By John Ellis I first heard of infrared photography more years ago than I would care to admit. It always held a fascination for me but also a bit of intimidation. Not because of the obvious aspects of...
What? Nature Photography with a Rangefinder? Sometimes in the fall the best images are right at your feet, literally. I had just watched a leaf spiral to the ground and I wanted to convey the feelin...
Author: Joel Wolfson The title of this article poses an excellent question. If you aren’t familiar with plug-ins, they are mini imaging programs that work in conjunction with Photoshop, Lightroom,...
Author: Joel Wolfson My Preference for Mirrorless over DSLRs It was a “Wow!” moment. I don’t say it very often when it comes to camera gear- in fact only about once a decade over my 30 year phot...
Author: Joel Wolfson My last mirrorless post was about my “Wow!” moment with the A7R II and why I switched to mirrorless after decades of using DSLRs. It’s been about a year and now that the h...
Author: Joel Wolfson Texture Effects, Topaz’s latest plug-in (also operates stand-alone) is the easiest way to add textures and a whole lot more to your images. It’s a huge time saver over cre...
Author: Joel Wolfson Photography is sometimes called the bastard art. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is that everyone owns a camera or smartphone and considers themselves capa...
Joel Wolfson will be presenting two learning sessions at Arizona Highways Photo Workshops’ 30th Anniversary Symposium. Here’s more about his “Travel Photography: Domestic and Abroad” sessio...
Author: Joel Wolfson While conducting a workshop in Tuscany I met this man in one of the small villages where we take our participants. He spoke no english and in spite of my sparse Italian vocabulary...
Author: Joel Wolfson I went through my best selling fine art images and found that most of them had a predominant presence of yellow in them. Why would that be? Because colors affect us both psycholog...