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I'm terribly disorganized, and that's not good for business, or life. I forget to pay bills if I have to do so by mail, and sometimes even misplace a check or two. Direct deposit has saved my behind more times than I'd like to admit.

In this time of high-tech image stabilized and vibration reduction lenses as well as anti-shake capabilities built into cameras from Sony, Olympus, and Pentax, you might wonder if you even need a tripod? I think so. Let me tell you why.

Even back in the old film days, you had two decisions about making prints: You can do it yourself, or have somebody else make them for you.

There are a number of ways to set up a color-managed system in your home, office or studio. But once you calibrate and profile your monitor and printer, how do you really know that your system is producing accurate color?

Metadata is a set of information that is written to the EXIF file header of every digital image.

Some compact digital cameras set a higher ISO automatically as part of their anti-shake program, but many do not.

Black-and-white prints that have been hand-colored have an unmistakable appearance. Because there is a complete grayscale image underneath the pigment, these pictures have a sort of "image infrastructure" that exists nowhere else.

How to emulate a classic shooting technique after the fact.