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Back before the pandemic when I used to travel a lot more than I have since, one question I would often get from readers was: Do you prefer large capacity memory cars or smaller capacity cards? And why? My answer is that I prefer large capacity cards for lots of reasons.

In a previous post on this blog about infrared photography, I suggested that you shoot in monochrome mode. no white balance needed.

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,...

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.