Tag: photography
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Don’t Shoot Boring Photos
For Marion’s birthday I bought her David Gibson’s excellent book “The Street Photographer’s Manual”. (Thanks to Amazon it arrived overnight and at a slight discount from retail.) It’s not because Marion shoots boring photos. To the contrary Marion was born with the gift of being able to “see” a photo in front of her. As…
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How To Shoot Street Events
Events like parades, festivals and even street protests happen on our local streets all the time. For street photographers they offer opportunities for really creative images. For new photographers these sort of events can be quite intimidating but with a little preparation you shouldn’t be concerned if you take care to be non-threatening and understand…
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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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Film Speed – ASA
Newcomers to film photography often are confused by the different types of film and especially the different speeds of film. When it comes to speed which is indicated as ASA (ISO when we’re speaking of a digital sensor) the basic rule is the slower the film speed the better the quality of the image. So…
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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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Let’s Talk White Balance
So what’s white balance?] White Balance is the camera setting or the setting in your RAW editor that adjusts how colours appear in an image. When shooting auto in JPG format the white balance is locked into your image set by the camera itself. In other words if your image is too blue or too…
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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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Is It Art?
Another FaceBook inspired post. Today a young photographer was bemoaning his photography which he didn’t think compared to the photography of any of the great photographers of the past. A lot of well-meaning comments were directed towards his style of shooting and the equipment he might consider. Some suggested a better grounding in the “rules”…
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