Today’s Post by Joe Farace My personal philosophy is that photography should be fun. Part of having fun is trying new things. To me, digital infrared photography is lots of fun because it helps you look at your world in a new way and lets you create images that look unlike any other technique you’re likely to try. That alone is a good enough reason to try infrared digital photography. How I made this shot: I photographed this scene at 17...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace One of the problems with traditional, continuous “hot lights” is that they are, well, hot and are not all that comfortable to work under for subject and photographer alike. Looking for something cooler? Welcome to a world of continuous light sources powered by fluorescent bulbs. I know what you’re thinking, don’t fluorescent lights produce horrible green light? As it turns out daylight-balanced fluorescent lights are the...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.”—Helmut Newton As I’ve written about before on my former blog, I like to take walks during the day to get a bit of exercise, clear my head and sometime try out new equipment, which was the case on this particular day. I had just borrowed a Panasonic Lumix G7 and wanted to give it a bit of a test drive. (PS, I never bought a G7, although...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace A digital camera’s sensor typically sees light in wavelengths from 350 to 1,000 nanometers*. Your eyes, on the other hand, see a range of light from approximately 400 to 700 nanometers. *A nanometer (nm) is a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter. Most digital cameras place a low pass filter in front of the sensor that allows low frequency light that’s visible to the human eye pass through to the...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace As a creative medium, what traditionalists call “monochrome” some digital imagers prefer “grayscale,” but it’s still black and white to me. But there is more to black and white photography than just an absence of color. Black and white is a wonderful media for making boudoir portraits because the lack of color immediately simplifies the image, causing you to focus on the real subject of the photograph instead of their...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace It’s been chilly this week, here on Daisy Hill, which got me thinking of warmer climes and warmer times, which then got me thinking about Key west. The Geiger House in Key West, Florida is now known as the Audubon House, and was built by Captain John Huling Geiger in the 1840s as a family residence. Four generations of the Geiger family lived in the house for nearly 110 years. Originally slated for destruction in...
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created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality.—Ernst HaasAt a time when everybody who writes a blog is an expert, I’ve have been writing about photography, cameras and studio lighting since 1981 and digital photography since 1989. I’m passionate about photography and if you would like to get some additional photo tips from all that experience, please follow me on Twitter, Pinterest with an occasional post on Instagram In these places, you’ll also get a peek at my personal life, work and other stuff I’m interested in. If you like automobiles, you might want to visit my car photography website and read a related blog at JoeFaraceShootsCars.com.
Learn MoreI strongly believe that photographers should use whatever kind of camera—DSLR or mirrorless that they like and can afford. Personally I’m a thrifty shopper and many of the cameras that I use everyday were purchased as either used or as “refurbs.”
Over the years photographers have asked me about the kind of gear I use and this page is my answer for them and anyone else that’s interested. I tend keep most of my gear in specific bags so that I can grab one, two or three bags and go.
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