In Portraiture: Put Your Best Face Forward

In Portraiture: Put Your Best Face Forward

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”—Walt Whitman People’s faces are not symmetrical and most of us really have a “good” and “bad” side that photographs better or worse than...
Question: Does Expression Sell Portraits?

Question: Does Expression Sell Portraits?

Today’s Post by Joe Farace The short answer is that “you bet it does.” There’s an old photographer’s saying called ESP that means Expression Sells Portraits. It’s based on the assumption that the subject’s expression tells the story of...
Questions and Answers for Joe in the New Year

Questions and Answers for Joe in the New Year

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I enjoy hearing from this blog’s readers, especially those with questions about photography, the blog, my cameras or whatever else...
Working with LED Modeling Lights: Pros & Cons

Working with LED Modeling Lights: Pros & Cons

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface” — Garry Winogrand The biggest upside to me  of using an LED source as a modeling light in a studio flash is that there are no more bulbs to lose or...
How-to Technique: A Two LED Portrait

How-to Technique: A Two LED Portrait

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Lighting is really common sense and personal observation. This is applied to a few rules of photography which cannot be broken and to others which I tend to bend a little.”—Paul Beeson These days it seems that using LED lighting...