Use a Pre-Shoot Portrait  Checklist

Use a Pre-Shoot Portrait Checklist

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin I think communicating with your subject is the most important aspect of making effective portraits. That process can start with the initial contact and then move...
Camera Filters Can Be a Wise Investment

Camera Filters Can Be a Wise Investment

In 1972 journalist Harold Pullman Coffin proposed National Nothing Day as a “non-event” to be observed — by doing nothing — every January 16. Since the trappings and pomp of the holiday literally add up to nothing, like its namesake, there’s not a lot to tell....
Mirrorless Glamour Photography with a Macro Lens

Mirrorless Glamour Photography with a Macro Lens

Today is #anythingcanhappenday on the Blog and it’s also National Bagel Day. These rounds of dough can be found in breakfast joints, coffee shops, supermarkets and vary wildly in their quality. Locally, Einstein Bros Bagels are helping fill my cravings but my...
Car Portraits: Photographing a Drift Driver

Car Portraits: Photographing a Drift Driver

It’s #wheelswednesday and today is the first post in a three-part (at least) series of Car Portraits  where I am shifting the theme’s focus from the cars to the people that drive them. The series begins with this portrait I made of Courtney who is a drift...