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Google+ Bites the Bullet and Other Sad Tales
Not an April Fool’s post by Joe Farace Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!—Shakespeare's Hamlet: Act 5 Scene 1...
Stupid Photographer Tricks
…in which I share some of the dumb things I’ve done over the years and that, for some reason, always seem to involve attractive women. Or as Bob Ross once said, “We don’t make mistakes, we make happy accidents.
Nice Mice at the Right Price
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Let me shift away from my normal photo-oriented blog posts to write about a computer product, but one that you use every day and wouldn't be able to process a single RAW or JPEG image without it. I’m talking about your computer's mouse. My...
Shooting a Bridal Portrait in my Studio
It has been a long time, maybe 20 years, since I photographed a wedding but when I was testing some monolights for the former print edition of Shutterbug, I asked long-time collaborator Pam Simpson if she had a wedding dress that she could borrow and together we made today’s featured image.
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...
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,...