StreetShooters

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  • Street Videos

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    The Oakville Camera Club is offering members an opportunity to learn a little bit about street photography in a few weeks. We’re thinking of starting at a local coffee shop for a little chat about street photography and what it is and what it isn’t and then we’re hitting the sidewalks of Oakville, Ontario. In…

  • Walk On The Wild Side

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    The photographers at the Oakville Camera Club are planning a street photography workshop and walk coming up in March. So what is street photography? Despite what you might have heard it’s whatever you want it to be. Street photography is an opportunity to walk around your community carrying your camera. Maybe you want to document…

  • Zoom Lenses

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    This is from a Facebook query. There are two types of zoom lenses. One has a fixed or constant aperture and the other has a variable aperture. The fixed aperture zoom will remain at the aperture you set no matter where you set the zoom. The variable aperture zoom varys the aperture depending on where…

  • More On Birds

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    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…

  • Bird Settings

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    There are a couple of ways of setting up your camera to shoot birds in flight. This morning (Feb. 6/25) it was rainy and breezy and for whatever reason our Canada Geese were almost continuously flying overhead. We had about a dozen photographers from the Oakville Camera Club. So how do you set up your…

  • Birding

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    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…

  • The Bag

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    I’m at nine or maybe it’s 10 camera bags! Why so many and why you’re likely going to end up with at least that number if not more? Every camera, no matter how small or humble, deserves its own camera bag. And this is how it starts. Your first entry camera usually comes with a…

  • The Manual

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    One of the biggest issues with cellphone cameras is they work so well on automatic that there isn’t a manual to read. They are the most advanced point-and-shoot cameras on the planet and they do remarkably well. Even pros have used them to shoot weddings! People get used to thinking they don’t need a manual…

  • The Lens

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    While the camera is a light-tight box and for 99% of most ordinary amateur photographer even ancient manual film cameras can produce images of similar quality to the most modern of gear the same cannot be said for lenses. And while it’s true that in the hands of a photographic artist a pin-hole camera, that…

  • The Camera

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    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…