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A Contract More Binding Than Rogers’
Yeah I’m talking about a wedding. Yesterday, my cousin chose to get married on a Sunday, on the beach with her now ex-boyfriend Dave. Imagine looking out onto a beautiful Lake Huron beach, devoid of fat, pasty-white tourists (E-coli scare) and only the blue waves cresting gently while boats slowly sailed across the horizon. It [...]
Model Mayhem
No seriously, that’s the site: www.modelmayhem.com And no, it’s Not Safe For Work (NSFW). It’s a Facebook for Fotographers except with only one millionth the functionality. If Facebook ever introduces multiple ‘faces’ (for example a professional banking face, a friend face, a family face and a professional photographer face) I don’t see any reason for [...]
Double Exposure – Reality TV Just for Me
Ever since Survivor took America by storm, reality TV remains consistently on our TV sets. Sure there were attempts before (notably Cops) but putting beautiful dumb people together vying for $1 mil was a recipe for success… which was repeated over and over and over. Big Brother, The Bachelor/ette, and Who Wants to Marry a [...]
You Ruined the Wedding, You Ruiner!
Last summer I was a volunteer photographer at Scotiabank’s Wheelchair Challenge. There were a few other photographers there and for the most of the day, we each busied ourselves trying to capture interesting things that happened during the event. We did talk to each other before the event got started, something photographers do to gauge [...]
Google Picassa Issues with RAW
It should be noted that Google Picassa is quite upfront about its method to convert RAW files here. The problem is, whenever it encounters a RAW file, it automatically converts it to JPG using its own optimal settings. Unfortunately, your camera will almost always do a better job converting to JPG then the automatic JPG [...]
Photoshopping in Picasa
Photoshop is $700. Picasa is free. You definitely get your moneys worth – but for most of us Picasa is “good enough”. Welcome to my primer on how I can use Picasa in a pinch to clean up portraits at my local camera club shoots. This is Picasa: Example This is some photographer during a [...]
Lightning Flashes
Last night at the Meadowvale Photography Club, we opened our collective new purchase – a lighting set consisting of two powerful flashes, two not so strong stands to hold them up plus some odds and ends to make them work. Almost immediately it became apparent one flash wasn’t working. Carefully going through the manual (not [...]
Accessory 101
No, this isn’t about clothes or fashion. I’m talking about the nifty Asus netbook that I’m using. Pretty much every digital camera has an LCD screen on the back to show the photo you took. The BIG screens these days are about 3”x3”. They’re limited by the camera size, expense and weight but the difference [...]
NewsU.org – Learning for Free
To improve aspects of my photography, I’ve been checking out some of the free courses from NewsU for photojournalism courses to analyse what makes a good photograph. It has been educational – I recognize some of the contest winners (well their photos anyway – Obama running up the stairs for instance) and some photos are [...]
DPS Advice
I just read this off of Digital Photography School – http://digital-photography-school.com/do-you-have-too-much-camera-gear 1. Keep a list of what you use and don’t use during a photo shoot. At the Bovaird photoshoot I used (plus my 50mm and 18-55mm lenses): a) Reflector + tripod to hold reflector b) my 55-200mm VR lens c) SB-400 flash backed off [...]
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