The last time I tried this PhotoWalk it was with an Olympus Pen E-P3 and two pancake lenses. This time I was planning on taking the same walk, down the same streets but photographing it in infrared with a Panasonic Lumix G5 that has a Standard IR (720nm) infrared conversion by Life Pixel.

Many photographers, including myself, wear glasses. I guess that’s why camera manufacturers invented built-in diopter corrections! As far as I can tell, the first cameras to have adjustable diopter correction, as opposed to screw-in viewfinder adapters, were the Olympus OM’s (3 and 4) and the Nikon F4.

In 1960, Peter Gowland wrote that “Light is an interpretive tool in the hands of a photographer. He can make it harsh or soft, revealing or concealing…

If you’re new to the world of using digital filters for black and white photography, here’s a quick primer aimed at portraiture.

In my Tuesday Thoughts post Photographing Places You Love, I wrote about that one of my ongoing self assignments was making images of barns, the older the better. In Today's post—and next Tuesday's as well, I'm talking you behind the scenes on one such shoot and the...