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A soft box is an enclosure built around a light source that typically has reflective side and back walls with diffusion material at the in the front to soften the light.

I’m often asked about what kind of camera a photographer should choose to have converted to infrared-only capture. For me, that has always been a simple question: I pick the oldest one that I own and also one that I use the least.

Over all of the years I’ve posted many different photographs of different models demonstrating various photography, portrait lighting and even software techniques but whenever certain models are featured I seem get a higher than normal number of likes, questions and responses to these particular images.

Despite how this book’s title sounds, The Million Dollar Car Detective by Slayton Bonner is a non-fiction book. While it’s ostensibly about the world of collector cars, it’s really the tale of two men: One is the protagonist; the other is his friend and later nemesis, one of which or maybe both of them appear to be IMHO, lying their a**es off.

When using the substitution method of exposure, you replace an object within the scene you’re photographing with an object of known reflectance, such as a Kodak Gray Card, and then take a reflected-light meter reading off this object.

Today is #anythingcanhappenday on this Blog. Lately, I've increased the number of glamour and portrait-related posts on this blog and based on the number of page views, people seem to be enjoying them. This is a genre I’m passionate about and was the subject of my...