Tamron’s 14-150mm Di III was the company’s first lens designed for the Micro Four-thirds system. When originally announced, this lens was supposed to feature built-in mage stabilization but over the course of its development —there’s lots of in-body stabilization in this format—this feature was removed.

Light has four major qualities: quality, quantity, color and direction. No matter what exposure mode you select on your DSLR or mirrorless camera, seeing how light in a scene affects a photograph’s overall impact is the key to mastering the art of proper exposure. Yes, its just as much art as it is science because the final exposure controls the image’s mood.

And the truth is that for 90% of photographs that you’ll make, any one of your camera’s automatic modes do a fantastic job in producing correct exposures but its those last 10% that’ll kill you.

These days most DSLRs and mirrorless cameras that have direct monochrome capture options also let you apply digital filters to produce an effect as if you had placed a camera filter in front of your lens. If you’re new to the world of traditional filters for black and white photography, here’s a quick primer and how it will affect your images.

In a previous post, I featured a portrait of Farrin who I photographed a few years ago at a group model shoot held in Northern Colorado. During that same shoot, I also photographed her twin sister, Brenda. I mentioned that “maybe my portraits of Brenda will show up in a future post in this series.” Well today’s that day…