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The theme of a March issue of Shutterbug was new lighting gear and in its pages I tested some (now discontinued) Flashpoint monolights.

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Updated: In recent days I’ve been getting emails from readers of the June issue of Shutterbug asking how the magazine’s change to bi-monthly publication will affect me. Now of course you all know that Shutterbug as a print magazine is no...

Updated Post by Joe Farace In a previous blog post, I mentioned problems I was having with my otherwise dependable Panasonic Lumix GH4. I love shooting portraits and glamour with it in the studio with its aftermarket battery grip and sharp and image stabilized Lumix G...

Today's Post by Joe Farace It's been my experience that photographers get inspiration from many places. One of my friends finds it in old master’s paintings; I get the inspiration for many of my images from the movies. I recently watched Frank Capra’s 1937 classic...

Today's Post by Joe Farace “I believe that good things come to those who work.”— Wilt Chamberlain In a post called It’s the Photographer, Not the Gear, I wrote about how many of the cameras I own were purchased as refurbs or used. Refurbs are like used cameras because...

A muse is a “woman or a force personified as a woman who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist.” In Latin, a shrine to the Muses was called a museum. Artists or poets would call on their Muse to inspire them and a poem itself might begin with such a call; thus, Homer’s Odyssey starts with, “Sing to me of the man, Muse.”