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Creating Full Length Poses in Tight Spaces

Creating Full Length Poses in Tight Spaces

Today's Post by Joe Farace The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.-- Robert Kiyosaki I have a friend Daniel who lives in Nairobi, Kenya who is a extremely talented...

Monochrome Monday: Portrait Mode meet Landscape Mode

Monochrome Monday: Portrait Mode meet Landscape Mode

Back in the early days of digital photography, the person I think of as Shutterbug’s last great editor, George Schaub,  asked me to write a column he wanted to call buzzwords. And for the next 26 issues—The English Alphabet consists of 26 letters— i wrote a column about all the letters from A to Z.

How and Where I Photograph Models

How and Where I Photograph Models

This is a CliffsNotes version of my approach to photographing women and is not an end-all, be-all look at all of my techniques; it’s just some of my thoughts.

Is Photography Art or Commerce?

Is Photography Art or Commerce?

One of the problems that are associated with the business side of photography is that , as a professional, we don’t always get to choose the kind of assignments that come our way.

Why Not Try a Monochrome Portrait?

Why Not Try a Monochrome Portrait?

,,,that’s how I made the window light portrait of Michelle Monroe at right. The portrait was made with a Canon EOS D60 (not 60D) and EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens with an available light exposure of 1/200 at f/5.6 and ISO 800.

Keep Your Photographs Sharp and Your Glasses Clean

Keep Your Photographs Sharp and Your Glasses Clean

Many photographers, including myself, wear glasses. I guess that’s why camera manufacturers invented built-in diopter corrections! As far as I can tell, the first cameras to have adjustable diopter correction, as opposed to screw-in viewfinder adapters, were the Olympus OM’s (3 and 4) and the Nikon F4.