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Today's Post by Joe Farace "When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera."— Patrick Demarchelier Sometimes colored on-camera filters are referred to by their Wratten numbers. The English firm of Wratten & Wainwright...

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Recently my friend, the talented photographer Cliff Lawson, and I have been talking about working together on a few video projects. One of the planned projects is a short video for my car photography site and will feature interviews with car...

One of the birthday gifts that Mary gave me three years ago was a Paul C Buff DigiBee—in blue. I remember when the company introduced the original Alien Bee monolights at the (former) PMA trade show. These compact monolights were affordable, colorful and built to the same high quality standards that are the hallmark of all Paul C Buff designs. Mr. Buff is no longer with us but his company hasn’t lost his commitment to excellence in innovation in lighting products.

Today's Post by Joe Farace Here are a few common questions I get whenever writing a post about using LED lighting for portraits: How bright are they? Are they really daylight balanced? What's the quality of the light> The answer to question #1 is not very but as a...

Today's Post by Joe Farace This weekend, my webmaster Tim Fiedler and I will be moving this site from the host that has been running it for the the past several years to one that will provide better service as well as SSL support. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the...

Today's Post by Joe Farace My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.—Helmut Newton I get lots of e-mail from photographers who are interested in trying glamour photography and it's one of the reasons that I wrote, Joe Farace's Glamour...