The last time I tried this PhotoWalk it was with an Olympus Pen E-P3 and two pancake lenses. This time I was planning on taking the same walk, down the same streets but photographing it in infrared with a Panasonic Lumix G5 that has a Standard IR (720nm) infrared conversion by Life Pixel.

In 1960, Peter Gowland wrote that “Light is an interpretive tool in the hands of a photographer. He can make it harsh or soft, revealing or concealing…

If you’re new to the world of using digital filters for black and white photography, here’s a quick primer aimed at portraiture.

In my Tuesday Thoughts post Photographing Places You Love, I wrote about that one of my ongoing self assignments was making images of barns, the older the better. In Today's post—and next Tuesday's as well, I'm talking you behind the scenes on one such shoot and the...

All the ingredients for making effective outdoor portraits are easy to assemble: All you need is a subject, a camera and some light but like any recipe it’s how all these elements are combined that goes into cooking up a delicious portrait.