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Shoot Black & White & Color at the Same Time
Today's Post by Joe Farace These days most DSLRs and mirrorless cameras offer built-in black & white or sepia capture modes and some even offer other options. Canon's Nostalgia Picture Style, for example, that let you enhance the gray tones in an image while...
Getting Correct Exposure Using the Substitution Method
Today’s Post by Joe Farace In all of the photography workshops that I’ve conducted, the number one questions that’s asked has to do about obtaining correct exposure. Even though with digital camera you can get a pretty good idea of the exposure right after you capture...
Photographing a MOPAR Drag Racer
Today's Post by Joe Farace The above image is a Dodge drag race car that I photographed at a SEMA show a few years ago. It’s intended to be an homage to the upcoming MOPAR Mile High Nationals—NHRA championship drag races—that will be held July 15 - 17, 2022 at...
Techniques for Shooting Motorsports
Today's Post by John Larsen The basic techniques that are required to cover a motorsports event can essentially be broken down into four categories: panning, head-on, three-quarter and close-ups. Panning photos with visual impact require a blurred background and...
Want to Achieve Proper Exposure? Bracket
Today's Post by Joe Farace And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.—Tori Amos There's an old joke that goes: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The answer is practice, practice, practice. In fact that's one of the goals of my Snap a Frame a Day plan for National...
Riding in a Maserati MC12
Today's Post by Joe Farace Why am I smiling? I just finished a ride in a friend’s Maserati MC12, around his private race track that you can see in the background. The track is a scaled down version of Sebring International Raceway. And no, I couldn’t ask this...