Black & White Proc...

Today’s Post by Mark Toal with Joe Farace I’ve had several questions from this blog’s readers about how I process my black and white images. I wrote a post for Joe’s Blog—Saving the World, One Pixel at a Time—about how to set your Micro Four-thirds camera to black and...

Why I like Infrared Pho...

Today’s Post by Joe Farace I recently received an e-mail from a reader of this blog asking “why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard?” Here’s my answer: Most photographers go through three distinct phases when learning and refining their skills: The...

Shooting An Environment...

Today’s Post by Joe Farace, photography by Mark Toal The classic definition of an environmental portraiture is that it’s a portrait executed in the subject’s living, working, or just paying environment and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. By photographing...

Black & White Port...

Today’s Post by Joe Farace, photographs by Mark Toal Black & white is a wonderful media for making portraits because the lack of color simplifies the image, causing you to focus on the real subject of the photograph instead of their clothing or surroundings. Sometimes the nature of...