When is the right time to shoot twilight?

By Tom Paiva on

This particular post is going to be directed to the film-shooting readers.  The digital shooters have the chimp-screen and histogram graphs to check on the fly.  There are a few tricks for twilight shooting for digital shooters, and will address them in a future post. One of the most common questions that is asked in …

San Joaquin “Big” Valley Towns

By Tom Paiva on

Last week, while driving to San Francisco from LA, I decided to scout some of the Valley farm towns heading north.  I also wanted to try out a new camera in the field that I just bought. The towns are Patterson, Newman and Gustine, in central CA.  There is a lot to be shot there, …