The Last Post: End of the Road
Today’s Final Post by Joe Farace On January 1 2018, I announced via my Instagram feed—if you’re not following me there please do It’s @joefarace—that I was taking a hiatus from blogging to focus on my personal photography. That hiatus ended and while I’ve started blogging again, it’s somewhere else and with some differences. I’m no longer Editor or contributor to the Mirrorless Photo Tips blog. After today there will be no new posts added to this blog and URL. As we move my other sites to a...
Lens/Adapters for Micro...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal Panasonic and Olympus Micro Four-thirds cameras both have kit lenses whose focal lengths start at 14mm (28mm equivalent.) Both companies also make and expensive wide angle zooms but I wanted an inexpensive, small fixed wide angle, which the Panasonic 14mm...
How I Made “Portr...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal If you think that grabbing frames from 4K video is going to make taking a good photograph too easy for the masses then stop reading this post right now. For this photo of Dion I set up two Westcott LED Skylux lights and a Westcott black X-Drop pop-up background...
Using LED as an Accent ...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal I love it when somebody introduces me to something so simple that I feel I should have known about it all my life. Last week while photographing a Rat Rod my friend Art Larsen showed up with an inexpensive LED light with a yellow filter on the front for us...
Having Fun with 3D Mirr...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal The basic idea behind 3D photographs is to make two identical photos as far apart as your eyes and then view them in a way that makes them look three dimensional. Fuji and Panasonic made dedicated 3D point-and-shoot cameras but you can use your Micro...
Finding a High ISO “Swe...
LED studio lighting systems are a good match for today’s high performance SLRs that have high ISO capabilities. When testing Rotolight’s Anova LED studio light I shot an ISO bracket to see what ISO settings would work best in my studio, ultimately producing a test strip showing a bracket...
How I Made “Sunfl...
It’s the height of flower season here in Portland, Oregon where I live. I don’t normally photograph a lot of flowers. After working in photo labs for 25 years I saw enough photos of flower and cat to last a lifetime or two. I had been trying to photograph both of these flowers outdoors...
