Photography at the Racetrack

Photography at the Racetrack

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...
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie…

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie…

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...
Car Portraits: Photographing a Drift Driver

Car Portraits: Photographing a Drift Driver

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...
Accessories: A Lens Pouch for the Rest of Us

Accessories: A Lens Pouch for the Rest of Us

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...