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Is Your FB Group Friendly?
Photo of photographers on June 1st Toronto Photo Walks group I am a co-administer one FaceBook group (The Bronte Astronomer) and I am a member of a whole bunch more private and public FaceBook groups on a wide variety of subjects where I carefully publish some photos and offer comments and encouragement (especially on the…
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What Does It All Really Mean?
Photo by Marion West The last eight minutes of the most recent Walkie Talkie with Nazir Wayman a Philadelphia street photographer tops off an hour-long photo walk with Paulie B. We’ve been exchanging a lot of posts with local street photographers about what some see as the decline of street photography asn we’ve known it.…
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Yes Virginia
On my local photo walk page some of the photographers were lamenting that in their opinion street photography had grown stale and that nobody was shooting anything close to what Garry Winoguard was shooting several decades ago. I disagreed. Here’s a copy of my post: Sorry (actually I’m not…just trying to be polite) but this…
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Fix It In LR
On FaceBook a new photographer posted an image of a young woman and she asked for advice. As I’ve said before this is a bad thing to do as you open your artwork up to the confusing, conflicting and often just dead wrong comments from thousands of random strangers. And that’s what she got. The…
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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…
