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Shooting High Key in Your Home Studio
Today's Post by Joe Farace There are lots of things you’ll have to consider when working in your home studio beginning with tailoring its possibilities to the available space. In turn, that space will help determine the kind of lenses and the focal lengths you’ll be...
Technique: Cut and Paste Portraiture
Today's Post by Joe Farace I have a confession to make. Not all of the portraits you see on this blog (or in my books) come from a single image file. Sometimes, maybe about 2-3% of the time, the subject's facial expression that I like isn't on the the pose that I...
Studio Lighting: Paradigm Shifts in Technology
Studio lighting hardware is going through its biggest paradigm shift since the invention of the flash bulb in 1929. Along the way, there have been trends and fads with LED’s seemingly having equal parts of both and appealing to new and mirrorless portrait shooters who are interested in capturing stills and video.
Soft Focus or Blur for Portraits?
Today's Post by Joe Farace When it comes to portraits, you don’t always want tack sharp photographs. Blur and selective blur, when applied to an ordinary photograph can create an impression of the subject that's more pleasing than reality. But sometimes the...
When Photographing Kids: Be Sure to Fill the Frame
Today's Post by Joe Farace One of my friend Rick Sammon’s favorite expressions is that “the name of the game is fill the frame” and that’s good advice, especially when shooting with entry level digital DSLRs that may only have a few autofocus points. And that’s doubly...
In the Studio with a Panasonic Lumix GH4
Today's Post by Joe Farace We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein I don't know if you had been following the saga of some of the technical problems that I previously had with my first Panasonic Lumix GH4; you...