Author: StreetShooters.ca
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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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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,…
