Tag: camera
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Black & White Blues
This isn’t a great image. It was shot with a Nikkormat with a flaky meter (since fixed I hope). It’s not really composed well and there’s something wrong with the exposure (can’t really blame the meter as I was carrying an incident light meter in my bag). But it gets worse! The HP5 was over…
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Should I Ask?
When it comes to street photography a lot of new photographers ask whether or not they should get permission from their subjects before shooting. And the answer is, of course, it depends. Asking permission will automatically kill any spontaneity and naturalness to the image. A lot of the best street photographers don’t. I just got…
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What FB Gets Wrong
Photo by Marion West You see it everyday on FaceBook. Somebody, usually somebody new to photography, asks “what or what settings did you use to get that photo?” What they should have asked was “how did you see that photo!” Asking what settings or what camera tells you nothing about how the photographer saw the…
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How Do I Get Better?
I see this plea daily on FaceBook. Somebody with a new digital camera or a new-to-them old film camera posts a bunch of really bad images and asks for advice on how to improve their photography. How bad could these images possible be? Well a lot of them are really out of focus. Some of…
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It’s Not The Camera
Another day, another guy lost on FaceBook when it comes to his camera. This time the post reads like it comes from a long-time photographer who is new to Olympus OM-1 (and this post could have been about any new digital camera) and his complaint that he couldn’t get a decently sharp image of bike…
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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…
