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  • Get off Facebook and get out there !!!

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    If you’re going to be a serious photographer you’ve got to get off Facebook, Instagram, X and whatever else and actually pick up your camera and go out and shoot some images. And what better time than right now as we enter into the start of what looks like a long cold Canadian winter? So…

  • Photo Walk Camera Setup

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    On Saturday the Toronto Photo Walk had about 30 photographers set off from the Evergreen Brickworks for a two-hour walk up to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery ending at a pub on Eglinton Ave. On any of these photowalks there are photographers with years and years of experience and photographers who are using a digital camera…

  • Why Are Some Photographers Better Than The Rest Of Us?

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    The Toronto Camera Club in conjunction with camera retailer Henry’s Cameras are offering a series of workshops featuring some amazing Canadian photographers. If you’re a member of the Toronto Camera Club the 12 presentations are part of the membership but tickets are available to the general public and all the sessions will be accessible via…

  • How To Shoot Sports

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    I’m starting a series of short posts on how to setup for various forms of photography. Remember photography isn’t about gear. Gear is about gear. Photography also isn’t about settings or recipes or pre-sets or even editing in a raw editor. Photography is about light and exposure and composition. Having said that we see daily…

  • This Is How To Do Street Photography With People

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    I show my own images (and those of Marion West) just for fun (this is of mine from Carribana 2024 in Toronto) while I post on a variety of photography-related subjects on this site. And with a photo walk I’m leading coming up this weekend in Oakville, Ontario I thought we might look at how…

  • Why is so much street photography just bad snaps?

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    I am struggling to understand why so much of what we see from street photographers especially on FaceBook, Instagram and YouTube is so very bad. Often it’s bland, vacuous and of no purpose whatsoever. And then you run into someone like Steven Tanno’s YouTube videos of shooting street photography in places like Kyoto, Budapest, Vienna,…

  • 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…

  • Travel Gear

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    Different trips call for different amounts and even types of gear. Case in point was our almost month-long trip through Amsterdam, Germany and Austria. Along with our large two checked-in bags Marion and I were both hauling a carry-on bag for the flight plus two camera bags. In the camera bags we each had an…

  • Amsterdam

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    Thanks to the potential of an Air Canada pilots strike we moved our vacation start date back five days giving us four days in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is one of Europe’s great cities and one everybody should visit for three or four days. It’s a small city and clearly there are ten times more bicycles than…

  • Sports Photography

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    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…