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...
The Difference? Where t...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Ansel Adams once famously said that the difference between a good picture and a bad one was “knowing where to stand.” For studio photography you can add that the difference is also in knowing where to place the lights. Let me show you what I mean: ...
Recycle Your Old Camera
Today’s post is by Mark Toal Old camera bodies, whether SLR or mirrorless, tend not to have much re-sale value, especially by the time you get around to buying your next new camera. We’ve probably all have an older camera body sitting around that we don’t use much sitting in a closet...
Follow Your Passion �...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal I’m frequently asked how I find the things that I photograph? The answer is that I follow my passions and interests. A good example is my steam train photography. A few years ago, my photo group—do you belong to one?—went on a tour of an old steam train...
SP&S 700 Steam Tra...
Today’s Video by Mark Toal It’s been a while since Mark has shot some of the great-looking photographs of trains that he has graced this blog with in the past. Today as a treat for owners of 5K monitors and 5KiMacs, Mark produced this short feature to show a 4K video clip...
Make Self Portraits Not...
Today’s Post by Mark Toal The art of the self portrait seems to have turned into a way to say “look where I am and whom I’m with.” At least that’s what it said in an article It’s a way to say “look at me, I’m here.” In reality photography and painting have a long...
Free Photoshop Actions ...
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Here’s a beautiful set of free Photoshop actions for Mac OS and Windows that my friend in Greece, Panos Efstathiadis, is giving away for visitors to his site PanosFX during the holiday season. The actions create three different types of seamlessly...
