Author: StreetShooters.ca
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More On Metering
Another Facebook question on metering prompted this reply from me: Metering is one of the most misunderstood functions of modern-day DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. You can do entire weekend workshops on metering so a quick answer on Facebook isn’t going to cover the ground. There are three main types of meters: reflective (as found in…
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Street Photography As A Defense Of Democracy
This is an interesting concept. Photographer Morten Albek suggests in this video that street photography can be viewed as a statement in support of deomocracy. I know when I was in Germany the concept of street photography was very very different than street photography in Canada. Albak also talks about this difference and street photographers…
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RTFM – V2
I got a response from a comment I made to a new photographer who asked a really basic question about how to find a menu item in his new camera. I said “read your manual” and my FaceBook friend asked if RTFM (read the furbished manual) was my answer to every question and he’s right…
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The Preset Problem
Everybody it seems is selling presets. There are presets specifically for use in Lightroom by the thousands and there are presets built into some raw editors like Exposure 7 and others. Presets, especially for beginners, can seem like a great idea. After all a preset is merely a small program that adjusts the sliders on…
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Street Gear
This is Jaylin Da’Shawn and he’s a street photographer in New York City. He was recently featured in a Paulie B Walkie Talkie interview and if you’re interested in street photography then Jaylin has a lot of good things to say to you. But we’re not here for Jaylin’s excellent wisdom on street photography. We’re…
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Street Videos
The Oakville Camera Club is offering members an opportunity to learn a little bit about street photography in a few weeks. We’re thinking of starting at a local coffee shop for a little chat about street photography and what it is and what it isn’t and then we’re hitting the sidewalks of Oakville, Ontario. In…
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Walk On The Wild Side
The photographers at the Oakville Camera Club are planning a street photography workshop and walk coming up in March. So what is street photography? Despite what you might have heard it’s whatever you want it to be. Street photography is an opportunity to walk around your community carrying your camera. Maybe you want to document…
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Zoom Lenses
This is from a Facebook query. There are two types of zoom lenses. One has a fixed or constant aperture and the other has a variable aperture. The fixed aperture zoom will remain at the aperture you set no matter where you set the zoom. The variable aperture zoom varys the aperture depending on where…
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More On Birds
First of all birds – especially Canada Geese and ducks in Oakville (Ontario) habour – disappear when the temperature hits -8 degrees C and no wind as it was today (Sat. Feb 8/25). But on Thursday morning there were thousands of birds both on the water and flying above the dozen or so bird photographers…
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Bird Settings
There are a couple of ways of setting up your camera to shoot birds in flight. This morning (Feb. 6/25) it was rainy and breezy and for whatever reason our Canada Geese were almost continuously flying overhead. We had about a dozen photographers from the Oakville Camera Club. So how do you set up your…
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