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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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Framing
We’re not talking about composing (that’s next) but framing. Framing is what do you pick to put into the frame? Doesn’t get much simpler than that but so many images on FB are just badly framed. Usually this means that the photographer banged off a snapshot without thinking enough about what was going to be…
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Birding
Why is it that every newcomer to photography seems to end up on FaceBook asking for advice on what camera they should buy so they can shoot pictures of birds, do portraits and maybe a little street photography? My standard answer is once you’ve read the manual for your camera and taken a few lessons…
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You’re Better Than You Think
Roni Sidhu has a great video on YouTube called: “You Are A Better Photographer Than You Think“. Roni is both a photographer and a photography instructor and he’s obviously lived the photography life and what he has to say here in his video will be immensely helpful if you’re a newcomer to photography. On FaceBook…
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How To Make $$$
First make certain you can deliver what you’re selling. Might consider a small investment in some courses or workshops with a professional instructor. I did this after I retired from 60 years of shooting pro and had a lot of fun learning how to shoot in different ways and how to edit my images. Made…
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Don’t Let Perfect…
Don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough. Online there are no end of things you can buy. You can buy a new camera and “better” lenses and new camera bags (I’m up to seven and counting.) and more editing software. And it’s software that is interesting me as now I’m scanning a…
