On June 14-15th, B3K Digital, Broncolor and Phase One teamed up to give photographers some hands on training with the IQ-series digital backs and the entire Broncolor lighting lineup. Two Canadian photographers, Dan Lim and Steve Richard, gave live demonstrations with the gear provided, giving some insight into their creative […]
I was asked to take the Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 VC lens out for a test drive and offer up my impressions of this versatile zoom lens and what better place to try it out but at the Ottawa Riverkeepers’ cleanup of Brewery Creek which is a beautiful and historic waterway […]
Photographer David Hou takes us through his process shooting some fast-paced dance photography in the studio with model and dancer Alayna. Find out why fast durations are essential to catching the action and how David used the Photoflex Triton to achieve the results.
In Your Backyard is a new feature for PHOTONews. We are looking to highlight some incredible locations for photography within a few hours of driving from home. Killarney, ON View Larger Map Photographic inspiration is unlimited on Georgian Bay. With wide-open expanses of water, endless shoreline and countless islands, sunrises […]
Trevor Sherwin goes on a lightweight shoot in the Don Valley with Dana. Watch as Trevor goes through 3 simple lighting setups with hot shoe flashes and the fold-flat and affordable Lumiquest modifiers including the Lumiquest LTp and SBIII. Canon 5D Mark II – 70-200mm f4L – 1/100 @ f/4.0 […]
Focus stacking? Never heard of it? It’s certainly a tool every photographer should have in their arsenal when looking to bring everything into focus. In a perfect world, we’d all have view cameras with bellows, tilt and shift abilities, and maximum depth of field. However, lugging those dusty old 4×5 […]
I love making images. I have a passion for the medium of photography that began in the mid 1970s, just as I was graduating from university. For the next twenty years, while I worked in the biological sciences, I spent the bulk of my free time learning and practicing the […]
We had the chance to take the latest Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VC for a test drive after work yesterday on our Canon 5D Mark II around the Toronto Harbour and Coronation Park. This offering from Tamron is the world’s first mid-range F2.8 zoom lens with a vibration compensation (VC) element […]
Apparently it is Worldwide Pinhole Day on April 29th, 2012. Be sure to check out http://www.pinholeday.org/ for more info. Never heard of Pinhole’s? A pinhole camera is essentially the most manual camera you’ve ever used. One aperture, a manual shutter and no viewfinder. Focus need not apply. It’s just a […]
Lighting is a game of angles – angles of incidence, angles of reflectance – it’s a bank shot on a billiards table where light is the photographer’s cue ball. When it comes to portraits of the follicly challenged, this whole subject of angles can make for a particularly tricky shot; […]
