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Photo Nights Boston plans local photography festival

Photos by Time Magazine documentary photographer James Nachtwey were projected on buildings across the world in 2008 Wouldn't it be cool to see photographs projected on the sides of iconic buildings and skyscrapers in downtown Boston? That's the dream of...

An essay about Rebirth Workshops

Now that it's been several months since I returned from a week-long Rebirth Workshop in Mississippi, I'm happy to look back and provide an overview of what we did that made it such an intense experience for me as a photographer.

Contests update - upload fixed ... !

Panopticon Gallery exhibits extended

October upload gallery is live

Camera advice from Consumer Reports

October contest theme: The color green

A change to RAW's front page

'Famous Places' contest Top 10

Featured Photographer: Ben Rifkin
Life and wildlife in Madagascar

A photo guide to Cape Cod -
with GPS coordinates!

August contest theme: Center It

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High-speed
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Learn about using a flash unit, event triggers, sound triggers, and the problems with wireless shutter releases. (Photo by Michael Melgar via Wikipedia)

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Reviews

Samsung NX200

The new compact DSLR and its 20.3 megapixels delivers strong image quality and comes with an 18mm-55mm zoom kit lens and on-camera flash. But some balk at the $900 price tag.

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Gadgets

Manfrotto ML120 Pocket LED Light

This array of LED lights, which attaches to the hot shoe on your camera, will help if you're shooting macro or video, ePHOTOzine says.

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Monthly contest

Spider web photo by Boston Globe staff photographer John Tlumacki

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June contest theme: My backyard

Let's take advantage of the long days this month - the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, is June 20 - and rediscover the beauty that's close to home.