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Stop Taking Boring Street Photography
Our friend Tatiana Hopper has done it again. This time in her YouTube video “Stop Taking Boring Street Photos” she talks about the street photography of Ray K. Metzker. Metzker is recognized as one of the great masters of American photography whose five decade career has gone unnoticed by so many of us. In the…
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10,000 Bad Photos
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier Bresson Have you shot your first 10,000 bad photos yet? Kazu Nakajima, a Japanese photographer working in New York City has spent years shooting photos in Central Park and he has a lot to say about shooting bad photos. “Do what you love. Keep going,”…
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Getting It Right In Camera
Do you want to create better images anywhere with any camera in any light? Don’t we all but too often I’m seeing images that I don’t like especially on social media photography sites. On FaceBook, where every question can be answered by recommending more gear, the level of basic photography is often appauling. So what…
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Get off Facebook and get out there !!!
If you’re going to be a serious photographer you’ve got to get off Facebook, Instagram, X and whatever else and actually pick up your camera and go out and shoot some images. And what better time than right now as we enter into the start of what looks like a long cold Canadian winter? So…
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Point & Shoot Street
Another day and another Walkie Talkie by Paule B this time with New York street photographer Sean Fryxell. Photo by Sean Fryxell Fryxell is an interesting guy to follow. He’s got a great Flickr site and he’s on Instagram. This Paulie B video is really educational when it comes to Fryxell describing his form of…
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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…
