Author: StreetShooters.ca
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Why Buy A Printer?
With a local camera dealership (Henry’s) offering almost 50% off their PIXMA iP8720 photo printer now is the time to get into printing your images. But wait you might say. Why do I want a printer? Aren’t they expensive and hard to get right? Well the Henry’s sales is putting a printer in your hands…
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How To Shoot Parades
It’s parade season and YouTube photographer Paulie B has done it again with his excellent video “Don’t Photograph Parades”. As one of the photographers in the video says: Don’t shoot the parade. Shoot the people.” Paulie arrives more than an hour before the parade and starts looking for “people” images. Basically he’s warming up and…
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Shooting Your Home Town
The magic of the unexpected Tomorrow (Saturday March 29) rain or shine we’re holding a photo walk in Oakville, Ontario. The walk is mainly for the photographers from the Oakville Camera Club but I suspect a few more friends may show up. Street photography is one of the hardest forms of photography in my opinion…
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This Is How To Do Street Photography With People
I show my own images (and those of Marion West) just for fun (this is of mine from Carribana 2024 in Toronto) while I post on a variety of photography-related subjects on this site. And with a photo walk I’m leading coming up this weekend in Oakville, Ontario I thought we might look at how…
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Why is so much street photography just bad snaps?
I am struggling to understand why so much of what we see from street photographers especially on FaceBook, Instagram and YouTube is so very bad. Often it’s bland, vacuous and of no purpose whatsoever. And then you run into someone like Steven Tanno’s YouTube videos of shooting street photography in places like Kyoto, Budapest, Vienna,…
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How To Shoot A Protest
This Sunday anti-Israel rallies planned for Al-Quds Day have the potential to turn violent. These annual protests are expected to take place at major cities across the country. Previous protests have attracted some who glorify extremists and call for the death of Jews and chants of Death to Israel and Death to America are common.…
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Small Camera Street
Nothing is better than to chance upon a street festival or jazz outdoor event or Toronto Comicon, a three-day celebration of all things comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, gaming, or cosplay featuring hundreds of dressed up kids (and some adults). What’s even more fun is doing the shooting during an outing of The Toronto Photo Walk.…
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Composition
photo by Marion West Change the way you look at photography forever. Sounds like a big ask? It’s not as hard as it sounds and Photo Tom in this easy to understand video on composition and how important finding the right subject can be when it comes to your photography. Watch this and learn how…
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Shooting People & Dogs
Last post we talked about shooting street photography without shooting any people. This time let’s talk about shooting people while doing street photography. There are two ways of shooting people on the street. First is candids where the subject remains unaware that you’ve taken a photo. The joy of candids is you get unrehearsed real…
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No People Street Photography
On Saturday, March 29 I will be conducting a workshop on street photography in downtown Oakville. Anyone who is a member of the Oakville Camera Club can attend for free. We will start at a local coffee shop and I’ll offer my thoughts on what is street photography and how to do it whether you’re…
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