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Shooting the Tokyo Motor Show
Today's Post by Joe Farace Several years ago, I was fortunate to be able to attend the amazing Tokyo Motor Show and today I wanted to share some of my favorite photographs from it. For homesick Americans, like me, the Makuhari Messe facility in Chiba, where the show...
Why I Love Photographing Cars & Coffee
Today's Post by Joe Farace The weather for the past several Cars and Coffee events in Parker Colorado has been a combination of really cold—single digits F at the last scheduled event—and snow. The truth is I didn't even head down to the events; I just looked out my...
Expanded ISO Settings: Why I Don’t like’em
Today's Post by Joe Farace Some of the following text originally appeared in a print edition of Shutterbug for a review I wrote about a Nikon DSLR. Since people are always asking me my feelings about “expanded” ISO settings and why I don’t like them, I’ve excerpted...
Shooting Cars with a Holga Panoramic Pinhole Camera
Today's Post by Joe Farace Think about it: A Holga Panoramic Pinhole Camera. And for less than $60. In my post for my photography how-to blog, The Three Phases of Photographer’s Creative Life, I talk about that all-important first phase where new shooters discover...
Decision: Use Digital Zoom or Not?
Today's Post by Joe Farace Most digital point and shoot cameras have optical zoom lenses that allow you to vary their focal length and change the size of an image being captured on the imaging chip. In most camera advertising, zoom lenses are often described by the...
We’re Having a Valentine’s Day Giveaway
Today's Post by Joe Farace How I made this shot: It was shot at Parker, Colorado's Cars & Coffee using an Olympus Pen F with Olympus 25mm /1.8 nifty fifty lens. Program mode exposure, my typical choice for Cars & Coffee, was 1/1250 sec at f/2 and ISO 320....