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I started the concept of Farace’s Laws when I was writing for ComputerUser magazine back before the dot-com bust. Shortly after starting the gimmick a CU reader emailed that he had “heard about these Farace’s Laws for years” and wanted to know what it was all about. The idea was based on the TV show Burke’s Law and with my tongue firmly in cheek, I continued using it in my writing about photography.

Today's Post by Joe Farace Chiaroscuro, as Italian Renaissance painters called it, is the use of differing contrasts of light to achieve a sense of three dimensionality within a two dimensional frame. Light has four major characteristics including color, quality,...

I don’t think it was a Christmas present, but once upon a time my old pal Jason gave me a Russian-made Horizon 202 rotating lens panoramic camera as a gift. The Horizon is an all-mechanical camera, no batteries included, no batteries needed.

If you purchase one of Panasonic’s full frame cameras, like the  Lumix S1R, chances are you’ll be able to get it with the Lumix S 24-105mm f/4 Macro OIS lens as a kit, so typically the package a good deal.

My friend Mark Toal is a big fan of  the Auto ISO setting that’s found on most DSLRs and mirrorless cameras but up until recently I was not. I even wrote a post about why I didn’t like this feature. The main reason I didn’t like Auto ISO is because most of the software that’s used by DSLR’s and mirrorless cameras seem to favor higher ISOs (and higher noise) than I thought was really necessary. But since that original post I’ve changed my mind, mostly because of the efficient way that modern cameras handle noise.

Sometime in the early 1970’s I bought a new Nikon F2 and in those days, you typically purchased a camera with a 50mm lens. The next lens that was added to my Nikon system was one I’d longingly pressed my nose against the window of Ritz Camera’s Baltimore Street store, the Sigma 16mm f/2.8 with built-in filters. I loved that lens and here we are all these years later and I’m looking at another Sigma 16mm lens…