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Shooting Outdoor Portraits on Sunny Day
Today's Post by Joe Farace Exposure Techniques Week continues with a look at shooting outdoor portraits on sunny days... According to the Current Results website that summarizes published data and research papers on weather, wildlife and the environment, the Denver...
Models Wanted: for Socially Distanced Outdoors Shoot
Today’s Post by Joe Farace If you missed Tuesday’s post, A Socially Distanced Model Shoot, please take a look at it now…or if you prefer you can just keep reading. The concept is the same. I’ll be offering free outdoor and socially distanced model shoots at the...
A Socially Distanced Model Shoot
Today’s Post by John Larsen Since the COVID-19 pandemic started many things in our world have changed. Here in Canada, something as simple as a fun photo shoot has been prohibited for health and safety reasons. Just before Canadian authorities implemented widespread...
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.