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JPG or RAW?
So today on FaceBook Deborah who is going on safari (lucky her) asked that since RAW images get render back as JPGs is there any reason to actually shoot RAW and then edit the images in an expensive editor like Lightroom or Photoshop? Here’s my answer: Deborah you’re going to get a lot of interesting…
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What Camera?
“I’m new and what camera do you recommend? I want to shoot vacation shots and birds.” You’ll see this plea for advice on FaceBook daily and on some of the bigger beginner sites somedays hundreds of people will offer their recommendation. One of the big problems with FaceBook as I’ve said before is a lot…
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Buying A Pentax 17?
Should you buy a new Pentax 17? It depends. The Pentax 17 is the first new film camera offered by the venerable Japanese camera manufacturer in a long, long time. And who said film is dead. LOL. But there are some things you should know before you consider this purchase. First thing is this is…
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Why Do My Photos Suck?
This is a common complaint and one I make myself somedays LOL. There are a lot of reasons but let’s keep this simple and do a pointform: RTFM is essential if you want to improve. You have to understand the tools of your craft and that means sitting down with your camera and using the…
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You Need Lessons!
I was a self-taught photographer….and it showed. I started my career freelancing…a euphemism for being unemployed….back in the early 1970s. When I got my first full-time newspaper job I didn’t even know how or when to bounce a flash (a basic news photographer’s trick). So when I retired after nearly 60 years of professional shooting…
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Black & White Blues
This isn’t a great image. It was shot with a Nikkormat with a flaky meter (since fixed I hope). It’s not really composed well and there’s something wrong with the exposure (can’t really blame the meter as I was carrying an incident light meter in my bag). But it gets worse! The HP5 was over…
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Dundas West Fest
On Sunday, June 9/24 I loaded up the big bag and headed out to the Dundas West Fest in Toronto. It was a rainy day on and off so happy to have packed a rain jacket in the waterproof camera backpack. I shot both black and white and more images are here at StreetShooters.ca But…
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Hamilton Photo Walk
The Toronto Film Shooters took a walk on Saturday (June 8/24) through downtown Hamilton, Ontario. An industrial city west of Toronto times are rough in Hamilton and as we walked through downtown we were astonished to see a line up of somewhere between 500 and maybe 1,000 people. These folks were in a food and…
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Somedays Are Better
Had big plans for last weekend. On Saturday went out with the Toronto Film Shooters group in Hamilton, Ontario. I’d say we had 20 or so photographers and most of them came in by Ontario’s GO Train system from Toronto. I was shooting with my Nikkormat and I think I may have been overexposing my…
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So How Evil Is FB?
It’s worse than you might think! We’re talking specifically FaceBook photography sites. These are the free sites that individuals setup and then as they are the “administrators” they then rule hopefully with a benevolent hand. But as these self-appointed administrators set the rules, they also dictate the ethics and morales and general deportment of their…
