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...
How I Made: Walk Around...
At FOTOfusion a few years ago I conducted a workshop called “Right in Your Own Backyard” which was based on the premise that you needn’t travel halfway around the world when great photo ops are closer to home. When showing an image made, literally, in my backyard, one of the students...
Can You Have Too Many W...
After buying or trying out the third wide angle lens this month Joe told me that ”you can’t ever have too many wide angle lenses.” That’s not what my Visa card or I needed to hear. Now a fourth one has appeared, shown to me by a customer. The first lens is the spectacular new Leica 15mm...
On the Road with Mirror...
When I was at the National Train Day PhotoWalk in Denver, one of the attendees told me that he would really like to meet Mark Toal. If you live in Washington state, you can meet Mark at any or all of these events: On Thursday, June 5th: Mark will be at Huppins in Spokane, WA from 7-9 MP...
Traveling with Mirrorle...
Sigma offers two Micro Four-thirds lenses in its ART lens category, which is their series designed to “emphasize creative expression above compactness and multifunctionality.” The Sigma 30mm f/2.8 DN and 19mm f/2.8 DN lenses are designed for mirrorless interchangeable lens...
How I Made “Portrait in...
I teach an Available Portrait class and my favorite thing to show students is how to use almost any doorway to shoot a great portrait. The beauty of most doorways or even garage doors thresholds is that it’s very dark behind the subject. The dark background combined with the shade cast...
Memorial Day 2014
Since some of the people who read this blog do not live in the United States, we wanted to give today’s post a brief introduction: Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday of May and until 1882 was known as Decoration Day. It originated after the Civil War to commemorate fallen...
