Tag: art
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Join A Club
Join a club. This is the fastest way to learn how to use your camera or increase your camera skills. While not all clubs are the same and you should shop around as in most clubs you’ll be as welcome as the flowers in spring regardless of whether you’re brand new and don’t know a…
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Seeing
Before you can shoot anything you have to be able to see it. Sounds obvious doesn’t it but seeing is a lot harder than it sounds. It’s a gift if you can “see” things which would make for good photographic images. Very few people, including many amateur and professional photographers, can’t see all that well.…
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The Artist’s Way
Are you wondering if you really can be a better photographer? Do you think a newer camera or a better camera would help? Maybe you should take photography lessons from a pro? Would moving somewhere more photogenic be a good idea? How about if I said, even if you’re brand new to photography, you’re likely…
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Does Your Street Photography Need To Mean Something?
Have you watched endless You Tube videos of Face Book photography sites where the street photography seems absolutely vacuous, meaningless and well…boring? If so, maybe you aren’t seeing what the artist saw! Case in point is an excellent video on You Tube from “The Photographic Eye” site called The Problem with “Art” Photography Explained For…
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Join A Camera Club
One of the best things you can do to improve your photography is to join your local camera club. Now not all camera clubs are the same so you may want to take some time to travel around to camera clubs in your region and see what fits you. For example there are camera clubs…
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The Pinhole Camera
Photo by Fraser Shein The image above was shot with a Zero Image 6×9 pinhole camera on Ilford Delta 100-120 film by fellow member of The Toronto Film Shooters Fraser Shein. Now shooting with a pinhole camera isn’t as easy as shooting with a modern digital mirrorless camera but it shows what can be done…
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Constructive Criticism
The concept of “constructive criticism” has always bothered me especially when it’s applied to photography. CC as we will call it is all the rage on FaceBook photography pages as it is in some (maybe all) photography clubs. The basic concept is of course that someone other than yourself will be offering their thoughts, opinions…
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Taking It To The Streets
Street photography was historically the original subject of many of the first photographers who working with the most primitive of cameras and ancient wet-plate technologies to produce some of the most iconic street images of all time. So how do you become a street photographer? The simple answer is, of course, you take your camera…
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