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16,000 steps
Saturday’s photo walk with the Toronto Photo Walk group was a great success. We met at a coffee shop at the south end of Bathurst Street just east of the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto and began making new friends right away. By the end of the walk (which ended at a beer pub!)…
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More Flash
Let’s start with your flash on your camera. Bright but harsh contrasty light might make for a great newspaper shot at a fight in a bar but it’s not what you’d want to use for a wedding or any indoor special event. The easiest way to modify the light is to bounce it. Most flash…
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Basic Flash
Understanding how and when to introduce a flash to your photography is the first step for many into professional level shooting. So what’s a flash? Basically a flash is an artificial light source that can be attached to your camera (direct flash) or used remotely (off-camera flash) and adds light to an image where more…
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Wedding Gear
When it comes to shooting weddings what gear do you need? In the Nikon world the standard wedding photographer’s kit goes like this: That’s it. That’s all you need and the price of all this goodness is well north of $10,000 and that’s another reason why you can’t be charging $2,000 per wedding. That’s a…
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Wedding Photography
What do you need to be a wedding photographer? First you need to understand that wedding photography is a business first and an art form second. How so, you might ask? Look at it this way. Let’s pretend that you’re selling your wedding photography services for $2,000 a day. That’s a lot of money for…
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Wandering
There is a madness and a method to doing photo walks. Marion and I were taking an “artist’s date” (see the post about Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way) to visit the Royal Ontario Museum. We were walking quickly in the cold and blustery morning I chanced to look up to see this reflection. Whether or…
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More On Light Meters
When shooting film here’s another good reason to buy an external light meter. In your 50-year-old film camera the built-in light meter is likely not working anymore or if it is the meter itself may no longer be delivering a precise, accurate and predictable meter reading. Built-in light meters just aren’t reliable enough after all…
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Shaky Camera Syndrome
One of the biggest problems with buying an expensive modern technologically amazing digital camera is the automation. Automation in the hands of a new photographer can easily work against getting a good image as easily as it should work in getting the image right in the camera. What I see often on FaceBook are new…
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Blinded By The Light
Another new photographer asked on FaceBook for suggestions on how to improve her badly exposed image of some birds feeding in a field. The birds were about the size of big chickens and the background was an overexposed field of green. Of the 20 or so recommendations she got almost all of them were wrong:…
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Travel Cameras & Lenses
I was on one of the Olympus FaceBook sites yesterday where a woman* photographer (this is a relevant piece of information) was asking what lenses she should take on a vacation trip to the Far East? Seems a friend was willing to loan her a bunch of Olympus lenses including some PRO zooms and other…
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