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I strongly believe that you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on camera equipment to make really good boudoir or glamour photographs. Although it’s true that most professional photographers shoot with top-of-the-line DSLR’s or mirrorless cameras you don’t have to do the same thing. (Especially if you can’t afford to.)

On Monday I talked about my approach to obtaining proper photographic exposure but I also recognize that exposing for invisible light can be more of a challenge. So today I wanted to share some thoughts on how I approach exposure for infrared photography….

For many years, I didn’t have a standalone studio. In the somewhat distant past, I had one but for twenty years between than and moving into Daisy Hill. I made all my portraits on location. For the past ten years I’ve been shooting in my 11×15-foot home studio but, if you read last month’s post, that is probably going to change and I’ll be back to on-location shoot, if I can find any models that is. Living in Colorado, it gets cold in the winter and sometimes it snows, lots of snow. If I lived in Florida or Arizona where Mary wants us to move to, I might have a different way of choosing shooting locations.

One of the advantages digital imaging has over shooting film is the different ways that you can sharpen images. Most image editing programs contain a Sharpen command that works by raising the contrast of adjacent or edge pixels but sometimes this technique increases sharpness at the expense of increasing contrast too

In my Film Friday post Why I Want to Shoot Film Now I talked about all the advantages I found about shooting film and most of them, such as Surprise, Travel, and Time, apply to medium format film photography, only more so. To which I would like to add the concepts of a slower pace and working speed, the deliberateness that medium format enforces or maybe reinforces is a better choice of words.

March 19 is the Feast of Saint Joseph. Josef Sudek once said, “I don’t like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.”