Working in Toontown: Cartoon Portraiture

Working in Toontown: Cartoon Portraiture

Today’s Post by Joe Farace But I’m a toon. Toons are supposed to make people laugh.”— from the 1988 film Roger Rabbit Mixing genres: Glamour photography meets comic book art?  PanosFX’s “Cartoons and Pop Art” action set works much like a Swiss...
Finding Models though Agencies

Finding Models though Agencies

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Recently a reader asked where to find glamour models. But since you asked, Thurman, here are a few positive and negatives of one method that I’ve use to find models. Update: This post was written almost four years ago and much of...
Is a Smartphone a Camera?

Is a Smartphone a Camera?

What do you call a box with a plastic, wide-angle lens, tiny imaging sensor and no way to control aperture, shutter speed of ISO setting?”—Joe Farace Today’s Rant by Joe Farace If you described a brand new digital camera like that some people would say “it’s a digital...
Head-to-Head: Monolights vs Speedlights

Head-to-Head: Monolights vs Speedlights

Today’s Post by Joe Farace At one of our last Coffee and Cameras—I know, we need to have another one soon—we talked about lighting and the disparity in cost between speedlights and monolights. A Canon 600EX II-RT speedlite costs $499, a Nikon SB-5000 AF...
A Second Look/Firmware Update for Nikon Z 6

A Second Look/Firmware Update for Nikon Z 6

Today’s Post by Joe Farace I’m calling my initial post about Nikon’s Z 6 a “second look” because by now all of the influencers and YouTubers have had a chance to play with and talk about this 24.5MP mirrorless camera. Instead my second look will come at the camera...