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Can My Camera Shoot Landscapes?
This was an actual question on a FaceBook photo site I was on this morning. And, of course, the answer is any camera (and any lens for that matter) can be used to shoot landscapes. In experienced hands you can get a landscape out of a pinhole camera. So it’s not the camera but the…
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Medium Format Shooting
Photo by Vivian Maier When it comes to street photography one of the great challenges is to shoot medium format. Essentially medium format is any camera that shoots film or a digital image that’s larger than 35 mm and less than 4″ X 5″ or certainly 8 X 10″. So what’s so desirable about medium…
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Join A Club
Join a club. This is the fastest way to learn how to use your camera or increase your camera skills. While not all clubs are the same and you should shop around as in most clubs you’ll be as welcome as the flowers in spring regardless of whether you’re brand new and don’t know a…
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Streaking At Night
The Oakville Camera Club held an on-the-street and in-the-cold member workshop on time exposures and double image photography Monday night (March 18). I’m guessing we had 12 or so photographers who turned out despite the very chilly temperatures to learn more about how to do double and time exposures. First thing you need is a…
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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: 12-24mm f/2.8 24-70mm f/2.8 70-200m f/2.8 105mm f/2.5 macro 35mm f/1.8 50mm f/1.4 85mm f/1.8 two pro camera bodies one or two off-camera Nikon remote controlled flashes Repeat if needed for 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…
