Joe’s Book Club: Chapter Three

Joe’s Book Club: Chapter Three

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.— Graham Greene Continued from “The...
An Affordable 85mm f/1.4 Lens: What’s the Catch?

An Affordable 85mm f/1.4 Lens: What’s the Catch?

Today’s Post by Joe Farace The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. —Henry David Thoreau Once upon a time, I was having breakfast with a photographer/friend and we were talking about lenses and I mentioned that my favorite for...
A Guest Post from Barry Staver

A Guest Post from Barry Staver

Today’s Post by Barry Staver Joe received the (below) thank you note from the mother of a young person that he featured in his former Web Profiles column for the print edition of Shutterbug and sent it to me a few days ago to read. Joe’s a modest guy who’s...
Film Friday: Things to Come

Film Friday: Things to Come

Today’s Post by Joe Farace One of my favorite classic movies is 1936’s Things to Come that was based on a script by H.G. Wells and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The film begins in Christmas 1940 and Everytown resident John Cabal (portrayed by Raymond Massey)...
Glamour Photography with a Light Bulb?

Glamour Photography with a Light Bulb?

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “How many digital photographers does it take to change a light bulb? They can’t, there isn’t enough light unless they use flash.”— Ray Bromley, When used for portraiture, how much light output is a single LED light bulb...
Spending Easter on Easter Island

Spending Easter on Easter Island

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Much to my wife’s consternation I’ve always wanted to visit Easter Island to, what else, photograph “the heads.” I’ll probably never make this bucket list trip so this infrared photograph made at the...