Tag: photography
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Does Your Street Photography Need To Mean Something?
Have you watched endless You Tube videos of Face Book photography sites where the street photography seems absolutely vacuous, meaningless and well…boring? If so, maybe you aren’t seeing what the artist saw! Case in point is an excellent video on You Tube from “The Photographic Eye” site called The Problem with “Art” Photography Explained For…
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Does Size Matter?
When we are talking about sensors, does size matter? Do you really need or even want a full-size sensor or would a micro four-thirds sensor be a better fit? This image from Wikipedia shows the different size sensors that you can buy and a lot depends on your camera model. For example I shoot micro…
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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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Join A Camera Club
One of the best things you can do to improve your photography is to join your local camera club. Now not all camera clubs are the same so you may want to take some time to travel around to camera clubs in your region and see what fits you. For example there are camera clubs…
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Shoot The Kids
I’ll admit I don’t do kids very well. I used to when I was a young newspaper photographer but not so much anymore. But this shot from my local camera club’s recent photo competition will do for today’s post. We’re talking about shooting the kids and why that should be an essential part of your…
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How To Get Better Fast
Not a day goes by without someone asking on FaceBook about how to become a better photographer. The answer is simple: Shoot more and shoot more often. It isn’t about equipment. It isn’t about location. It even isn’t about experience (although that’s the direction we’re heading). Photography is an art form. You get better by…
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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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Why Is Street Photography So Hard To Do Right?
It’s a warm day in February (Saturday, Feb. 10) and the Toronto Film Shooters are off on what’s called Jo-Anne’s Pastry and Chocolate Trail Through The City That’s Jo-Anne with the bag next to Marion just right of center. Note the wide variety of cameras from Leicas dating back to the 30s to twin-lens Rolleiflex…
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Tripods
Every serious photographer should have a tripod right? Well these days not so fast. A lot of new cameras have what’s called IBIS which is an acronym for in-body image stabilization. What this means is depending on your camera you maybe able to handhold at lower shutter speeds than ever before. When shooting landscapes in less…
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