Tag: travel
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Bad Photo Editing
Now this might come as a shock but I did not love every photo that was on display (and this includes some of the category winners) at this year’s Capture Oakville juried photography competition put on by the Oakville Camera Club. In fact I thought some of them were over edited to the detriment of…
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Raw or JPG?
Are you confused about the difference between raw format and JPGs? If so this short video by Canadian wildlife photographer Simon d’Entremont will provide a lot of answers. “IS RAW BETTER? You may be surprised! Basically one of the main issues between the two formats is with raw format you must edit your raw file…
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DXO PhotoLab 9 or Lightroom?
I was a long-time Lightroom (LR) user having taken weekend workshop courses and online tutorials. I appreciated its database function to ingest and store images on my external hard drives. But after I retired I didn’t need all the power and functions to be found in LR and I wasn’t thrilled with the costly subscription…
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Special Event Photography
Winter in Ontario is going to end. I promise. It may not happen this week but it’s going to happen sooner or later and when it does we’re going to enter into festival and special event season in Ontario. As a photographer now is the time to research out the events that interest you and…
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High Speed Sync (HSS) – Part 5
This series of posts are my notes for a flash workshop I am teaching to the members of The Oakville Camera Club. Understanding high speed sync (HSS) can really boost your photography techniques when it comes to shooting better images outdoors in bright sunlight using a flash or when attempting to freeze action at high…
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How To Add Emotion
The Oakville Camera Club mentoring session held today (Sat. Jan 24/26) on one of the coldest days of the year so far in Ontario was a warm and welcoming meeting of mentors helping other club members with their images. As one of the club mentors I am always grateful and honoured to be part of…
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Bird Photography For Beginner Photographers
Bird photography is one of the most difficult forms of photography to get right….but it can be done. First you don’t need a top-of-the-line camera and super long telephoto lens….but it helps. Having said that there’s lots of available birds you can shoot with a cellphone. Lots of waterfront parks in the Oakville – Burlington…
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Starting From Scratch
Yesterday our club The Oakville Camera Club held a shooting session in nearby Burlington, Ontario for all members to come and practice their shooting. We were fortunate to be blessed with lots of birds in the air and in the water and of the 15 or so members I’d say just under half were fairly…
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It’s Not The Gear
What do all of these photographers have in common? Well it’s not the gear. They all own and use very different makes and models of cameras. Some shoot film and some shoot digital. A few even use their cellphone cameras. So what do they have in common? For the most part these photographers are all…
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Get off Facebook and get out there !!!
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…
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