Remembering the Sunny 16 Rule

Remembering the Sunny 16 Rule

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman The Sunny 16 Rule goes something like this: To take a photograph in bright sunlight, you set the camera’s aperture to f/16 and then set the...
Tuesday Thoughts: Lens Testing with a Brick Wall

Tuesday Thoughts: Lens Testing with a Brick Wall

Today’s Post by Joe Farace It’s also National Chocolate Milkshake Day that is a day that brings chocolate and ice cream lovers together. Forget the calories for just this one day and enjoy a sweet tall, thick and delicious, chocolate milkshake! I was never...
Joe’s Movie Club: Paddington 2 vs. Citizen Kane

Joe’s Movie Club: Paddington 2 vs. Citizen Kane

LANGUAGE WARNING: ON VIDEO CLIP Today’s Post by Joe Farace For a short time, the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating for Paddington 2 was higher than Citizen Kane, which led some Internet pundits to claim that the bear was a better movie than Welles’ opus....
Looking at Infrared Capture Options: Filters

Looking at Infrared Capture Options: Filters

Today’s Post by Joe Farace There are, at least, two basic methods for capturing infrared images with mirrorless cameras: The first is by mounting an infrared filter such as the Hoya R72 on a camera’s lens. Other filters, such as Singh Ray’s I-Ray or Cokin’s A007...