How to Produce the Blue Sky Infrared Technique

How to Produce the Blue Sky Infrared Technique

Today’s Post by Joe Farace In a previous post, I promised to show you how I produced the blue sky infrared technique when working with cameras converted for IR capture using the “Enhanced Color” (equivalent to 665nm) filter. This type of filter allows a certain...
Celebrating Women’s History Month II

Celebrating Women’s History Month II

Today’s Post by Joe Farace In many parts of the world, even here in the “good ol USA,” women are being discriminated against and may even have less access to education and economic opportunities. That’s why throughout this month, people will organize demonstrations...
Shooting Through a Translucent Background

Shooting Through a Translucent Background

Today’s Post by Joe Farace There all all kinds of portrait backgrounds that are available from all kinds of backdrop companies. This is a topic that I recently wrote about in my post Studio Basics: Working with Props & Backgrounds. One of my favorite...
March is Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Women’s History Month is celebrated every March to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8 and highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. In the United States, the United...
Shooting Portraits with Budget LEDs

Shooting Portraits with Budget LEDs

Today’s Post by Joe Farace The use of LED as a light source for portraiture has really increased in the past several years years as more lighting equipment companies release products in this space. And one of the most versatile and inexpensive LED systems is...
Studio Basics: Working with Props & Backgrounds

Studio Basics: Working with Props & Backgrounds

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important”— Jacques-Henri Lartigue  They may not be the subject of the portrait but the right prop and background...