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Capture Oakville 2024
Capture Oakville the Oakville Camera Club’s annual exhibition and contest has come and gone. The quality of images and the excellence of the actual photo reproduction is simply second to none. It was, in my opinion, one of the very best years ever. The good news is if you find yourself in Oakville, Ontario over…
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“Photography Is Easy, Photography Is Difficult”
Photo by Paul Graham Paul Graham’s essay “Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult” (2009) is a worthwhile read for anyone contemplating street photography or for experienced street photographers who some days just wonder why do we do it as it seems to get harder the more often we shoot. Read the eassay. Now go out…
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Should I Ask?
When it comes to street photography a lot of new photographers ask whether or not they should get permission from their subjects before shooting. And the answer is, of course, it depends. Asking permission will automatically kill any spontaneity and naturalness to the image. A lot of the best street photographers don’t. I just got…
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Will AI Ruin Photography?
All over FaceBook photography sites photographers’ hands are being wrung red and doom is predicted as artificial intelligence (AI) starts learning photography. So what do you think? Are you with doomsayers that artificial photography will ruin photography as we know it? Why even in my photography club (Oakville Camera Club) artificial intelligence is being used…
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What FB Gets Wrong
Photo by Marion West You see it everyday on FaceBook. Somebody, usually somebody new to photography, asks “what or what settings did you use to get that photo?” What they should have asked was “how did you see that photo!” Asking what settings or what camera tells you nothing about how the photographer saw the…
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The Photographer In Your Face
I talked about The Oakville Camera Club’s Exploration # 37 “Strangers Up Close And Personal” in my last post but there’s more! This teaching event is all about shooting street photography but with the twist that the photographer must make some sort of personal connection with the subject. So how do you go about walking…
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Our Town
Photos from a few hours of shooting folks in our town – Oakville, Ontario, Canada – May 18, 2024 Our club, the Oakville Camera Club, offers a lot of training and photography opportunities for members. A vibrant, big club we’re blessed to have a wide spectrum of talent and newcomers. One of the opportunities offered…
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How Do I Get Better?
I see this plea daily on FaceBook. Somebody with a new digital camera or a new-to-them old film camera posts a bunch of really bad images and asks for advice on how to improve their photography. How bad could these images possible be? Well a lot of them are really out of focus. Some of…
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How Far Is Too Far?
I normally don’t do this preferring to use my own images but for teaching purposes i’m using an Ansel Adam’s image that includes the printing instructions he sent to his printer to create the final print on the right. So how far is too far when it comes to image manipulation? When it comes to…
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It’s A Playground
If you’re new to film photography or even if you’ve been around for awhile Karin Majoka has posted a video you should watch. In her April 16, 2024 how-to-do-it video Karin reviews the 13 most common mistakes newcomers make when buying and using film cameras. In my 60+ years of shooting film I think I’ve…
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