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Light Modifiers
Featured / Tutorials

Light Modifiers – Shape Matters

What Shape of Flash Modifier Do I Need? Most photographers, after they have added a couple of lenses, will invest in a Flash – also known as a Speedlight for their camera. There are many advantages to adding a Flash to your camera bag. This series of articles will help […]

Lead deBok - A Lovely Sensitivity
Featured

A Lovely Sensitivity

Two and a half years ago, Leah den Bok was about to take an early retirement from photography. She was only twelve and a half years old. “I don’t think my pictures are any good!”, she dejectedly exclaimed to her dad one day. Joel Sartore, the world famous National Geographic […]

Jetmaster Photo Panel
News

JetMaster Photo Panels

Looking for a unique way to display your photographs, but tired of traditional wood or metal frames?  JetMaster Photo Panels are for you! Photo Panels are an innovative method of mounting your photos directly on to a 1” thick block complete with a stylish woodgrain edge in black.  The panel’s […]

Lenore Burton - Misty Beach
News

BMFA Juried Photo Show 2015

The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts invites photographers to participate in the 23rd Annual Juried Photography Show at the Arts Centre, located at 163 Hurontario St., Collingwood, ON by submitting photographs online starting in mid-July. Categories: Altered Reality – significantly and noticeably modified with post processing The Natural World […]

SilverFast’s
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SilverFast’s new printer calibration for perfect printing results

Kiel, Germany. 05/28/15 – LaserSoft Imaging’s newly developed printer calibration now offers an exclusive tool which guarantees colour precision and printing quality. The flexible settings also allow the optimization of all previously generated ICC compliant profiles. The printer calibration uses the existing scanner as a measuring device, eliminating the need […]

Vancouver 0425 BC
Events / Photo Challenge

PHOTONews Challenge – Summer 2015 "On Vacation"

The PHOTONews Summer 2015 Challenge theme is “On Vacation”. This PHOTONews Challenge is open to all Canadian photographers. Your assignment: to capture an image that evokes the vacation mindset. This may be a still-life shot of a vacation destination, a photo of friends and family enjoying the vacation lifestyle, a […]

The Tamron Trinity
Reviews

The Tamron Trinity

Boldly Going Where No Company has gone before… It always gives me pause when I stop to consider the fact that Tamron introduced its 24-70mm F/2.8 VC lens in February of 2012 and that no company has managed to produce a direct competitor yet.  It was the first of its […]

Joel Robison
Featured / Springboard

A Photographer's Journey

My name is Joel Robison and I’m a 30 year old Canadian conceptual portraiture photographer from Cranbrook, British Columbia. Looking back into my photography journey, it appears that I kind of fell into it by accident. Growing up as a kid in a hockey-driven, mountain town. Cranbrook was an interesting […]

Capture Oakville 2015
News / Photo Challenge

Capture Oakville 2015 Launches with a $1000 Grand Prize

By Bill Smith Capture Oakville Photography Competition returns with all new categories and a $1000 cash grand prize. This year’s categories includes Capture Oakville, to be shot within the Town of Oakville’s borders capturing the natural beauty, landscapes and seasonal ambience, The Human Character (Portrait), Textures and Impressions (the black […]

Shooting Sports Part 2
Tutorials

Shooting Sports – Part 2

If you think shooting indoors was challenging – read Shooting Sports Part 1 in PHOTONews Spring 2015 – wait until you go outside where you have absolutely no control over your shooting conditions at all.  If you are lucky, the temperature will be warm, the sun will be shining and […]