It’s St Patrick’s Day. And while I am not of Irish descent—my grandfather and his brother, who my father an I are named after—were immigrants from Sicily—I like to think that on St. Patty’s Day, we’re all a little bit Irish.
Today’s Post by Joe Farace
“St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time—a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.” —Adrienne Cook
I enjoy hearing from this blog’s readers, especially those that have questions about photography, this or my car photography blog, cameras or whatever else may be on their minds. If you have any questions or would like me to address a specific topic, take a look at a certain piece of equipment or even explain or explore a technique, click on CONTACT and let me know. And for the best question that I receive, I’ll send them a small gift.
How come there aren’t more questions about the business of photography in your Q&A posts? I would like to start a photography studio and need all the help I can get. —F.B.. Tucson, AZ
Most of the traffic on this blog occurs during the week, Monday through Friday. But if you are a regular reader, you may have noticed that since for the past year or so I’ve also been posting on Saturdays and Sundays too making this a seven-post-a-week blog.
This increase in postings has been an experiment and, most times, these posts are not accompanied by social media shout-outs so you need to visit to find out what’s new. The topics on these weekend post tend to be slightly different than my Monday through Friday posts, with Sunday posts being business focused. I plan to continue with this seven-posts-a-week format until further notice.
But, and this is most important bit: Most of this blog’s readers don’t seem to care about the business of photography or, at least, don’t care for my opinions on this subject. Instead, they care about how to make photographs, not how to make money making photographs. But I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll email a PDF of my semi-autobiographical eBook about the business of photography for free to you or anybody else who wants it. I never got around to finishing all the cosmetics on the eBook and the only person who has read it, John Larsen, says there are a few glitches. If you don‘t mind a few cosmetic faux pas the book is yours.
How I made this photo: Mary and I were motoring on a previous St. Patrick’s Day and saw this “leprechaun” crossing the road. I grabbed the Canon EOS Rebel T3i, turned it on, zoomed the EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens to 135mm and handed the camera for Mary to photograph him. Program mode exposure was 1/500 sec at f/10 and ISO 400 because you never know when you might get another chance to photograph a leprechaun.
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