Author: StreetShooters.ca
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What’s Your Visual Signature?
How do I put this kindly? Most of what I see passing for street photography online and yes I am including my own work is basically awful. Over and over again, day after day we see the same meaningless superficially abstractions (not my words as you will see) that are just clever arrangements of elements.…
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DXO PhotoLab 9 or Lightroom?
I was a long-time Lightroom (LR) user having taken weekend workshop courses and online tutorials. I appreciated its database function to ingest and store images on my external hard drives. But after I retired I didn’t need all the power and functions to be found in LR and I wasn’t thrilled with the costly subscription…
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Do You Know What You’re Feeling?
Photo by Peter West Today’s video comes from The Photographic Eye YouTube channel. “How Joel Meyerowitz Shoots The Hardest Subject In Potography” is a 13 minute “how-to” video about moving from taking snapshots (which most of us do whether or not we wil admit it) to adding that certain something that makes your image come…
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This Shouldn’t Work
Sometimes bad photography actually works. Case in point is Tatiana Hopper’s new video on William Klein called Why “Bad” Photography Works. Klein’s images break just about every rule of photography. Where many of us strive for clear images that are well framed and composed and exposed and in focus. Klein’s images avoid clarity but use…
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Deep Raw Editing With DXO Photolab 9.6
Let’s start out by my saying I am not a micro-editing fan. I have some deep suspicion about whether this level of photo editing actually adds anything to the art of photograpy. But, like most things in life, I could be wrong. If you’re interested in editing the heck out of your raw images and…
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Are You Framing And Layering Your Images?
According to The Photographic Eye YouTube channel street photography right now is a bit of a hot mess. I totally agree. So much that I see posted on Facebook or Instagram is just dribble and that’s being kind. So how do we elevate our images to the quality of someone like Stephen Shore whose bland…
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Why Is Bird Photography So Darn Hard?
It looks easy. A lot of people do it. The equipment is available. There are lots of “how-to” videos online. So why oh why is bird photography so hard? On Facebook there is no end to bad bird shots. There are shots taken from too far away. Shots where there’s camera shake and everything is…
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The Decisive Moment?
During a recent Facebook discussion about the advantage of using an external incident light meter instead of a built-in reflective light meter a photographer questioned my ability to capture the “decisive moment” if I had to stop to meter the scene. The “decisive moment” has been attributed to French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and refers to…
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We made the news
One of my other hobbies is amateur astronomy. We finally got a clear night this week and a local journalist showed up. https://www.oakvillenews.org/rooted/bronte-astronomers-search-for-distant-planets-and-galaxies-12113390
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F/8 and be there
A question on the Toronto Street Photography Facebook page garnered a lot of thoughtful comment….and almost all of it of little use to the writer. So what was the question: What’s your go to aperture setting for street and why? Seems simple enough right? The photographer was asking a perfectly reasonable question to do with…
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