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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.

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....

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...

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...