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Printing Made Simple
We are printing a lot of our photo trips and vacation images shot this year by both of us. Printing is a natural end to the total photographic process of framing, composing, exposing, shooting and finally displaying your image. Displaying your paper and ink prints on the wall is a very different and much more…
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Organizing A Photo Walk
If you haven’t gone on one of Toronto’s photo walks, now is the time to show up. Photo walks are volunteer run and open to all photographers from absolutely beginner to pros. There’s nothing to be concerned about. The organizers pre-plan their walks that normally start around 9am at a Toronto coffee shop and around…
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Histograms
Did you know that looking at the back of your camera to view your images tells you almost nothing about whether or not your exposure was correct. The only real way is to view the histogram of the image. So what’s a histogram? It’s a graphical representation of the tonal values of your image. What…
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There Is No Such Thing As Bad Light
A lot of photo walks take place during the brightest part of the day from 10am to mid afternoon. There’s an old saying that mid-day light is bad light that yield really boring images. Is this true? Sunrise and Sunset can result in very lovely dramatic images but is this all there is to photography?…
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Photo Walk Editing
As much as I prefer to get it right in camera I have to admit there are shots that greatly benefit from a little editing in post. While it’s better to have shot in raw when it comes to editing, if all you’re doing is some basic cropping and maybe a slight change in exposure…
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Photo Walk Shot Setup
In our last post we reviewed how to setup your camera for the first time. Now it’s time to consider how to setup your shot when out on a photo walk. Photo walks either alone or in a group are first of all a lot of fun. Not only that but it’s a creative activity…
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Photo Walk Camera Setup
On Saturday the Toronto Photo Walk had about 30 photographers set off from the Evergreen Brickworks for a two-hour walk up to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery ending at a pub on Eglinton Ave. On any of these photowalks there are photographers with years and years of experience and photographers who are using a digital camera…
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Street Photography
There are a lot of photo walks in the Toronto area. Basically it’s a twice-a-month walk around Toronto neighbourhoods with 20 to 30 of your newest photography friends with camera in hand. Check the groups out on Facebook at The Toronto Photo Walk and The Toronto Film Shooters. I’ve been out with both groups and…
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Art Work by Sally Mann
Sally Mann has written another book about photography and being an artist and being creative. Once called “America’s Best Photographer” Time Magazine (2001) the same magazine where some of my photos of a horrific early-days high-school shooting had been published a quarter century earlier, Sally Mann was and continues to be one of the great…
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Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Photos Online
Have you noticed yet that social media such as Facebook or Instagram or Whatsapp and other sites are basically just echo chambers when it comes to displaying your photography? Have a look around and see if you agree that a lot of really crappy photography gets lots of thumbs up and over-the-top positive comments day…
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