Film Friday: Canon AL-1 Before Autofocus

Film Friday: Canon AL-1 Before Autofocus

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.:– Bruce Lee The AL-1 was Canon’s first attempt at integrating a form of autofocus into an SLR but it was far from true AF. Instead the camera featured a system Canon...
Metering Exposure for Outdoor Portraiture

Metering Exposure for Outdoor Portraiture

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” — Edward Weston All modern cameras have some kind of built-in light meter and many have spot metering capabilities. When you have time, you might want...
How to Correct Color in Underexposed Portraits

How to Correct Color in Underexposed Portraits

Wheels Wednesday is on hiatus this week. Instead, World Standards Day is celebrated on October 14 to honor the thousands of experts who create technical agreements that are published as international standards. This date marks when delegates from 25 countries met in...