No more bright colours of summer

It seems true. Once Eastman Kodak runs out of its current stock of Kodachrome, the famed brand of iconic images there will be no more.
The transparency film was the daring of magazine photographers for decades will likely be no more sometime in 2009 (that’s the expiry date stamped on the last batch of Kodachrome [...]

Canon colour accent mode

While I teach all the cameras for Henry’s School of Imaging I must admit I am a little better on the Nikons than the Canons. This is especially true with the point-and-shoots which I don’t normally use myself.
Anyway I got a question last weekend from a student I couldn’t answer. he asked me what was [...]

What’s VGA?

Well another one of my students at Henry’s School of Imaging got me on this question. I knew that it’s the lowest resolution that some cameras will use but I didn’t know what the letters stood for. Here’s the link to the wikipedia answer on vga  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA or video graphics array.

Sharpness Revisited

The easiest way to get sharper photos is to use a tripod. That will eliminate camera shake. And, don’t forget that if you’re using a camera that has a vibration reduction feature or a lens with this feature, turn it off when you’re using the camera on any steadying device. If the camera is on [...]

More On Sharpness

How do the pros get such sharp photos? It’s more than just shooting at a high enough shutter speed to avoid camera shake. Every lens, ever made, at any price will take sharper pictures at some aperture settings than others. So how do you know where your lens shoots at its sharpest? Generally speaking, your [...]

Shaking All Over

Perhaps the number one issue that newcomers run into with their new digital single-lense reflex cameras is camera shake. Camrea shake shows up as images which are blurry. They’re not out of focus but appear soft especially when viewed at any magnification whether on the camera viewing screen or on a computer monitor.
The reason [...]

Ethics Revisited

You can tell when I get a bug up my nose. This time it’s that ethics in photography issue.
Let’s look at this way. Where is the ethics in digging a latreen?  You dig a latreen so that you have somewhere to poop. It’s that simple. There’s no ethics in this activity. I put it to [...]

The Ethics of Photography

I visited the Oakville Photography Club for the first time tonight and thoroughly enjoyed myself. The guest speaker was talking on digital photography and while we disagreed on a couple of small points in general I thought he did a really good job. I even learned a few new things. Most of the folks seemed [...]