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Best Raw Editing Software
Here we go without another “it depends” answer. When it comes to picking a raw editor it depends on your editing goals and your budget. The good news is a lot of software manufacturers offer free trials to test out their app before you get your wallet out. If all you need is an editor…
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Bad Photo Editing
Now this might come as a shock but I did not love every photo that was on display (and this includes some of the category winners) at this year’s Capture Oakville juried photography competition put on by the Oakville Camera Club. In fact I thought some of them were over edited to the detriment of…
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Raw or JPG?
Are you confused about the difference between raw format and JPGs? If so this short video by Canadian wildlife photographer Simon d’Entremont will provide a lot of answers. “IS RAW BETTER? You may be surprised! Basically one of the main issues between the two formats is with raw format you must edit your raw file…
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Are You Over Editing?
“You’re Probably Editing You Photos Wrong According To Ansel Adams” is Tatiana Hooper’s newest YouTube video and if you’re editing your own negatives or raw files you might just want to listen to what Tatania and Ansel have to say about your editing. So why are you editing your images? Is there something you think…
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Why Is So Much Street Photography Just Crap?
Have you noticed that so much of so-called street photography posted on photography websites on Facebook and Instagram is just vacuous crap? Sure it’s exposed correctly and edited nicely and I’m sure 75% of it at least was shot with a $3,000 to $5,000 vintage Leica (or a $10,000 new one) but the posted image…
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Getting It Right In Camera
There’s a lot of online disagreement about the meaning of “getting it right in camera”. When I ran the black and white darkroom for a daily newspaper there was an obvious difference between negatives that were properly exposed, framed and composed and had been properly developed in the right chemicals at the right temperature with…
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Do You Want 242K Followers?
Maybe you already know Ryan Daniel? Online he’s also known as pale bule wave where he posts portraits of strangers in Portland, Oregan. Over the years he as amassed an amazing number of followers for his simple street portraiture work. Perhaps you’d like to start a street portraiture page featuring your images of people you…
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What Have We Lost?
Photo by Peter West As our friend Tatian Hopper writes in her introduction to the YouTube video “What Digital Photography Took Away” we’ve lost something important when it comes to digital photography. “Grain. Blur. Light leaks. Imperfect exposures. These are all things that digital photographers fix instantly or even delete. But what if those weren’t…
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The Ghosts Are Still Here
Troy Williams is a lot more comfortable setting up street portraits. Where a lot of street photographers shoot candids and Troy still does but his superpower is just walking up to people and asking for a portrait. Shooting in New York Troy has no end of willing subjects. This is a master class in how…
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2,500 Undeveloped Rolls
Photo by Peter West That’s the number of rolls of film that Garry Winogrand discovered in his darkroom upon his early death at 56. Winogrand is considered by many to be one of the absolute masters of street photography. Known to shoot with both black and white and colour film cameras around his neck it’s…
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