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Creating a One Light Mirrorless Studio Shoot
Today's Post by Joe Farace Portrait Techniques Week continues today with… Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of monolights. For this shoot with Pam Simpson I used a single (now discontinued) Flashpoint 180 monolight. This was a compact battery...
Making a Two Light Low-Key Headshot
Today's Post by Joe Farace Portrait Techniques Week continues today with... A head shot or headshot is a modern (usually digital) portrait in which the focus is on the person. The term is applied usually for professional profile images on social media, images used on...
Film Friday: Adventures in XPan Land
“How many cameras do you own?” was a question that Joe Meehan asked me and some other photo magazine editors at one of the last film-based photokina trade shows. One former Shutterbug editor said it was somewhere around two hundred. I did some mental calculations and came up with 25, although that might have been a little low.
Is the Format of the Medium the Message?
I believe that the camera you use and the way that you use it determines the format or shape of the final image.
In the Studio: Shooting with a Two-Light Monolight System
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Elinchrom’s D-Lite RX 4/4 Softbox To Go Kit is a versatile two-light kit that includes a 26x26-inch softbox, an octagonal softbox, two light stands with a case, and a durable storage bag. An earlier version of the kit, that I used for this...
Field Testing: Sigma’s 14-24mm f/2.8 DG DN Art Lens
Today’s Post by Joe Farace As I’m testing the Panasonic Lumix S1R, I’ll also be reviewing some L-Mount lenses that area available from Sigma. Today it's the 14-24mm f/2.8 DG DN Art lens that provides an angle-of-view of 114.2 to 84.1 degrees: First impressions are...