Whether shooting headshots with speedlights, pack & head systems or monolights, one of the best ways to improve the quality of their light output is by attaching an umbrella or a softbox

Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won’t engulf my head, I can see by infrared,—Douglas Adams

The techniques I wrote about in my book, Joe Farace’s Glamour Photography, and that I’ve used for this kind of portraiture in the past are really simple and don’t require lots of expensive equipment; all you really need is a camera and a subject.

In a recent post, Film or Digital: My Current Leica Dilemma, I asked my readers what they should advise me regarding expanding my path of film photography or spending my camera budget on an admittedly expensive (but older) Leica digital rangefinder. The response was basically, “why are you wasting time with film photography, go digital.”

The first Friday of October is World Smile Day that was proposed by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist as a response to his creation of the smiley face.