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How To Shoot A Protest
This Sunday anti-Israel rallies planned for Al-Quds Day have the potential to turn violent. These annual protests are expected to take place at major cities across the country. Previous protests have attracted some who glorify extremists and call for the death of Jews and chants of Death to Israel and Death to America are common.…
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Small Camera Street
Nothing is better than to chance upon a street festival or jazz outdoor event or Toronto Comicon, a three-day celebration of all things comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, gaming, or cosplay featuring hundreds of dressed up kids (and some adults). What’s even more fun is doing the shooting during an outing of The Toronto Photo Walk.…
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Composition
photo by Marion West Change the way you look at photography forever. Sounds like a big ask? It’s not as hard as it sounds and Photo Tom in this easy to understand video on composition and how important finding the right subject can be when it comes to your photography. Watch this and learn how…
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Shooting People & Dogs
Last post we talked about shooting street photography without shooting any people. This time let’s talk about shooting people while doing street photography. There are two ways of shooting people on the street. First is candids where the subject remains unaware that you’ve taken a photo. The joy of candids is you get unrehearsed real…
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No People Street Photography
On Saturday, March 29 I will be conducting a workshop on street photography in downtown Oakville. Anyone who is a member of the Oakville Camera Club can attend for free. We will start at a local coffee shop and I’ll offer my thoughts on what is street photography and how to do it whether you’re…
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More On Metering
Another Facebook question on metering prompted this reply from me: Metering is one of the most misunderstood functions of modern-day DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. You can do entire weekend workshops on metering so a quick answer on Facebook isn’t going to cover the ground. There are three main types of meters: reflective (as found in…
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Street Photography As A Defense Of Democracy
This is an interesting concept. Photographer Morten Albek suggests in this video that street photography can be viewed as a statement in support of deomocracy. I know when I was in Germany the concept of street photography was very very different than street photography in Canada. Albak also talks about this difference and street photographers…
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RTFM – V2
I got a response from a comment I made to a new photographer who asked a really basic question about how to find a menu item in his new camera. I said “read your manual” and my FaceBook friend asked if RTFM (read the furbished manual) was my answer to every question and he’s right…
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The Preset Problem
Everybody it seems is selling presets. There are presets specifically for use in Lightroom by the thousands and there are presets built into some raw editors like Exposure 7 and others. Presets, especially for beginners, can seem like a great idea. After all a preset is merely a small program that adjusts the sliders on…
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Street Gear
This is Jaylin Da’Shawn and he’s a street photographer in New York City. He was recently featured in a Paulie B Walkie Talkie interview and if you’re interested in street photography then Jaylin has a lot of good things to say to you. But we’re not here for Jaylin’s excellent wisdom on street photography. We’re…
