Joe Farace

A monolight is a self-contained studio flash. Within a single, compact housing, the light contains a power source, modeling light,  flash tube and controls.

Black and white is a wonderful media for creating portraits because it produces such a classic look and portrait photographers around the country have told me that more and more portraits  are being sold as black & white prints.

When I was a young photographer I asked my mentor, what was the worst thing I could do during a portrait shoot. My guess was that he would tell me not to make some kind of technical mistake but to my surprise he said, “not talking to the people.”