by Joe Farace | Jan 30, 2019 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace It has been a long time, maybe 20 years, since I photographed a wedding but when I was testing some monolights for the former print edition of Shutterbug, I asked long-time collaborator Pam Simpson if she had a wedding dress that she...
by Joe Farace | Jan 17, 2019 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Camera lenses are traditionally optimized to focus at infinity, not within close-up range but the best macro lenses, such as Tamron’s 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD lens let you focus to life-size (1:1) magnification. The lens also has built-in...
by Joe Farace | Jan 8, 2019 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Recently the good folks at Olympus America were kind enough to lend me their 17mm f/1.2 PRO lens for testing. This is another in Oly’s series of fast, f/1.2 lenses and continues a trend I mentioned in a recent Shutterbug review of fast, big,...
by Joe Farace | Dec 28, 2018 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace with John Larsen PanosFX’s FILMSTRIPS is a bundle of three sets of Photoshop actions that create filmstrip effects inspired by classic 35mm film. These actions produce fully layered and editable Photoshop images that use...
by Joe Farace | Nov 23, 2018 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.”—Edwin H. Land In 1947, Polaroid introduced the Land Camera Model 95, its first consumer camera. At the time I was just a kind but was mesmerized by the concept. It wasn’t...
by Joe Farace | Nov 17, 2018 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace I’ll admit to having a love/hate relationship with social media. I mostly use social media to communicate with my book and article readers to tell them about posts on this new blog and my car photography website/blog. But it...
