Tag: nikon
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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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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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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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Sports Photography
I haven’t shot sports in decades so this photo will have to do. It’s one of 1,500 images shot for a local charity during one of their fundraisers. As with a lot of indoor action photography this was shot at a high ISO and a prime fast lens. Pretty sure this was shot with a…
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Fill Flash
This is not a great image but it will do. It’s a dark shot of the gathering of some of the members of the Oakville Camera Club at the end-of-the-seasonn pub night in a dark bar. When it comes to shooting in dark places or shooting in places where sunlight is going to overwhelm your…
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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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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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Wedding Gear
When it comes to shooting weddings what gear do you need? In the Nikon world the standard wedding photographer’s kit goes like this: That’s it. That’s all you need and the price of all this goodness is well north of $10,000 and that’s another reason why you can’t be charging $2,000 per wedding. That’s a…
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