Tag: camera
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Bounce Flash & Modifiers – Part 2
This series of posts are my notes for a flash workshop I am teaching to the members of The Oakville Camera Club. One of the fastest and easiest ways to improve the look of any flash shot is to bounce the flash. Most flashes have the ability to swivel and bounce light in more directions…
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Let’s Talk Flash – Part 1
This series of posts are my notes for a flash workshop I am teaching to the members of The Oakville Camera Club. Why buy a flash? First of all flash units (also called speedlights) have dropped dramatically in price over the years. This Godox flash (in photo above) costs around $150 Cdn and will work…
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How To Add Emotion
The Oakville Camera Club mentoring session held today (Sat. Jan 24/26) on one of the coldest days of the year so far in Ontario was a warm and welcoming meeting of mentors helping other club members with their images. As one of the club mentors I am always grateful and honoured to be part of…
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Starting From Scratch
Yesterday our club The Oakville Camera Club held a shooting session in nearby Burlington, Ontario for all members to come and practice their shooting. We were fortunate to be blessed with lots of birds in the air and in the water and of the 15 or so members I’d say just under half were fairly…
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It’s Not The Gear
What do all of these photographers have in common? Well it’s not the gear. They all own and use very different makes and models of cameras. Some shoot film and some shoot digital. A few even use their cellphone cameras. So what do they have in common? For the most part these photographers are all…
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Five Ways To Improve Your Photography
In this new year have you set any New Year’s resolutions around your photography? Has your photography over time gotten a little predictable maybe even boring? Are you shooting the same images seemingly over and over again? Rick Bebbington has a short 11-minute YouTube video about five things you can do to improve your photography…
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Is Digital Ruining Your Photography?
My Olympus OM-1 can fire at enormously high frame rates while still allowing auto focus to work from frame to frame. Add a wide angle fast lens and with light allowing set the aperture to F/8 to F/11 and the shutter speed to !/500 to 1/1000 with the ISO on auto you are guaranteed to…
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What Did I Come Here For?
There are a lot of reviews of street photography on YouTube as we close out 2025. If you take the time to look at some of the “best of 2025” videos one thing becomes very very obvious. There is a lot of “bad” street photography out there. So what is so bad about it? For…
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Find A Bridge – Get A Hoodie
One of the challenges all amateur photographers have compared to commercial photographers is it’s up to you to find the photo. Where commercial photographers often get told what to shoot, amateurs are on their own. It’s up to us to load our cameras and pick a lens and then find or create an image. It’s…
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Get off Facebook and get out there !!!
If you’re going to be a serious photographer you’ve got to get off Facebook, Instagram, X and whatever else and actually pick up your camera and go out and shoot some images. And what better time than right now as we enter into the start of what looks like a long cold Canadian winter? So…
