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Question: Does Expression Sell Portraits?
Today's Post by Joe Farace The short answer is that "you bet it does." There's an old photographer’s saying called ESP that means Expression Sells Portraits. It's based on the assumption that the subject’s expression tells the story of who they are and that, when...
Questions and Answers for Joe in the New Year
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I enjoy hearing from this blog’s readers, especially those with questions about photography, the blog, my cameras or whatever else...
Working with LED Modeling Lights: Pros & Cons
Today's Post by Joe Farace "Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface" — Garry Winogrand The biggest upside to me of using an LED source as a modeling light in a studio flash is that there are no more bulbs to lose or break. An LED also...
How-to Technique: A Two LED Portrait
Today's Post by Joe Farace “Lighting is really common sense and personal observation. This is applied to a few rules of photography which cannot be broken and to others which I tend to bend a little.”—Paul Beeson These days it seems that using LED lighting systems for...
Creating Cartoons from Your Photographs
Today’s Post by Joe Farace "I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids."—Jeff Kinney Cartoons & Pop Art is a set of Photoshop actions from Panos Efstathiadis, the proprietor of PanosFX, an amazingly talented designer of Photoshop actions. Panos says...
Shooting Portraits in the Snow
Today's Post by Joe Farace In the past, a camera's in-camera meter tended to dramatically underexpose from all the reflected light in snowy conditions. The old rule-of-thumb for shooting snow with film SLRs was to overexpose the indicated exposure by two-stops. But no...