Tag: film-photography
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The Artist’s Way
Are you wondering if you really can be a better photographer? Do you think a newer camera or a better camera would help? Maybe you should take photography lessons from a pro? Would moving somewhere more photogenic be a good idea? How about if I said, even if you’re brand new to photography, you’re likely…
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Develop Your Film
It’s easy to develop negatives from your film camera. Unlike digital camera older film cameras produce images that many photographic artists find very pleasing. One reason is film still has a greater dynamic range (the ability to record the varying shades of grey from pure white to absolute black) than most digital cameras. Setting your…
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Pushing Film
There’s a lot of confusion about how to “push” film. What people mean by that is how to make a slower film act like a faster film. For example back in my day hockey arenas especially in small towns weren’t very well lit. Even shooting black and white Tri-X at its recommend ASA 400 wouldn’t…
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The Pinhole Camera
Photo by Fraser Shein The image above was shot with a Zero Image 6×9 pinhole camera on Ilford Delta 100-120 film by fellow member of The Toronto Film Shooters Fraser Shein. Now shooting with a pinhole camera isn’t as easy as shooting with a modern digital mirrorless camera but it shows what can be done…
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RTFM!
Read The Furbished Manual is not a criticism but a gift. If you’re on any of the popular FaceBook photography pages especially those dedicated to specific cameras you will see the same basic questions coming up at least weekly if not even more frequent. What is happening is these simple questions are coming from new…
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Projects
Who is that with Marion? Why it’s Glenn Gould the world-famous Canadian pianist. They’re sharing a bench outside of the CBC Building on Front Street in Toronto. It’s the middle of January and yes it’s cold. This photo was taken during a photo walk with the Toronto Film Shooters group. And why is this basic…
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Street Scenes
Did you watch a few of the videos about street photography mentioned in the last post? What did you notice? When I watched a lot of them I noticed there appeared to be several distinct styles of street photography. One was more documentary than anything else. Images of buildings or statues and artwork showed the…
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The Light Meter
I have owned a Sekonic L-300 light meter for decades. I now have two more external light meters including a better Sekonic meter (L-358) and a (Lunasix 3). Plus every camera I currently own including two old film cameras (Nikkormat and FM2) and my Olympus OM-1 and OM-5 all have light meters built in. Why…
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Manual Mode – Finally
After paying way more than you thought possible for a new complex digital camera with all kinds of modes and controls and menu items why oh why would you want to shoot in manual mode? In the old days before digital cameras and even before automation came to 35 mm film cameras all cameras from…
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What’s A Camera?
I usually start teaching my photography classes with this question: What’s a camera? My answer is a camera is basically just a light-tight box. That’s it. Early cameras were just wooden boxes with a back mechanism that would hold a piece of film (often 4X5 inch or 8X10″) and at the other end a very…
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