Joe Farace

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Digital Innovations
Software & Hardware For Your Inner Photographer; Black & White And Read All Over
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2009

“I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.”—Helmut Newton

Basking in a post-photokina gizmo haze and with dreams of PMA sugar plums still dancing on our dreams amid echoes of “Auld Lang Syne” and Wallace Shawn shouting, “Beware evildoers, wherever you...

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Digital Innovations
Software From Around The World; Image-Processing Options
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2010

“A photograph is a secret inside a secret. The more you see, the less you know.”
—Rian Johnson from The Brothers Bloom

As digital imagers in a worldwide economy we have lots of image-processing options available, not only from this country but also from software designers located all around the world. This month I’ll show you some of the latest examples of...

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Digital Innovations
Software Power Tools From PMA 2007; Plug-Ins & Presets, Oh My!
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2007

"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"--Ernst Haas

Power tools are small bits of software, be they Photoshop compatible plug-ins, Photoshop Actions, or software utilities that can make a digital photographer's life a little easier for creating practical or special effects. Much...

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Software Roundup Part II
New And Improved Tools For Producing Artistic Photographs
Joe Farace  |  Jul 01, 2001

Ever since the Pictorialist movement at the turn of the 20th century, photographers have always enjoyed applying what many have dubbed "painterly" effects to their images. Pixographers are no strangers to this desire to create artistic...

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Show Reports
Software, Memory And More
Or, The Stuff That Makes Digital Work
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2003

PMA 2003 abounded in lots of digital gear. There were digital camera bags, digital tripods, and so forth so I went looking for digital lens tissue. I failed to find it but found something better from the clever folks at Hakuba (www.hakubausa.com).

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Show Reports
Software
Programs For Every Need
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2004

There was all kinds of software at PMA 2004, but I would like to pass along some advice to would-be developers who want to get rich making under-$100 software for Windows that lets users manage, edit, print, and do all kinds of tricks. Fuggedaboutit. ACD Systems owns this market. While the Mac...

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Web Profiles
Something Old, Something New, Something... Putting Your Best Website Forward
Joe Farace  |  Jul 11, 2013  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2013
Spring will soon be here and I’m looking forward to snow melting and flowers blooming. It’s a good time to appraise your web presence and spruce it up. If you do, I have a suggestion: don’t use Adobe Flash. First, it means millions of people using iPhones, iPads, or iPods can’t view your site.
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Web Profiles
Something Old, Something New, Something…; What’s New And Exciting Around The Web
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2009

“To the complaint, ‘there are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, ‘there are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.’”—Ansel Adams

It’s June, a month of brides and Shutterbug’s Digital Darkroom special issue. In this month’s edition of Web Profiles, I’ll introduce you to a website created by an amazing...

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Compact Camera NewsCompact Camera ReviewsNewsTop Clicks
Sony RX100 VII Compact Camera Review: A Pocket Rocket with Some Serious Zoom
Joe Farace  |  Nov 26, 2019

Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 VII ($1298), to give it its full name, is the latest in the company’s series of pocketable premium fixed lens cameras. The Sony RX100 VII is the follow-up to what has become a long line of Sony RX100 cameras, preceded by the RX100 VI, the RX100 V, the RX100 IV and so on.

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Speed Demon; Photographing Race Cars With Canon's Digital Rebel
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2004

Photographing race cars is a challenge no matter what kind of camera you use. Most people think that all they need is high ISO, fast shutter speed, and a long lens with a large aperture a.k.a. "big glass." Toss in a high frame per second continuous shooting mode and with a little...

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