Tag: camera
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Why So Expensive?
Newcomers often get dazzled by the amazing technology available for our shiny new digital cameras. When buying a new camera often the photographer’s first lens is the “kit” lens that came with the camera. These are relatively cheap slow zooms that actually change aperture as the move through their zoom range. This reduces construction costs…
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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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Streaking At Night
The Oakville Camera Club held an on-the-street and in-the-cold member workshop on time exposures and double image photography Monday night (March 18). I’m guessing we had 12 or so photographers who turned out despite the very chilly temperatures to learn more about how to do double and time exposures. First thing you need is a…
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16,000 steps
Saturday’s photo walk with the Toronto Photo Walk group was a great success. We met at a coffee shop at the south end of Bathurst Street just east of the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto and began making new friends right away. By the end of the walk (which ended at a beer pub!)…
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More Flash
Let’s start with your flash on your camera. Bright but harsh contrasty light might make for a great newspaper shot at a fight in a bar but it’s not what you’d want to use for a wedding or any indoor special event. The easiest way to modify the light is to bounce it. Most flash…
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Basic Flash
Understanding how and when to introduce a flash to your photography is the first step for many into professional level shooting. So what’s a flash? Basically a flash is an artificial light source that can be attached to your camera (direct flash) or used remotely (off-camera flash) and adds light to an image where more…
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Wedding Gear
When it comes to shooting weddings what gear do you need? In the Nikon world the standard wedding photographer’s kit goes like this: That’s it. That’s all you need and the price of all this goodness is well north of $10,000 and that’s another reason why you can’t be charging $2,000 per wedding. That’s a…
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More On Light Meters
When shooting film here’s another good reason to buy an external light meter. In your 50-year-old film camera the built-in light meter is likely not working anymore or if it is the meter itself may no longer be delivering a precise, accurate and predictable meter reading. Built-in light meters just aren’t reliable enough after all…
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Shaky Camera Syndrome
One of the biggest problems with buying an expensive modern technologically amazing digital camera is the automation. Automation in the hands of a new photographer can easily work against getting a good image as easily as it should work in getting the image right in the camera. What I see often on FaceBook are new…
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Blinded By The Light
Another new photographer asked on FaceBook for suggestions on how to improve her badly exposed image of some birds feeding in a field. The birds were about the size of big chickens and the background was an overexposed field of green. Of the 20 or so recommendations she got almost all of them were wrong:…
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