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Printing Your Images
There is absolutely no financial justification for buying a dedicated photo printer. Inks for some of the better amateur printers can cost an eye-watering $800 to do a complete refresh. Photographic print papers come in a variety of sizes and textures and gloss (or non-gloss) and cost more than ordinary paper. A decent dedicated photo…
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RTFM!
Read The Furbished Manual is not a criticism but a gift. If you’re on any of the popular FaceBook photography pages especially those dedicated to specific cameras you will see the same basic questions coming up at least weekly if not even more frequent. What is happening is these simple questions are coming from new…
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Projects
Who is that with Marion? Why it’s Glenn Gould the world-famous Canadian pianist. They’re sharing a bench outside of the CBC Building on Front Street in Toronto. It’s the middle of January and yes it’s cold. This photo was taken during a photo walk with the Toronto Film Shooters group. And why is this basic…
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The Decisive Moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s book called “The Decisive Moment” has been called one of the most important photobooks of the twentieth century. The photos from the book show how decisions made by the photographer at an important moment within the constant flow of life (I lifted this explanation from Google) actually shape the final outcome. Capturing an…
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Street Scenes
Did you watch a few of the videos about street photography mentioned in the last post? What did you notice? When I watched a lot of them I noticed there appeared to be several distinct styles of street photography. One was more documentary than anything else. Images of buildings or statues and artwork showed the…
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Taking It To The Streets
Street photography was historically the original subject of many of the first photographers who working with the most primitive of cameras and ancient wet-plate technologies to produce some of the most iconic street images of all time. So how do you become a street photographer? The simple answer is, of course, you take your camera…
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Composition
Photo by Marion West Photo composition is how you the photographer arranges the elements of your image. So where to start? First with your camera in hand go out and shoot photos. Doesn’t matter if it’s digital or film. Doesn’t matter if it’s your smartphone or a $5000 top-of-the-line DSLR. Go out and shoot and…
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Do expensive camera work better than cheaper ones?
Photo by Marion West Yes….but! But do you need the latest and greatest technological wonder? Unless you’re a professional photographer and selling your images probably not. Sure it’s nice to have the newest camera but it’s been my experience teaching thousands of students over the years that very few (I’m tempted to say if any)…
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White Balance
White balance is simply the colour temperature at which white objects actually appear white in your digital photograph. The colour temperature of daylight is somewhere between 5000 to 6500 K. So how do you know if the white balance is off? Everyone has taken a photo at night indoors and the photo had a yellowish…
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The Light Meter
I have owned a Sekonic L-300 light meter for decades. I now have two more external light meters including a better Sekonic meter (L-358) and a (Lunasix 3). Plus every camera I currently own including two old film cameras (Nikkormat and FM2) and my Olympus OM-1 and OM-5 all have light meters built in. Why…
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