PC Magazine - USA (2020-01)

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It was a little more challenging to use the wands with such a big piece of glass. I
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for a long exposure shot of a subway train pulling into the station, I used the
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get it covered entirely, as you can see in the uncropped photo above. It was the
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I wanted to try one of the color gels included in the Color Expansion Pack to
give the rather dull water bordering lower Manhattan a more colorful look. I
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plastic causing a vignette at the bottom left of the frame below, and on the right
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you gravitate toward larger lenses.

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