Tag: black-and-white
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The Zone System
After 60 years of shooting pro and amateur I am still not sure I am the guy you should ask about the Zone System as described by master photographer Ansel Adams. Invented by Adams 80 years ago the Zone System is used in black and white photography as a relative quick way of determine the…
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Develop Your Film
It’s easy to develop negatives from your film camera. Unlike digital camera older film cameras produce images that many photographic artists find very pleasing. One reason is film still has a greater dynamic range (the ability to record the varying shades of grey from pure white to absolute black) than most digital cameras. Setting your…
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Pushing Film
There’s a lot of confusion about how to “push” film. What people mean by that is how to make a slower film act like a faster film. For example back in my day hockey arenas especially in small towns weren’t very well lit. Even shooting black and white Tri-X at its recommend ASA 400 wouldn’t…
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Projects
Who is that with Marion? Why it’s Glenn Gould the world-famous Canadian pianist. They’re sharing a bench outside of the CBC Building on Front Street in Toronto. It’s the middle of January and yes it’s cold. This photo was taken during a photo walk with the Toronto Film Shooters group. And why is this basic…
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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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Film or Digital
Why has there been so much interest in black and white film photography when digital is so much easier to use and so much improved when it comes to quality of the images? The simple answer is dynamic range. So what’s dynamic range and why is it important? The simple answer actually lies in our…
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