Tag: cameras
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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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Point & Shoot Street
Another day and another Walkie Talkie by Paule B this time with New York street photographer Sean Fryxell. Photo by Sean Fryxell Fryxell is an interesting guy to follow. He’s got a great Flickr site and he’s on Instagram. This Paulie B video is really educational when it comes to Fryxell describing his form of…
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Photo Walk Shot Setup
In our last post we reviewed how to setup your camera for the first time. Now it’s time to consider how to setup your shot when out on a photo walk. Photo walks either alone or in a group are first of all a lot of fun. Not only that but it’s a creative activity…
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Photo Walk Camera Setup
On Saturday the Toronto Photo Walk had about 30 photographers set off from the Evergreen Brickworks for a two-hour walk up to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery ending at a pub on Eglinton Ave. On any of these photowalks there are photographers with years and years of experience and photographers who are using a digital camera…
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How To Shoot Sports
I’m starting a series of short posts on how to setup for various forms of photography. Remember photography isn’t about gear. Gear is about gear. Photography also isn’t about settings or recipes or pre-sets or even editing in a raw editor. Photography is about light and exposure and composition. Having said that we see daily…
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Small Camera Street
Nothing is better than to chance upon a street festival or jazz outdoor event or Toronto Comicon, a three-day celebration of all things comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, gaming, or cosplay featuring hundreds of dressed up kids (and some adults). What’s even more fun is doing the shooting during an outing of The Toronto Photo Walk.…
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RTFM – V2
I got a response from a comment I made to a new photographer who asked a really basic question about how to find a menu item in his new camera. I said “read your manual” and my FaceBook friend asked if RTFM (read the furbished manual) was my answer to every question and he’s right…