Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace—Chuck Jones. Yes that Chuck Jones who also said “Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.”

It may come as a surprise to some of you but I sincerely believe that you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on equipment to make high quality glamour or boudoir photographs. Of the three mirrorless camera bodies that I regularly use only one of them was purchased brand new.

So dust off that old film camera or hang out on eBay to find the film camera of your dreams to discover out what the fuss is all about.

I am not now nor have ever considered myself a dedicated landscape photographer. Oh sure, I dabble in it when shooting infrared landscapes and have lots of fun doing that but living here in Colorado it’s impossible not to be some kind of a landscape photographer, even a half-hearted one like me who does it mostly for fun.

The output of studio flash units, from monolights to power pack & head systems is typically measured in Watt-seconds (Ws,) a unit of electrical energy that’s equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second. Sometimes you’ll hear this measurement called a Joule but it all boils down to a way to measure the power and discharge capacity of an electronic flash’s power supply.