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Amsterdam
Thanks to the potential of an Air Canada pilots strike we moved our vacation start date back five days giving us four days in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is one of Europe’s great cities and one everybody should visit for three or four days. It’s a small city and clearly there are ten times more bicycles than…
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We’re Back
Yes it’s been almost one month of travelling through Amsterdam, Germany and Austria shooting almost 7,500 images and drinking almost as much wonderful German beer. Over the next few weeks as I slowly grade, pick, edit and post images here and on our online shooting gallery at www.streetshooters.ca we’ll talk about travel photography and travel…
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Don’t Shoot Boring Photos
For Marion’s birthday I bought her David Gibson’s excellent book “The Street Photographer’s Manual”. (Thanks to Amazon it arrived overnight and at a slight discount from retail.) It’s not because Marion shoots boring photos. To the contrary Marion was born with the gift of being able to “see” a photo in front of her. As…
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How To Shoot Street Events
Events like parades, festivals and even street protests happen on our local streets all the time. For street photographers they offer opportunities for really creative images. For new photographers these sort of events can be quite intimidating but with a little preparation you shouldn’t be concerned if you take care to be non-threatening and understand…
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Walk The Walk
That’s Bill Smith (center). This image was taken last winter (check the touqe) during one of the monthly walks with the Toronto Film Shooters group. Bill is an interesting guy and one of Toronto’s better photographers and film photography advocates. If you haven’t started following him on social media it’s time to start. Here’s why.…
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Shooting the Park Bench Wino
FaceBook is crammed full of opinionated people who love to dump all of their projections and discomfort and hate with the world on street photographers who shoot what’s called “poverty porn”. A guy who calls himself Suitcase Joe is a LA street photographer who just might change your mind about shooting street people, the less…
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Shoot now, ask questions later
Who is this kid? Daniel Gutierrez is an L.A. street/landscape photographer who is someone you should know if you’re questioning your own photography skills. Daniel is the subject of another wonderful Paulie B “Walkie Talkie” video interview of new young photographers currently shooting amazing images. Daniel’s use of a basic digital camera to create beautifully…
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Shooting In The Real World
Why do we shoot street photography and what is it we do shoot? According to Reuben Radding in the You Tube video entitled “The musicality of Photography in NYC” we shoot because everything we shoot is going away. He has a lot to say about why we shoot street photography. As he says you’ll hear…
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I Need More Equipment
I am sorry but this is too funny and we see it almost daily. Plus it’s a problem I’ve been seeing a lot of on FaceBook especially from people who are about to shoot their first wedding. It comes down to this….it’s not the camera. Now don’t get me wrong and let’s use Nikon equipment…
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