No man is really dead unless he breaks faith with the future, and no man is really alive unless he accepts his responsibility to it.—from the 1943 film, A Guy Called Joe, starring Spenser Tracy

Digital noise has many causes and I’ve written here about all of them. While there are many reason for seeing noise in your images—and it’s possible it may not bother you—no noise reduction software that I’ve tried, so far, is perfect.

There are three possible ways to approach the question of color balance when you’re talking about infrared photography…

One of the things I like to do to get myself out of a rut is to shoot photographs in monochrome. It doesn’t have to be all of the images that I make during a session; maybe just a few.

My Sunday series on outdoor portraiture continues today with a portrait of Corinne, who is not a model and yet she is someone that I photographed during a group model shoot in Phoenix. Arizona. I’ll explain how that all worked out…