-end Nikons. But since Canon dOesn't offer this feature on any EOS model, mark them even here, too.)

Another Issue: The Nikon 05000 does not ha ... e the AF-coupling pin

found Of! more expensive Nikons, which means that you need AF-S lenses (which ha ... e internal focusing motors) to autofocus. The Canon. on the other hand, can take any lens from the EF arsenal, digital-ooly or full frame.

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Hght and compact, casting no shadow when used with the Nikon D90's built-in flash.

There's no distance scale, and its manuaJ­focus r'ng tums with a slightly scrntchy feel. IN THE LAB: Our SQF teslS found

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LENS TEST

GO-TO CANON EF 16-35MM F/2.8L 1/ USM AF Replacing Canon's original 16-35mm 112.8L 01 2001, this full-frame

u~rawlde for pros ($1,450, street) has two UD glass elements to suppress chromatic aberrations, and throe aspIlenc elemerrts to minimize linear distortion. A 26-56mm equi'lalent on APS-C sensors, it delivers fast and

quiet autofocus, smooth bokeh. intemal focusing and zooming, and solid, dust-and moisture--sealed construction. HANDS ON: Slightly bulkier and . . , heavier than its predecessor, this tank ~

of a !ens balances nicely on metal- 1 bodied EOS models, but IS nose-heavy on Rebels The nbbed and rubber-clad zoom and manual-focus nngs turn with smooth, well-damped actioos The greefl distance scale In feet IS a bit hard to read, especially in low light; the metric

scale, in while, is easily legible. The new flush-mount AF/MF switch keeps you from aCCidentally changing modes. IN THE LAB: SOF tests found stlarpness and contrast in the Excellent range. similar 10 ttle original and to Nikon's 17-35mm tl2.BO. DxO Analyzer Version 3.0.1 tests found Visible barrel diStortion (0.59%) at 16mm-a vast improvement over the Very Visible 2.9% of the earlier

mtJCti bene!" than the other lenses. both of wh ich showed vignetting from f/4 to f/5.6 across the focal-length range. Mcu<.imum magnification at the uniform close­focusing distance of about 10.6 inches was 1:8.02 at 16mm. 1:5.51 at 24mm. and , :4.06 at 35mm-similarty top-notch. CONCLUSIONS: One of the most distortion-free fast. wide-angle zooms, thiS lens gives you relatively straight sub;ect lines and lets you get close to a subject while including wide swaths of backgrouoo. The price is high. but so are the rewards. 0

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Ways to Use Vibrance Photographers who use Adobe Photoshop's Saturation tool to increase the saturation of their digital images can

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Enrich "enlcs: Saturation, used on the right th~d of Photo A, creates surreal colors and loss of detail in the richest areas--notice the halos of color 1 arovnd the blades of grass. Vibrance, used on the

left third. makes the coors richer and deeper without losing detail in the saturated areas.

2 Improve portraits: Vibrance has built-in protection to avoid oversaturating skin tOIleS. The software detects the tonal range of skin tones, and does not add saturation to these areas. In Photo e,

SaturatiOn was used on the left side, which affected all color values including skin tones, creating unnatural, undesirable tonas. Vibrance, used on the right side, saturated various color.>, including the eye makeup and the coat, without unnaturally altering skin tones.

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effect than you'd get by desatumting. Decreasing Vibrance can be used to make portraits appear almost hand-painted, as in Photo C. And note that you can apply VIbr'ance locally using the Sponge tool. -Lindsay Adler

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-HOWTO,. , Capture the make­a-wish moment Getting the classic hirthday-cakt: shot by available candlelight is no piece of cake. You have to deal with tricky technical issues (uposure, color balance, noise), as well as the human factor (usually a young and probably antsy subject), and then get the shot within just a couple of seconds.

So planning is key. Your best bet is to do a rehearsal shot beforehand with a stand-in and the appropriate number of cancUes on a table, Then .. , * SPEED UP. Bump your ISO to 3200 or beyor»-you want to get th6 shot, noby or not. For a very young child, use thick­wick candles, because three or four skinny birthday candles don't shed much light. . PRESET EXPOSURE, Spotmeter a face near the lit candles, and than set that as a manual exposure. (Auto can be flummo)(ed in scenes like this,) Use a fairly wide aperture (f/3.5 or fi4) but 0f'\EI that gives you soma leeway on depth of field. .. WW'vY.POPPHOTO.COM

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QUESTIONS ANSWERED Night shift I use a Canon EOS Rebel XSi and have found that at night I seem to get more lkpth o f fteld than I do in daylight . Is that possible? This photo was made aL fIJ .5 and 30 sec with a 18-55mm £13.5-5.6 C anon kit lens at 18mm. How do you account for the incredW.c OOF at such a large aperture? TIm Weir

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Ikp th of field im't affected by light 1~3. But it is by foeallength.

Your wick angle of view gives the appear.anc:t: of ckcper ZOne5 of sharpness, which can seem t:vt."n det:~r jf you focus at or nur the lens' h)'pf!lfocaJ distance. (For acMt;e on how to usc: hypcrfoc.u distance to )'OUr a<n7UIt41ge, see page 53.)

Frame up Having read "The Full-Frame Decisionft (April 2009), 1 have one quc:.1ion: What 't\"OuJd be the difference between a 20x30-inch print from a 12.1MP Nikon D300

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(APS-sized sensor) and one from a 12.3MP Nikon 0700 (full-frame­sized sensor~both shot in RAW ilnd

with the same tecnnique? nak Heir CedaT City, UT

If J'UU were shooting "t ISO 800 or below, you'd ~ \'Cl)' little difference. 7bt" two c:.ameras produce uruges with the s.ame pixel dimensions, ~nd in our usts their resolution waS very similar, But you'd need to use difl'eunt lenses (or the same zoom lens lit different focallengtJu) to fra~ the SIS1IC scene in the .JIIme wlily lit the.f.ll~ distance from the subject. So you might see a di~'ergence jt] wrpness, distortion, light fsUoff. or other optield faCEOrs.

Polari-zlng! When I snoot in bright sunlight with a pobrizing filter and Auto ISO, my Nikon D80 sets ISO 800. Shouldn't it be ISO 200 in such bright Light? Is something .... TOng? The pictures Look fine. m"Stn'atula RamaJi:rUbna

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It sounds bke your GlmelJl '""U rIM. PoLuizers clln cut light transmission

by MVCrai stops, which is why your ISO jumped to 800. If you're concerned about image qlJ.lj/ity and e~abjlity, tum off Auto and set II lawer ISO. If that tneMU you hat"e to use a tripod to make up for the longer shutteT speed, so be it.

SQF across the ages I had a Canon 35mm SLR (the EOS Elan) with a Sigma 28-7Omm en.s and 75-3OOmm fl4-5.6 len.~ . both bought in 1993. For each, I have the vintage Pop Photo SQF charts publisned in 1992. I just bought a Canon EOS 40D, and want to see how my older lenses compare with today's optics. So my question is: Can I compare 1992 SQF charts with current ones, or nave your criteria amilor testing methods changed over the years? Cbristian Savoie

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Our optiCAl bench W;iS completely overluukd in 2001, usulting in more ~C1U»r:e test dau and II slight dip (5 to 7 ~rcent) in apparent sharpness for lenses ~5ted since then. So, unfortuaatel,; the oM and new test re~ults are not diredly compal7lbie.

The TWAIN shall meet 1 recently upgraded to Adobe Photoshop CS4 on my Mac, and was surpri5cd that my scanner didn't automatically appear as an option in Photoshop's Import/F.xport menu as it did in previous w .. 'l'sions. The sc.anner is several years old, but I recently updated its driver. Do I have to keep CS2 for scanning? D. T.

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CS4 should wwk. though you lTh1y experience occJukmal clJIshes, The nVAIN, the pipeline Phot06hop uses to communiate with your scanner driver, considered outmoded by Adobe, is 00 longer autom.t~ loaded ioto Photoshop. 'The answer lies in the Goodies folder in your CS4 instaIL:Jtion disk. 10 GotxJjes, open the Plug-ins (older.nd then the Import-Export folder, It should contain the File TlVAIN,plujin, Dr"1 that file into PhOEOShop's Import­Export foldt:1' inside the Plug-ins fo/du. Reboot .,nd sun .,WIIY. 0

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