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Why Is Street Photography So Hard To Do Right?
It’s a warm day in February (Saturday, Feb. 10) and the Toronto Film Shooters are off on what’s called Jo-Anne’s Pastry and Chocolate Trail Through The City That’s Jo-Anne with the bag next to Marion just right of center. Note the wide variety of cameras from Leicas dating back to the 30s to twin-lens Rolleiflex…
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Photography- An Art Form
Photography is an art form and as an art form I have absolutely no right to comment or criticize your art. I can and often do express a personal preference but that’s different from a definitive statement like “your image sucks”….even if it does 🙂 . Best I can say is something like “not my…
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Tripods
Every serious photographer should have a tripod right? Well these days not so fast. A lot of new cameras have what’s called IBIS which is an acronym for in-body image stabilization. What this means is depending on your camera you maybe able to handhold at lower shutter speeds than ever before. When shooting landscapes in less…
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Constructive Criticism
The concept of “constructive criticism” has always bothered me especially when it’s applied to photography. CC as we will call it is all the rage on FaceBook photography pages as it is in some (maybe all) photography clubs. The basic concept is of course that someone other than yourself will be offering their thoughts, opinions…
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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…
