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...
Scanning Your Old Car Racing Photography Slides
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...
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...
The Shelby 427 Cobra
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.”—Carroll Shelby Is there a more iconic number in the automotive...
The Olympus Ferrari Camera
Today’s Post by Joe Farace If you’ve looked around this website and blog you already know I love cars but I also like cool, compact cameras to keep in my pocket for pit walks and strolling around cars shows. Unlike the previous Olympus Ferrari digital...Follow Me
