Joe Farace

In today’s post I veer away from the normal assortment of photography tips, tools and techniques to get a little personal… Other than how to pronounce my name and where do I find my models, people sometimes ask, “where is Daisy Hill?”

Camera and software companies like to say that their products are “easy-to-use,” sometimes forgetting that part of making that actually happen can create unrealistic expectations. But user errors can also be responsible for much of the frustration of capturing, enhancing and printing digital images. So here’s a few tips to minimize that user error and improve your photography at the same time:

Let’s get this out of the way first: Equipment doesn’t make portraits, people do.