Creating a One Light Mirrorless Studio Shoot

Creating a One Light Mirrorless Studio Shoot

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Portrait Techniques Week continues today with… Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of monolights. For this shoot with Pam Simpson I used a single  (now discontinued) Flashpoint 180 monolight. This was a compact...
Making a Two Light Low-Key Headshot

Making a Two Light Low-Key Headshot

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Portrait Techniques Week continues today with… A head shot or headshot is a modern (usually digital) portrait in which the focus is on the person. The term is applied usually for professional profile images on social media,...
Film Friday: Adventures in XPan Land

Film Friday: Adventures in XPan Land

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Film Fridays are back… “How many cameras do you own?” was a question that Joe Meehan asked me and some other photo magazine editors at one of the last film-based photokina trade shows. One former Shutterbug editor said it was...
Is the Format of the Medium the Message?

Is the Format of the Medium the Message?

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”― Marshall McLuhan I believe that the camera you use and the way that you use it determines the format or shape of the final image. Look no further than...