About the Author

Stan Sholik has spent over three decades as a commercial, advertising, and illustrative photographer in Orange County, CA. During that time he has developed a national reputation in a wide range of technology-oriented specialties for his clients in the computer, electronics, medical device, and food industries.

He has also gained a reputation as a writer on both conventional and digital-imaging topics with articles in View Camera, Shutterbug, Professional Photographer, AfterCapture, Rangefinder, and other magazines. He has written several books, including Macro & Close-Up Photography Handbook, Photographer's Filter Handbook: A Complete Guide to Selection and Use, and Professional Filter Techniques for Digital Photographers.

Self-taught as a photographer, Stan holds a BS degree in Physics and an MA in English from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA. Visit his website at www.StanSholik.com.

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