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...
Adding Color to Infrare...
Creating the “Blue Sky Effect” in Infrared Photography is not difficult. You start by having a cameras converted for IR capture using the “Enhanced Color” filter and then follow this up with some rather basic Photoshop techniques (shown below.) PS: I’m not saying this is the...
More is More: ThinkTank...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace In the May ’15 issue of Shutterbug magazine, I wrote a Gear Guide column about camera bags. In it I mentioned 25 different makes of photography gear bags and since then I’ve found another half-dozen more. As my mirrorless camera system has grown (see the...
The Russians Are Coming...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal From writing this blog post I get a lot of photo accessory recommendations. One of my co-workers, Jack Salamanchuk, knows that I love quirky cameras and lenses so when he called and suggested a Russian-made Helios 44M 58mm f/2 lens I had to order one. It has a...
Working with Lighting R...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace If you’re new to studio lighting (although the concept applies to available light portraiture as well) you may have heard the term “lighting ratio.” In photography, the term lighting ratio refers to a comparison of the main light (from which shadows fall) to...
Up, Up High and Away: P...
Today’s Post by Jamie Zartman I love photographing balloons whenever I have an opportunity to do so. The balloon’s colors are rich, at these altitudes the early morning launch temperatures are cool, and the combination of silence and the occasional blasts of burners make for quite the...
Photographs and Memorie...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal Last week I had to fly to Florida to help move my mother into a nursing home. She has lived alone for most of her 92 years. One of the first things we did was to bring photos from her apartment to her new room so she could feel at home. As I looked around her...
