Shooting High Key in Your Home Studio

Shooting High Key in Your Home Studio

Today’s Post by Joe Farace There are lots of things you’ll have to consider when working in your home studio beginning with tailoring its possibilities to the available space. In turn, that space will help determine the kind of lenses and the focal lengths...
Technique: Cut and Paste Portraiture

Technique: Cut and Paste Portraiture

Today’s Post by Joe Farace I have a confession to make. Not all of the portraits you see on this blog (or in my books) come from a single image file. Sometimes, maybe about 2-3% of the time, the subject’s facial expression that I like isn’t on the...
Shooting in Your Home Studio

Shooting in Your Home Studio

Today’s Post by Joe Farace If you’re a regular reader of this blog or follow me on Instagram (please do at @joefarace) you know that a few years ago, my basement was flooded causing lots of damage to my basement, including my in-home studio. My basement studio...
Studio Lighting: Paradigm Shifts in Technology

Studio Lighting: Paradigm Shifts in Technology

Today’s Post by Joe Farace par·a·digm shift: a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. Studio lighting hardware is going through its biggest paradigm shift since the invention of the flash bulb in 1929. Along the way, there have been trends and...
Soft Focus or Blur for Portraits?

Soft Focus or Blur for Portraits?

Today’s Post by Joe Farace When it comes to portraits, you don’t always want tack sharp photographs. Blur and selective blur, when applied to an ordinary photograph can create an impression of the subject that’s more pleasing than reality. But sometimes...