Shooting Olympus’ Nifty Fifty 25mm f/1.8 Lens

Shooting Olympus’ Nifty Fifty 25mm f/1.8 Lens

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “If you don’t think your lens is long enough, you’re not close enough.”—Robert Capa The myth of the 50mm lens and Henri Cartier-Bresson was that he preferred using that focal length with his Leica because it allowed the photograph to...
Joe’s Movie Club: The Best Movies of 2011

Joe’s Movie Club: The Best Movies of 2011

Today’s Post by Joe Farace There appears to be some consensus among many cinema lovers that there are not many great films being released these days. Factoid: Of 2021’s top ten box office hits only one was not a sequel or an IP project. (Intellectual property is...
Film Friday: Joe’s Film Box for August

Film Friday: Joe’s Film Box for August

Today’s Post by Joe Farace No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.—Robert Adams Kodak’s GC/UltraMax 400 is a high-speed daylight-balanced 35mm color negative film that I have been wanting...
How to Please Book and Magazine Publishers

How to Please Book and Magazine Publishers

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”—George Bernard Shaw And to answer the question that I proposed above, I don’t know how. For reasons I’ve never fully understood, over the years,...