Joe Farace

One of the easiest ways to improve your images is to use lens filters, but like so much in the photo world, life is rarely that simple.

"The software stopped working when I upgraded from Windows 92 to Windows 95."
"You sharpened this photograph? I didn't know you could do that."
"If we go digital, what are we gonna do with all our old film processing equipment?"
"I gotta get a...

Growing up there were few books in my house—I learned to read from newspapers—and the only one I remember seeing was my Dad’s copy of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s Two Years Before the Mast.

These days, digital minilabs from Agfa and Fuji have made producing inexpensive, good looking prints directly from memory cards as easy as shooting film, but just as the person who wants to create more expressive film images needs the creative control...