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...
Mark’s Quadcopter Class...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal Mark is going to be teaching a class on Quadcopter Basics on Sunday, June 21st at Glazers Camera in Seattle, Washington. This program is part of the annual two-day PhotoFest that is hosted by Glazer’s Camera. Besides Mark’s class there will also be...
Nanometers and Infrared...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace What a difference a nanometer makes.”—I think Frank Sinatra sang that… The wavelength of light is measured in nanometers or one billionth of a millimeter or microns that are a millionth of a meter. (Sometimes the term millimicron is used.) Red...
The Importance of Photo...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal Recently my father-in-law, Lou Bachrach, died at 88 years old after a long illness. Lou and I shared a love of photography and would always be the ones lagging behind to take photos on outings. As I watched Lou slowly slipping away for the past couple of years I...
Portrait Posing for New...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace When I was younger, I attended a workshop on portrait posing taught by a well-respected speaker, who was known for his classic portraiture and he demonstrated how to pose a subject. It was basically pose A, then pose B, then Pose C. After a few minutes he asked...
Welcome to the World of...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace For years, astronomers used the infrared spectrum for astrophotography of distant non-terrestrial subjects and there are plenty of terrestrial applications for infrared photography, including forensic investigation and aerial crop or forest surveys, but...
Black & White Port...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Black and white is a wonderful medium for portraits because a lack of color simplifies the image, placing the focus on the real subject of the photograph—the person. Sometimes the nature of a subject demands the image be photographed in black and white....
