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Five Ways To Improve Your Photography
In this new year have you set any New Year’s resolutions around your photography? Has your photography over time gotten a little predictable maybe even boring? Are you shooting the same images seemingly over and over again? Rick Bebbington has a short 11-minute YouTube video about five things you can do to improve your photography…
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Is Digital Ruining Your Photography?
My Olympus OM-1 can fire at enormously high frame rates while still allowing auto focus to work from frame to frame. Add a wide angle fast lens and with light allowing set the aperture to F/8 to F/11 and the shutter speed to !/500 to 1/1000 with the ISO on auto you are guaranteed to…
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What Did I Come Here For?
There are a lot of reviews of street photography on YouTube as we close out 2025. If you take the time to look at some of the “best of 2025” videos one thing becomes very very obvious. There is a lot of “bad” street photography out there. So what is so bad about it? For…
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Find Your Own Skin
The year is coming to an end. This year, 2025, may well for some be a year to forget. But when it comes to photography did you like the images you created? Was it fun? Was it satisfying? Did you join a local club (always a good idea)? But what about 2026? Have you set…
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Find A Bridge – Get A Hoodie
One of the challenges all amateur photographers have compared to commercial photographers is it’s up to you to find the photo. Where commercial photographers often get told what to shoot, amateurs are on their own. It’s up to us to load our cameras and pick a lens and then find or create an image. It’s…
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Stop Taking Boring Street Photography
Our friend Tatiana Hopper has done it again. This time in her YouTube video “Stop Taking Boring Street Photos” she talks about the street photography of Ray K. Metzker. Metzker is recognized as one of the great masters of American photography whose five decade career has gone unnoticed by so many of us. In the…
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10,000 Bad Photos
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier Bresson Have you shot your first 10,000 bad photos yet? Kazu Nakajima, a Japanese photographer working in New York City has spent years shooting photos in Central Park and he has a lot to say about shooting bad photos. “Do what you love. Keep going,”…
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Getting It Right In Camera
Do you want to create better images anywhere with any camera in any light? Don’t we all but too often I’m seeing images that I don’t like especially on social media photography sites. On FaceBook, where every question can be answered by recommending more gear, the level of basic photography is often appauling. So what…
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Get off Facebook and get out there !!!
If you’re going to be a serious photographer you’ve got to get off Facebook, Instagram, X and whatever else and actually pick up your camera and go out and shoot some images. And what better time than right now as we enter into the start of what looks like a long cold Canadian winter? So…
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Point & Shoot Street
Another day and another Walkie Talkie by Paule B this time with New York street photographer Sean Fryxell. Photo by Sean Fryxell Fryxell is an interesting guy to follow. He’s got a great Flickr site and he’s on Instagram. This Paulie B video is really educational when it comes to Fryxell describing his form of…