Tag: art
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Why is so much street photography just bad snaps?
I am struggling to understand why so much of what we see from street photographers especially on FaceBook, Instagram and YouTube is so very bad. Often it’s bland, vacuous and of no purpose whatsoever. And then you run into someone like Steven Tanno’s YouTube videos of shooting street photography in places like Kyoto, Budapest, Vienna,…
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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 Videos
The Oakville Camera Club is offering members an opportunity to learn a little bit about street photography in a few weeks. We’re thinking of starting at a local coffee shop for a little chat about street photography and what it is and what it isn’t and then we’re hitting the sidewalks of Oakville, Ontario. In…
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Walk On The Wild Side
The photographers at the Oakville Camera Club are planning a street photography workshop and walk coming up in March. So what is street photography? Despite what you might have heard it’s whatever you want it to be. Street photography is an opportunity to walk around your community carrying your camera. Maybe you want to document…
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You’re Better Than You Think
Roni Sidhu has a great video on YouTube called: “You Are A Better Photographer Than You Think“. Roni is both a photographer and a photography instructor and he’s obviously lived the photography life and what he has to say here in his video will be immensely helpful if you’re a newcomer to photography. On FaceBook…
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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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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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The Photographer In Your Face
I talked about The Oakville Camera Club’s Exploration # 37 “Strangers Up Close And Personal” in my last post but there’s more! This teaching event is all about shooting street photography but with the twist that the photographer must make some sort of personal connection with the subject. So how do you go about walking…
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How Far Is Too Far?
I normally don’t do this preferring to use my own images but for teaching purposes i’m using an Ansel Adam’s image that includes the printing instructions he sent to his printer to create the final print on the right. So how far is too far when it comes to image manipulation? When it comes to…
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Everyone An Expert?
Do you complain about the lyics in the latest Taylor Swift song? How about the work of Bob Dylan or Frank Sinatra ? Do you think Rembrandt got his painting right? How about Picasso? Did Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev meet your expectations? Unless you’re very different from most people you’re going to say well…
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