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...
Controlling Flare? Or I...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace In a previous post entitled “What Inspires You to Make Photographs?” I talked about how much I liked the Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH lens. But I also commented that it tended to be a bit flare-prone. Yes, flare can be used as a compositional...
Using Old Lenses with M...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal Last week I had coffee with my friends Tracy and Jan. Tracy is a lens expert and loves adapting old film-based lenses to his mirrorless cameras, while Jan loves to shoot with Micro Four-thirds cameras. Tracy made a portrait lens from an old movie projector...
How I Shot a (mirrorles...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal I’ve got to admit I was a little nervous when I agreed to shoot a wedding using Panasonic’s GH4 and FZ1000 cameras. In the past I had always photographed weddings using Nikon APS-C cameras and their really good but heavy lenses. Part of the reason I gave up...
Tips for Winning Photo ...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace, photos by Mark Toal I admit to being ambivalent about photography contests but I know that many shooters are driven to compare their work against others . And I get e-mails from readers asking for “contest winning tips” and so for those of you who asked,...
Finding Vivian Maier &#...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal I finally watched the movie “Finding Vivian Maier” after hearing this interesting story for the past couple of years. If you don’t know the story of how her negatives were found after her death be sure to check out the movie or Google her...
Quadcopter Diary Part 2...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal Please read Part I: Learning and remembering how to use the remote controller can be a little tricky. For some reason in all the videos I watched on YouTube I couldn’t understand where to set the two switches on top of the remote controller. My friend Dave...
