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Why I Don’t Compete In Photo Contests And Why You Should Consider It
My good friend and fellow mentor at The Oakville Camera Club Deepak Patel has posted an excellent piece on whether or not you should consider entering your photographs in a juried competition. The Oakville club holds its annual gala and juried competition for club members called Capture Oakville and the images that get choosen for…
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Why Are Some Photographers Better Than The Rest Of Us?
The Toronto Camera Club in conjunction with camera retailer Henry’s Cameras are offering a series of workshops featuring some amazing Canadian photographers. If you’re a member of the Toronto Camera Club the 12 presentations are part of the membership but tickets are available to the general public and all the sessions will be accessible via…
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Where Is Your Photography Going?
Are you tired of just posting on Facebook or some other social media site? Ever thought about creating a connection with your bigger community? In Oakville, Ontario the Oakville Camera Club holds an annual competition and gala called Capture Oakville. It’s supported by the municipal government and takes place at one of the Town’s premier…
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There Are No Rules
This is a street portrait of two young women taken on the street at this year’s Gay Pride festival. It’s one of my most favourite images of the year so far. So how can you shoot environment portrait photography? Well our friend Ben Staley of Adventure and Art YouTube channel has a master class on…
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How To Shoot A Festival
I watch a lot of YouTube videos about photography and this one from the Adventure & Art site by Ben Staley is worth the hour. It’s a master class on how to shoot a special event. Why watch? Because Ben, who is a top-tier environmental portrait photographer, pulls off an amazing job using minimal equipment…
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What Is Photography
According to Wikipedia: Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. Notice photography isn’t gear. Gear is gear. If you want answers that are all about gear to go FaceBook and ask a question about photography and…
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How To Go Pro
This morning on Facebook a new photographer armed with her entry-level camera and kit lens and way more enthusiasm than knowledge asked 130,000 random strangers on Facebook for advice on going pro. Of course, being Facebook she got a ton of bad advice about what gear she should buy. I offered a different suggestion. Here’s…
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How To Shoot Weddings
The simple answer is don’t! There’s a very good reason I haven’t posted a photo of a wedding on this page about how to shoot weddings. The answer is I don’t shoot weddings! I mean I have shot weddings in the past but I won’t do one now and it’s for the same reasons you…
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How To Shoot Sports
I’m starting a series of short posts on how to setup for various forms of photography. Remember photography isn’t about gear. Gear is about gear. Photography also isn’t about settings or recipes or pre-sets or even editing in a raw editor. Photography is about light and exposure and composition. Having said that we see daily…
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Costa Rica
A dream photo trip to Costa Rica to shoot birds, snakes, frogs, crocodiles resulted in 20,000 frames to be edited. This took a week using OMWorkspace to cull that number down to 200 images for consideration to be edited. What started as an off-hand comment from one of our mentor photographers in the Oakville Camera…
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