Tag: cameras
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The Camera
Your camera – even the camera in your cellphone – is basically just a light-tight box with more or less automation which may or may not be particularly helpful when It comes to shooting an image. What do I mean by that? It’s just this: In the hands of a competent photographer or photographic artist…
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How To Make $$$
First make certain you can deliver what you’re selling. Might consider a small investment in some courses or workshops with a professional instructor. I did this after I retired from 60 years of shooting pro and had a lot of fun learning how to shoot in different ways and how to edit my images. Made…
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Mindfulness
Daily on Facebook someone asks on one of a hundred forums whether lens “A” is a better choice for street photography than lens “B”. Facebook is nortorious for these sort of questions from new photographers. It’s all about the myth that better equipment will equal better photography and while equipment is important it’s much less…
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I’m New! Now What?
So you’re new to photography. Maybe you’ve got a new digital camera or an old film cameras or maybe a cellphone with a camera? (This group shot take a few weeks ago was from the 200-plus CineFilm Toronto photo walk.) Doesn’t matter what camera you have. What matters is like any tool you’ve got to…
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I Need More Equipment
I am sorry but this is too funny and we see it almost daily. Plus it’s a problem I’ve been seeing a lot of on FaceBook especially from people who are about to shoot their first wedding. It comes down to this….it’s not the camera. Now don’t get me wrong and let’s use Nikon equipment…
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What Settings?
New photographers continue ask on FaceBook for info from posters on which camera, what lens and what settings were used to create a published photo. The answer is that information is irrelevant to understanding the photo. I recommend to new photographers that they should take a few lessons in basic photography and then they can…
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What Camera?
“I’m new and what camera do you recommend? I want to shoot vacation shots and birds.” You’ll see this plea for advice on FaceBook daily and on some of the bigger beginner sites somedays hundreds of people will offer their recommendation. One of the big problems with FaceBook as I’ve said before is a lot…
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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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How To Fail
I did not have the heart to reply to the guy on FaceBook who was attending a motor sport event soon and wanted anyone who had used his camera (Olympus OM-1) to share some pics and some settings. This is the perfect storm that will lead to frustration and failure. There is no useful information…
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