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I really want to bring back #filmfriday and today’s post is my attempt to do so. I can’t promise to do it every Friday but I will give it a try. I have finally been hit with the reality—what everybody had been yelling at me about— that shooting film is expensive and cranking out a weekly post is not practical for me, at least not at this time. But I’m going to try anyway, so hang in there with me as I take a look at one of my favorite 35mm film cameras…

Conventional lenses are optimized for focus at infinity not for close-up photography but true macro lenses are corrected for close focus and can also be shot at infinity. Canon’s EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM, for example, has a floating optical system that lets it focus to life-size (1:1) magnification at four-inches allowing you to fill the frame with a subject the size of a penny.

A long time ago, my friend Rock Sammon wrote a newspaper column in which he dubbed me the “Plug-in King” and I did write the book Plug-in Smart! Regular readers know that I often like to use Photoshop-compatible plug-ins to enhance my photographs.

I’ve been interested in infrared photography for more than forty years but was re-introduced to the concept of digital infrared photography when a student at one of my workshops—in Miami—showed me her images made with the Hoya infrared filter

I often hear photographers tossing around color temperature numbers and talking about how many “K” or Kelvin that a particular studio light produces. But…

The Seven Mile Bridge is a famous bridge in the Florida Keys, located in Monroe County. It connects Knight’s Key, part of the city of Marathon, Florida. in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges in existence when it was built, it is part of the Overseas Highway in the Keys, which is part of the 2,369-mile U.S. Route 1.