Henry’s Show a BIG hit

I’m back. Well really I wasn’t far away but it was a full-time job. I’m talking about teaching at the Henry’s Digital Photographic, Video and Imaging show which took place last weekend at the International Centre.

The show ran non-stop for three days of free workshops and tons and tons of new gear. All the [...]

NIK review

I’ve been meaning to do a comprehensive review of the NIK Software that I’ve been using for a couple of months now but to be honest, I’ve been having way too much fun using it to take the time to write the review. So here’s a link to a great review by the guy who [...]

Back from Dayton

I took my annual leave of my senses and went on a four-day trip to Dayton Ohio to attend the Dayton Ham Radio Convention in Dayton Ohio. Here’s a link to some images from Dayton: www.ve3hg.wordpress.com

The Isle of Eigg

I’m teaching composition later today (1pm) at the Henry’s Camera store in Mississauga. Composition is about our ability to see. It has nothing to do with photography. Photography is about capturing an image. Composition is about the ability to see the image.
Here’s a fabulous short video (seven minutes) by Bruce Percy who runs Scottish Photography [...]

GARY FONG ROCKS

Gary Fong, former celebrity wedding photographer and now inventor of such things as the Gary Fong Lightsphere and lecturer spoke to a sold-out audience last night at Ryerson University. The event was part of Contact, the Toronto celebration of photography (My fellow Henry’s School of Imaging instructor and pro-photographer Michael Willems has an exhibition running [...]

Great time at Oakville Club

What a warm reception I got last night at the Oakville Camera Club. I did a workshop on basic flash that ended up with two speed lights into two umbrellas with a portable backdrop setup. We had lots of questions and lots of fun. Highly recommend the Oakville club to anyone who lives west of [...]

Flash and Portrait Workshop

I’m doing a workshop which starts with basic flash and ends with how to do portraits at home. The workshop takes place tonight (Wednesday, May 6) in Oakville, Ontario at the Oakville Public Library on Navy Street. It starts at 6:30pm and costs…wait for it…$5!!!!!
Yup this is regular non-member cost of admission to the Oakville [...]

Fantastic shots of Ospreys

This is a link to a slide show of awesome nature photography.
How was it done? First of all the photographer used a really long lens (If I had to guess I’d say at least a 400mm lens. Might have used a 300mm f/2.8 with a teleconvertor. Of course there’s always the 600mm f/4 but [...]

IV – Intravenous a “must see”

Oakville pro photographer and a senior instructor at Henry’s School of Imaging has his own one-man show at this year’s Contact photography festival taking place this month in Toronto.
Michael’s show “IV – Intravenous” is a show stopper. It’s graphic and tough to view but ultimately hopeful and successful. The show follows Michael as he [...]

Getting started with Lightroom 2

Some of the instructors and staff from Henry’s Cameras took a workshop on Lightroom 2. This workshop was in anticipation of Henry’s School of Imaging offering Lightroom 2 as one of our standard courses. If you’re not an expert in the digital darkroom, I’d recommend taking the LR2 course. It will save you hours of [...]