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Shooting Portraits with Sigma’s 30mm F1.4 DC HSM lens
Today's Post by Joe Farace The Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens is part of the company's Art series and has an angle-of-view equivalent to 45mm for APS-C format digital SLRs like the Canon EOS 60D I tested it with. The lens has a Hyper Sonic Motor and produces quiet (for...
Using a Handheld Meter for Portraits
All modern cameras have some kind of built-in light meter and many even have spot meters but I still occasionally use a hand-held meter, especially when photographing people outdoors.
Looking at Macro Options: Tamron’s 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Lens
Today's Post by Joe Farace Camera lenses are traditionally optimized to focus at infinity, not within close-up range but the best macro lenses, such as Tamron’s 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD lens let you focus to life-size (1:1) magnification. The lens also has built-in image...
Photographing Different Kinds of Portrait Subjects
Any portrait shoot is a team effort so its important that you talk to your subject and discuss what you and they would like to accomplish during a shoot. Many times I’ve seen photographers shooting portraits but expecting the subject to do all the work. Sometimes that approach works and sometime it doesn’t…
First Impressions: Olympus ED 17mm f/1.2 PRO
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Recently the good folks at Olympus America were kind enough to lend me their 17mm f/1.2 PRO lens for testing. This is another in Oly’s series of fast, f/1.2 lenses and continues a trend I mentioned in a recent Shutterbug review of fast, big,...
Have Fun with Panos FX Film Effects
Today's Post by Joe Farace with John Larsen PanosFX’s FILMSTRIPS is a bundle of three sets of Photoshop actions that create filmstrip effects inspired by classic 35mm film. These actions produce fully layered and editable Photoshop images that use non-destructive...