Category Archives: Combination of sensors

Shallow Depth-of-Field

Shallow depth-of-field can be an important technique used to achieve good subject separation in a wide range of photographic genres. Wedding, portrait, nature and macro photography are some of the common areas where shallow depth-of-field is often desired from a creative standpoint.

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Dealing With Noise

Dealing with noise is one of those inevitable things that almost all photographers face to some degree with their work. Folks who primarily shoot indoors under controlled lights in a studio can create as much light as they need for the subjects being photographed. So, they are less prone to worry about noise in their images.

Those of us who shoot in less controlled environments, like dark indoor settings or outdoors, may have to deal with noise on a fairly regular basis.

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New Zealand 20 Years Later

This article, New Zealand 20 Years Later, looks back over the past two decades, and our various trips to this wonderful country. My wife and I just returned from an extended photography tour of New Zealand, spending 4 weeks on the ground. We have been very fortunate to have been able to travel to New Zealand six times over the past twenty years.

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Photographing Swallows In-Flight

Photographing swallows in-flight has been one of my favourite pastimes for a number of years now, but one that has come with a lot of challenges. Swallows can be swift and erratic flyers which can represent an exercise in frustration when starting on this journey. This article shares a number of photographs of swallows in-flight and discusses my journey with this subject matter over the past number of years.

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Upcoming Fall 2024 Presentations

We have a number of upcoming fall 2024 presentations that will be held by various organizations in the Niagara Peninsula area. While the overriding theme (Finding Visual Expression) will be the same for each of these three presentations, the content of each has been tailored to the specific needs of each organization.

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Exposure Triangle Pyramid

This article discusses adding a fourth dimension to create an exposure triangle pyramid to help us maximize our camera settings, and related photographic performance.

As photographers we commonly consider three ‘exposure triangle’ factors (aperture, shutter speed, ISO) when deciding on camera settings. There is a fourth factor that is sometimes overlooked which can also impact exposure… lens focal length.

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