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Revisiting My Former Muse: Erin Valakari redux
In their book, One Face Fifty Ways YouTubers Imogen Dyer and Mark Wilkinson demonstrate lighting, posing and other portrait techniques that were used to capture the many different looks and moods of a single model. This is similar to an approach that Gary Bernstein used with Kay Sutton York in their 1988 book, Burning Gold, that I mentioned two weeks ago.
Update: What’s So Medium About Digital Medium Format?
Today’s Opinion from Joe Farace Fujifilm's introduction of the 102-megapixel GFX100 got me thinking about medium format and a post I wrote for my old blog called “What’s So Medium About Digital Medium Format?” In the seventies, when I got serious about making...
In the Studio: Shooting with Power Pack & Head Systems
Today's Post by Joe Farace In my recent post In the Studio: Shooting with Monolights I talked about what I saw as the advantages of using monolights. But what about using power pack and head systems? Are they an option? Here's a few things to consider: AC/DC: Most...
Revisiting a Muse: Erin Valakari
Today's Post by Joe Farace The Wordy Wednesdays feature ran on my old blog for many years and at one point I decided it was time for a change. Inspired by Gary Bernstein’s 1988 book Burning Cold that featured images of his beautiful model/wife I decided to see how...
Posing for Glamour Photographs: On Location
Today's Post by Joe Farace These days I have an in-home studio but in the not-so-distant past, I shot all of my glamour images in my home, working mostly with window light in the kitchen, dining room and a loft area outside my home office. And while I now have access...
Seamless, Scheamless—Backgrounds That Is
Today's Post by Joe Farace Backdrops may not be the main focus of a photograph but they can not only enhance an image, they can improve it in many ways by simplifying the background, placing the emphasis on the subject. In fact, I think that the right backdrop can be...