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Today's Post by Joe Farace The warm-up should gently prepare the body for exercises by gradually increasing the heart rate and circulation; this will loosen the joints and increase blood flow to the muscles. Stretching the muscles prepares them for physical activity...

February is Black History Month, an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of black people in U.S. history. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating black history.

Over the years I’ve posted many images of different models demonstrating different kinds of portrait lighting, posing and software techniques that I’ve used for glamour photography but whenever this blog features certain models, I get nostalgic about the shoots we had together. And whenever I post or feature any of these women’s images the Internet loves them too. And I can see why.

It has been a long time, maybe 25 years or so, since I’ve photographed a wedding but when I was testing some monolights for the former print edition of Shutterbug, I asked long-time collaborator Pam Simpson if she had a wedding dress that she could borrow and together we made today’s featured image.

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “The laughter we were glad to share will echo through the years…”—The Four Lads Over the years I’ve posted lots of photographs of different models demonstrating different kinds of portrait lighting, posing or software techniques but whenever...

Today's Post by Joe Farace "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."—Walt Whitman People’s faces are not symmetrical and most of us really have a “good” and “bad” side that photographs better or worse than the other side....