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In 1952, Lester A. Dine invented the ring light to make dental photos but today people use them for all kinds of other photography too.

One way to add color to a monochrome image is to start with a black and white photograph and paint in the colors on separate layers. Using Photoshop or any image-editing program that lets you work with layers; you can simulate this hand-coloring technique from the 1950s.

A monolight is a self-contained studio flash, that can be powered by AC or DC battery power and like any studio light allows the fitting of light modification devices, such as reflectors, umbrellas or softboxes. Within a single, compact housing, the light contains a power source, modeling light,  flash tube and controls

On Sunday,, September 21. I took a walk with Mary in McCabe Meadows. I had been gradually trying to increase my outdoors walking for  a few weeks now, and on this day I made some major progress.

Vladimir Horowitz was arguably one of the finest classical pianists of all time, yet even he practiced every day. The headline should really be amended to say that glamour, like any type of photography, takes practice. 

There was a time when I was asked to be a judge for photographic completions and I was always struck when listening to other judges when they were talking about a competitor’s images that always started by talking about it’s composition.