Tag: nature
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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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Get off Facebook and get out there !!!
If you’re going to be a serious photographer you’ve got to get off Facebook, Instagram, X and whatever else and actually pick up your camera and go out and shoot some images. And what better time than right now as we enter into the start of what looks like a long cold Canadian winter? So…
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Why I Don’t Compete In Photo Contests And Why You Should Consider It
My good friend and fellow mentor at The Oakville Camera Club Deepak Patel has posted an excellent piece on whether or not you should consider entering your photographs in a juried competition. The Oakville club holds its annual gala and juried competition for club members called Capture Oakville and the images that get choosen for…
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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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More On Metering
Another Facebook question on metering prompted this reply from me: Metering is one of the most misunderstood functions of modern-day DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. You can do entire weekend workshops on metering so a quick answer on Facebook isn’t going to cover the ground. There are three main types of meters: reflective (as found in…
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More On Birds
First of all birds – especially Canada Geese and ducks in Oakville (Ontario) habour – disappear when the temperature hits -8 degrees C and no wind as it was today (Sat. Feb 8/25). But on Thursday morning there were thousands of birds both on the water and flying above the dozen or so bird photographers…
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Birding
Why is it that every newcomer to photography seems to end up on FaceBook asking for advice on what camera they should buy so they can shoot pictures of birds, do portraits and maybe a little street photography? My standard answer is once you’ve read the manual for your camera and taken a few lessons…
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JPG or RAW?
So today on FaceBook Deborah who is going on safari (lucky her) asked that since RAW images get render back as JPGs is there any reason to actually shoot RAW and then edit the images in an expensive editor like Lightroom or Photoshop? Here’s my answer: Deborah you’re going to get a lot of interesting…
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You Need Lessons!
I was a self-taught photographer….and it showed. I started my career freelancing…a euphemism for being unemployed….back in the early 1970s. When I got my first full-time newspaper job I didn’t even know how or when to bounce a flash (a basic news photographer’s trick). So when I retired after nearly 60 years of professional shooting…
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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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