Guest post by Joe Farace The classic definition of macro photography is that the image projected onto the digital sensor or film plane should be the same size as the subject. At a 1:1 ratio, a digital SLR with a full-sized chip should have the ability to produce life-size magnification and focus on an area ...
A great question came up in my Twitter feed recently, and felt it was worthy of putting together a short post to help explain the whole concept of zoom on cameras. The original tweet asked: “What’s the best focal length on a lens to reach 400 yards so I can see a 1 inch square ...
As promised, the March contest series has drawn to a close. The winner for March gets an excellent copy of the book: “Studio Lighting Anywhere”! Thanks to my good friend, Joe Farace for contributing not one but two copies of this book to some lucky participants! The winners are: aimeeern and SpikeOne2011 ...
As promised, today I am going to take a closer look at Photoshop Touch from the folks at Adobe. Designed to give photographers on the go something for doing quick edits on their mobile devices (i.e. an iPad), Photoshop Touch is basically a light version of the full Photoshop application that sits on your desktop computer.
When Lightroom 4 hit the virtual bookshelves a couple weeks ago, there was quite a bit of buzz in the blogosphere. I’ve even talked briefly about it solo here on the blog (albeit in Beta format), but now that the hubbub has all died down, it was great to take a step back and really look at the nitty gritty details of the application with the calculating eyes of Laura Shoe!