Save me the outrage

Most of the comments I’ve received around my posting “Show us the bloody bits” focus the writers’ unhappiness with my position on photos taken by a Washington Post photographer. The photos show the horror of a youngster having her clitoris removed in a back alley in Kurdish Iraq. The commentators seems more upset about the [...]

Fix your old photos

One of my students (who I hope reads this post) has a large number of photos that he needs to repair and scan into his digital darkroom. Thanks to one of the photographers who is on Twitter I can now suggest he checks ScanCafe.  Fixing tears and stains isn’t easy and scanning can be a [...]

Hot Shoe Diaries

To all my students looking to improve their small flash work…order Joe McNally’s The Hot Shoe Diaries right now! My copy just arrived (via Amazon.com and Canada Post) and while Joe uses Nikon flashes, the information is valuable to anyone interested in better flash work. I’ve got to get a cup of tea and read [...]

Show us the bloody bits

I’m outraged over the outrage swirling about the publishing of photos shot by Andrea Bruce of the Washington Post that show a Kurdish girl having parts of her clitoris cut off.
I’m a former award-winning news photographer and the outrage being voiced by Tewfic El-Sawy who writes The Travel Photographer and Roy Greenslade’s blog at The [...]

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Dead

I visited the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) a few years ago when on a business trip to Ottawa. Seems the center was closed and will now become a government space to do whatever it is the government does in Ottawa. I’m not impressed. The CMCP was a unique institution in Canada. It [...]

Travel photography

Stop what you’re doing and spend a few amazing moments with Julie Aucoin and her amazing travel photography. Here’s is someone with the eye of an artist and the skills of a master photographer combined with the ability to get to places we’ve only dreamed about. Julie’s thoughtful, stunning images are accompanied by music of [...]

Camera Clubs

I just got back from the meeting of the Oakville Camera Club. Tonight the members were offering critiques of other members’ works. I’ll tell you, there were some pretty nice images shown but if I see one more photo of a tree… Also, the projector had a purple cast but that’s part of the [...]

M4 Leica

I once owned an M4 Leica.
Mine was all in black. It was a rangefinder. I had a 28, 35, 50 and 90mm lenses. The camera had only a shutter dial, an aperture ring and changeable lenses. The film loaded from the bottom and was a pig to get right only because you had to [...]

Get Vincent Versace’s Capture NX2 Video

I thought I knew Capture NX2. AH! I knew nothing and I found that out this morning by watching Vincent Versace’s DVD set called “Unleashing the RAW Power of Capture NX2”. This is a very thorough DVD and I think most of my Nikon students will find it invaluable IF you’re into getting better images [...]

FSB on the Fuji Cameras

Here’s a new one on me. I was teaching basic photography to one of my students who had a high-end Fujifilm camera. Now I own two Fujifilm digital cameras and I love them but neither of mine had an FSB button. Turns out it’s a film simulation button. My cameras have this simulation in the [...]