I think the best way to improve your photography is by practicing. You should at least try to make photograph each day until you can get to the point where you don’t have to think about how to operate your camera.

Hard work never killed anybody.”— advice often offered by one’s parents. My own parents never gave me that particular piece of advice, probably because they knew better.

Kodak’s UltraMax 400 is a relatively high-speed daylight-balanced color negative film that offers wide exposure latitude as well as a relatively fine grain structure producing what Kodak claims to be “consistent and accurate colors.”

There are all kinds of ways to improve or simply learn new lighting techniques. I happen to believe that the absolute Best Way to Learn Studio Lighting is by Doing It.

While the classic infrared shot is in black and white, you can add some color—depending on the on-camera filter or infrared conversion used, add the so-called blue sky effect to an infrared photographs. While I think the overall effect is cool, I was surprised to learn that some of you think it’s that great of an effect. And so, in our never-ending quest to provide as many options as possible for all forms of infrared (and car) photography, I would like to present a few alternatives: