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Shooting with Affordable LED Portrait Lighting
Today's Post by Joe Farace In the past several years years, the LED's use as a light source for portraiture has increased as more companies release products in this space. One of the most versatile and inexpensive LED lighting systems that I've used is Rotolight’s...
Choosing Backdrops for Portrait Photography
Today's Post by Joe Farace There are lots of options for choosing backdrops for portraiture, starting with the material used. Muslin is a closely woven cloth produced from corded cotton yarn but what’s endeared it to photographers is that it’s light weight. A muslin...
Using Continuous Light in the Studio
Today's Post by Joe Farace The pictures have a reality for me that the people don’t. It is through the photographs that I know them.” —Richard Avedon “Light,” as a wise photographer once told me, “is light.” The most important characteristics of any studio lighting...
Working in Toontown: Cartoon Portraiture
Today's Post by Joe Farace But I’m a toon. Toons are supposed to make people laugh.”— from the 1988 film Roger Rabbit Mixing genres: Glamour photography meets comic book art? PanosFX's "Cartoons and Pop Art" action set works much like a Swiss Army Knife using a...
Finding Models though Agencies
Recently a reader asked where to find glamour models. But since you asked, Thurman, here are a few positive and negatives of one method that I’ve use to find models.
Is a Smartphone a Camera?
If you described a brand new digital camera like that some people would say “it’s a digital Holga,” but I don’t think anybody would say, “that sounds like a great camera.” And in a cruel twist of fate, there is a Digital Holga available and it’s pink!