Where Did Farace’s Laws Come From?
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Never confuse the improbable with the impossible: Burke’s Law.”—Burke’s Law, 1963 During the boom in photography magazines I also wrote for several computer magazines, but that was before the Dot Com bust decimated them too. Back when I was...
A Few Recent Trends in Portrait Photography
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”— Ralph Hattersley In the December issues of the former print editions of Shutterbug, I used to write about what I saw as current trends in photography. Since this...
How I Shot a Magazine Cover
Today’s Post by Joe Farace The theme of the March 2013 issue of Shutterbug was new lighting gear and in its pages I tested some (now discontinued) Flashpoint monolights. If you saw a previous post about Farace’s Laws of special effects, I’ve found that the...
Thursday Vibes: Understanding Depth of Field is Not Difficult
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “And the wide-angle (lens) meant poor depth of field.”—Peter Robinson, in his book Not Dark Yet. Mr. Robinson is a widely respected UK-based writer of mystery novels but I’m sorry Peter, a wide angle lens means that you...
