by Joe Farace | May 9, 2022 | *All Posts, Laguna Seca, motorsports
Today’s Post by Joe Farace No matter what kind of camera you use, photographing race cars on the track can be a challenge. The typical recipe mixes high ISO, fast shutter speed, and a long lens with a large aperture. Toss in a high frame-per-second continuous...
by Joe Farace | May 5, 2022 | *All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry…—Don McLean I’s been more than three years since I sold my Mercedes CLA 250 and, to tell the truth, I don’t miss it very much. Evidently Mercedes Benz agrees with me: As first reported...
by Joe Farace | Apr 29, 2022 | *All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough.— Parnelli Jones I like to think that there are basically two kinds of portrait photographers: The first one likes to shoot with “available light” by which they really mean “every...
by Joe Farace | Apr 20, 2022 | *All Posts, Watkins Glen
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Like Jim Hayes, whose post Preserving Memories at Watkins Glen is worth a read, I have a lot of old images of cars and vintage motorsports action that were shot on 35mm slide film. There are some that I also shot on negative film too...
by Joe Farace | Apr 18, 2022 | *All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Back in the days when manufacturers thought we wanted lenses with depth-of-field scales and infrared focusing marks—as if autofocus actually freed us from these technical concerns—they used to include lots of what now many companies think of...