by Joe Farace | Jan 18, 2019 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace All modern cameras have some kind of built-in light meter and many even have spot meters but I still occasionally use a hand-held meter, especially when photographing people outdoors. My current hand-held meter is an old Gossen Luna...
by Joe Farace | Jan 17, 2019 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Camera lenses are traditionally optimized to focus at infinity, not within close-up range but the best macro lenses, such as Tamron’s 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD lens let you focus to life-size (1:1) magnification. The lens also has built-in...
by Joe Farace | Jan 9, 2019 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.” ― Salvador Dalí Any portrait shoot is a team effort so its important that you talk to your subject and discuss what you...
by Joe Farace | Jan 8, 2019 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Recently the good folks at Olympus America were kind enough to lend me their 17mm f/1.2 PRO lens for testing. This is another in Oly’s series of fast, f/1.2 lenses and continues a trend I mentioned in a recent Shutterbug review of fast, big,...
by Joe Farace | Dec 28, 2018 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace with John Larsen PanosFX’s FILMSTRIPS is a bundle of three sets of Photoshop actions that create filmstrip effects inspired by classic 35mm film. These actions produce fully layered and editable Photoshop images that use...