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Getting Your Glow On
Today's Post by Joe Farace Topaz Lab's Glow is a clever and affordable ($34.99) Photoshop-compatible plug-in that’s as much fun to use and play with as a 100 pound box of Lego. At its simplest, Topaz Glow lets you create different glow effects and adjustments with...
“The Love Bug” Opens in Theaters
Joe reports that: On this day in 1969, “The Love Bug,” a Walt Disney movie about the adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie, opens in theaters across the United States. The film was based on a 1961 book called “Car, Boy, Girl” by Gordon Buford, centered around...
Shoppers Guide to Camera Filters
Today's Post by Joe Farace Camera filters are available in lots of different different shapes, sizes and materials including delicate gelatin filters that drop into holders or lens hoods, glass filters that screw onto your lenses and rectangular filters that fit...
Welcome to My Garage: Video
Today's Post by Joe Farace In my post So Long Frank Lloyd Wright: Goodbye CLA 250, I said goodbye to my 2016 Mercedes-Benz. In that post I also asked, "what’s in store for the next Joe Car?" I mentioned that I hoped to talk a friend who has an old Mercedes Benz AMG...
Photographing Joe Cool’s VW Bus
Today's Post by Joe Farace Mary and I are longtime VW enthusiasts. Somewhere I have a photograph of Mary when she was a little baby with her mom and dad, standing next to their 1952 VW Beetle. (When I find it I will scan it and post it here.) As more kids were born...
Camera Features I Love: Exposure Compensation
Today's Post by Joe Farace To me, the exposure compensation control is one of the most important parts of any DSLR or mirrorless camera and it’s the first control—after how to adjust the ISO setting—that I look for when shooting a new camera. It’s been my belief that...