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Summary: Advanced techniques in an advanced publication
Comment: Photo Techniques Magazine can help serious photgraphers hone their craft, with extensive tutorials on shooting, printing, Photoshop, scanning, and other topics. It's invaluable for both film and digital photographers.
Film photographers will treasure this publication because it's one of the few that still provides tips on traditional film photography and darkroom work, even with medium format and large format cameras. Where else will you find artciles about toning?
This publication deserves your support. Once it's gone, it's unlikely we'll see anything like it again.
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Summary: simply the magazine for photographers
Comment: This is the best photo mag for those of us passionate about photography. It has long in debth articles on technique and equipment. Moreover it features "how to" examples from some of the best fine art photographers of our time. It is thus quite different from other magazines that feature some no name staff writer pretending to be Paul Strand. This does make this magazine perhaps less than ideal for the first time casual shutterbug trying out his/her first pocketcam. But for all of us striving to do good photography this magazine has no peer. It is not a glossy magazine and its print quality is rather low. It is a far cry from Phototechnik International or Spoon, but it is about the creating of rather then the displaying of photographs. Having read every photomagazine in the english and german speaking worlds in the last 15 years this is the best.
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Summary: Great Magazine!
Comment: While this magazine may not posess the high gloss pages, and gorgeous images taht are typical of photgraphy magazines, they are full of good information that rarely, if ever repeats it's self. They cover a broad range of artists so you also get views of photography from many angles. I Highly recomend it!
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Summary: The fift star comes when I get all the back issues!
Comment: This is a Techniques Magazine! They do not repeat themselves, so if you can find older issues around, buy them too. Do not expect lots of inspiring pictures, only writers who know what they are talking about.
The topics are different and well chosen. They are important for the serious amateur, if he is using digital or large format.
"Shoppers' disease" is one of the many topics that other magazines stay away from.
