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		<title>Helping Each Other Out: Paying It Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I wish I had a posse &#8212; a group of skilled photo folks to help me with my shoots. All of us who work alone know how difficult it can be to do something complex, particularly on location. Some shoots require an extra set or two of hands, another set of eyes, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2010/03/helping-each-other-out-paying-it-forward/</link>
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		<title>Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part II &#8212; Batch Processing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post, we created a &#8220;brush&#8221; to use when signing or placing a copyright notice on our images. Using the brush, one image at a time, works well. But, when we have a big job, a lot of images we want to protect all at once, it&#8217;s not the way to get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lighting Like MacGyver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many, &#8220;available light&#8221; photography is synonymous with &#8220;natural light&#8221; photography &#8212; the use of the sun as the main light source.
But, for us MacGyvers, the meaning is a bit different. To us,  it means using whatever light is &#8220;available&#8221; &#8212; be it the sun or any other source of illumination we can create or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2010/02/lighting-like-macgyver/</link>
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		<title>Honoring Creative Rights: ASCAP Music Licenses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not it is best to use music during a shoot is open to debate.
Some feel it relaxes the model and helps him or her find a &#8220;rhythm&#8221; that creates a dance like partnership with the photographer. Others think the music is a distraction and prefer to work with words to get the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2010/02/honoring-creative-rights-ascap-music-licenses/</link>
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		<title>onOne Suite 5: Diverse and Powerful Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the release of Plug-In Suite 5, onOne has raised their prices &#8212; including the discount price they have allowed me to offer my students and readers. Graciously, onOne has allowed me to offer my students and readers the Suite at a heavily discounted price &#8212; $379.99.
The latest version of onOne&#8217;s Suite 5 adds some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2010/01/last-chance-onone-suite-5-for-299-99/</link>
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		<title>Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part I.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know. It&#8217;s a crime against art and beauty to put a watermark across model Hai Thi Ngo&#8217;s eyes. I had to. The placement was dictated by my site software.
But, in some ways, the placement is appropriate;  it shows the quandary in which we find ourselves when we take desperate measures to protect our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2010/01/protecting-our-work-watermarking-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Survival Tips From Hanson Fong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowhere is the pressure of competition greater than in the world of wedding photography. So, I turned to one of the world&#8217;s best known and most successful wedding photographers, my friend Hanson Fong, for answers to the question &#8220;How can wedding photographers survive in this economy and in this market?&#8221; Are his answers limited to weddings? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2010/01/survival-tips-from-hanson-fong/</link>
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		<title>Random Thoughts From A Restless Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since starting this site, I&#8217;ve felt a bit trapped. I&#8217;ve been feeling that, to fit the format, I&#8217;ve had to write long, informative, illustrated articles. Even the &#8220;Quick Focus&#8221; pieces can&#8217;t be quickly written.
So, I&#8217;m going to try adding something new &#8212; something that will accommodate my Restless Mind, something that will let me write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2009/12/random-thoughts-from-a-restless-mind/</link>
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		<title>Survival Stories &#8212; Going Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The immediate response was overwhelming.
More than 150 of you sent emails saying &#8220;yes&#8221; to my inquiry as to whether I ought to start &#8220;a survival stories&#8221; section on this web site. My web developer, Nina Sossen, who knows a lot more about web site interaction than I do,  tells me that statistically, the letters represent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prairiefireproductions.com/2009/12/survival-stories-going-live/</link>
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		<title>Self Assignment: No More Pretty Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This shoot came from my &#8220;Dark Side&#8221;.
The basic concept was simple &#8212; to show that contrary to what glossy magazines and movies may tell us, beauty does not necessarily bring happiness. And, that for some, external beauty can be a trap because it blinds many an eye to the internal picture that really defines who [...]]]></description>
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