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You Need Lessons!
I was a self-taught photographer….and it showed. I started my career freelancing…a euphemism for being unemployed….back in the early 1970s. When I got my first full-time newspaper job I didn’t even know how or when to bounce a flash (a basic news photographer’s trick). So when I retired after nearly 60 years of professional shooting…
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Black & White Blues
This isn’t a great image. It was shot with a Nikkormat with a flaky meter (since fixed I hope). It’s not really composed well and there’s something wrong with the exposure (can’t really blame the meter as I was carrying an incident light meter in my bag). But it gets worse! The HP5 was over…
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Dundas West Fest
On Sunday, June 9/24 I loaded up the big bag and headed out to the Dundas West Fest in Toronto. It was a rainy day on and off so happy to have packed a rain jacket in the waterproof camera backpack. I shot both black and white and more images are here at StreetShooters.ca But…
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Hamilton Photo Walk
The Toronto Film Shooters took a walk on Saturday (June 8/24) through downtown Hamilton, Ontario. An industrial city west of Toronto times are rough in Hamilton and as we walked through downtown we were astonished to see a line up of somewhere between 500 and maybe 1,000 people. These folks were in a food and…
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Somedays Are Better
Had big plans for last weekend. On Saturday went out with the Toronto Film Shooters group in Hamilton, Ontario. I’d say we had 20 or so photographers and most of them came in by Ontario’s GO Train system from Toronto. I was shooting with my Nikkormat and I think I may have been overexposing my…
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So How Evil Is FB?
It’s worse than you might think! We’re talking specifically FaceBook photography sites. These are the free sites that individuals setup and then as they are the “administrators” they then rule hopefully with a benevolent hand. But as these self-appointed administrators set the rules, they also dictate the ethics and morales and general deportment of their…
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Is Your FB Group Friendly?
Photo of photographers on June 1st Toronto Photo Walks group I am a co-administer one FaceBook group (The Bronte Astronomer) and I am a member of a whole bunch more private and public FaceBook groups on a wide variety of subjects where I carefully publish some photos and offer comments and encouragement (especially on the…
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What Does It All Really Mean?
Photo by Marion West The last eight minutes of the most recent Walkie Talkie with Nazir Wayman a Philadelphia street photographer tops off an hour-long photo walk with Paulie B. We’ve been exchanging a lot of posts with local street photographers about what some see as the decline of street photography asn we’ve known it.…
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Yes Virginia
On my local photo walk page some of the photographers were lamenting that in their opinion street photography had grown stale and that nobody was shooting anything close to what Garry Winoguard was shooting several decades ago. I disagreed. Here’s a copy of my post: Sorry (actually I’m not…just trying to be polite) but this…
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Fix It In LR
On FaceBook a new photographer posted an image of a young woman and she asked for advice. As I’ve said before this is a bad thing to do as you open your artwork up to the confusing, conflicting and often just dead wrong comments from thousands of random strangers. And that’s what she got. The…
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