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New Tools for Speedlight Photographers

Speedlight photographers haven’t had much to get excited about lately. Many thought the industry was passing them by. Thankfully, FRIO has just been waiting for the right opportunity! FRIO products are geared specifically to speedlight photographers – providing unique, inventive and very useful solutions for mounting your speedlights almost anywhere […]

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Nuts about Macro

In the next Issue of PHOTONews magazine (Fall/Winter 2021) our wildlife and nature expert, Tony Beck, explores the mysteries of “inner space” in a special feature that he calls “Nuts about Macro!” Hibiscus Reproductive Parts Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: Laowa 100mm F2.8 CA-Dreamer 2X Macro set to minimum focus distance […]

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Street People

This odyssey began on a hot summer afternoon in 1966 when as youthful and green Ottawa newspaper shooter I visited the Ottawa Mission for Men. Rudi Wolf, the chief photographer, suggested I give this a try on my day off, not for the newspaper. I was truly scared – fully […]

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A brilliant universal charger … with hidden secrets!

Photographers nowadays carry a small collection of batteries – for each camera system, action cameras, drones, speedlights, triggers and more. Unfortunately, those batteries also have their own chargers. If you’re travelling, you can easily fill one bag with all your chargers. Or you can risk not bringing a charger. If […]

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Photographing Domestic Animals vs Wildlife

Icelandic Horse – Iceland Domesticated animals are accustomed to having humans in their proximity. This makes them easily approached for photos. Less likely to run away, they often react to your presence with curiosity.   In the wild, only the strongest, and most adaptable animals survive. As humans evolved, our […]

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Sur le terrain: Tamron 150-600mm

PHOTONews a demandé à Pascal Ratthé, photographe de presse avec plus de 20 ans d’expérience dans le domaine du sport, des conférences de presse, des spectacles et autres grands événements médiatiques, d’essayer le zoom Tamron 150-600 mm pour ce reportage spécial Field Test. Pascal, qui est bien connu pour ses […]

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Portfolio – Michèle Grenier

Photographe de sport à temps plein basée dans la ville de Québec, Michèle Grenier se spécialise dans le portrait d’action intense et authentique. Nous lui avons demandé de décrire de quelle manière elle a réussi à développer son style distinctif et comment elle a tiré son épingle du jeu dans […]

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Pandemic Motor Sports

The pandemic may have severely curtailed my activities as a tennis and motorsports photographer but it did not diminish my desire and ability to produce creative images in that vein.   In some ways it might have been easier for me since I still work part time as a health provider […]

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A Pandemic Inspired Birding Challenge – How Photographing Wildlife Around the World Helped Me with Local Bird Identification. 

Red-throated Loon – Nunavut Small numbers of Red-throated Loons use the Ottawa River corridor to migrate from the Atlantic to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. Early one morning, I managed to spot one flying up river. This image of a breeding adult with a fish was taken in […]

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Get ready for the Summer Solar Eclipse

June 10, 2021 will bring an Annular Solar Eclipse to a large part of Canada. It will be visible throughout the Territories and most of Manitoba all the way to the Atlantic Ocean!! We cannot stress this next part enough: DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN, ESPECIALLY DURING A […]