Tag: photography
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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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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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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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Buying A Pentax 17?
Should you buy a new Pentax 17? It depends. The Pentax 17 is the first new film camera offered by the venerable Japanese camera manufacturer in a long, long time. And who said film is dead. LOL. But there are some things you should know before you consider this purchase. First thing is this is…
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Why Do My Photos Suck?
This is a common complaint and one I make myself somedays LOL. There are a lot of reasons but let’s keep this simple and do a pointform:
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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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Black & White Blues
This isn’t a great image. It was shot with a Nikkormat with a flaky meter (since fixed I hope). It’s not really composed well and there’s something wrong with the exposure (can’t really blame the meter as I was carrying an incident light meter in my bag). But it gets worse! The HP5 was over…
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So How Evil Is FB?
It’s worse than you might think! We’re talking specifically FaceBook photography sites. These are the free sites that individuals setup and then as they are the “administrators” they then rule hopefully with a benevolent hand. But as these self-appointed administrators set the rules, they also dictate the ethics and morales and general deportment of their…
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Yes Virginia
On my local photo walk page some of the photographers were lamenting that in their opinion street photography had grown stale and that nobody was shooting anything close to what Garry Winoguard was shooting several decades ago. I disagreed. Here’s a copy of my post: Sorry (actually I’m not…just trying to be polite) but this…
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