We’ve often been told “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” but in my case, that’s exactly what I want you to do. To publishers, one of the most important aspects of a book cover is how well it helps sell the book and book cover photography is usually the main ingredient. […]
THE FIRST RETROSPECTIVE DEDICATED TO THE MOST IMPORTANT CANADIAN PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND A PIONEER OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN CANADA OPENING AUTUMN 2016 AT THE McCORD MUSEUM Wm Notman & Son, Victoria Square, Montreal, about 1887, N-0000.1658.1.14 © McCord Museum Montreal, July 28, 2016 – As part of the celebrations […]
See these great brands at FUSION 2016 – Hahnemühle, Tamron, Kenko, Ilford, Cactus, B-Grip and GOframe. Finding Your Niche in the Age of Digital Imaging Saturday, November 5th, 2016 Fusion 2016 is being presented as part of PHOTOGraphie, PPOC-BC’s professional photography festival. The festival’s purpose is to inspire and share […]
The PHOTONews Canada Autumn 2016 Challenge theme is “O Canada, Eh!” A Comfortable Paddle through the Wetlands – John McCrae of Edmonton, Alberta captured this idyllic Canadian scene with a Pentax K5 and a 10-24mm zoom shooting at 10mm, f/9, 1/160 second, ISO 100. “It is a slow and comfortable canoe ride on the […]
In May 2016 a group of 8 friends set out on a classic Porsche road trip from San Francisco, all the way back home to Kitchener, Ontario. My role was to photograph and document the trip. Space was limited inside the classic cars, so I chose just to bring two […]
For the new Aurora Lite Bank ad, I had two exciting new products to use: Aurora Strip Bounce SB-50 and Firefly PAR. These two speedlight modifiers are both very different: Strip Bounce creates a narrow strip of light, similar to a strip softbox for strobe lights and Firefly PAR is […]
The RA Photo Club in Ottawa recently hosted the “Lighting Roadshow”, presented by our own Will Prentice. Will is Brand Specialist – Lighting for Amplis Foto, photographer at Captura Photography+Imaging, contributor to PHOTONews and host of PHOTONewsTV. Will brought along special guests, Jerry Nielsen, National Accounts Manager from Amplis and […]
We love camera clubs! As a supporter of camera and photography clubs across Canada, PHOTONews has a listing of clubs and their events from sea to sea to sea: https://www.photonews.ca/camera_clubs/ Is your club not listed? Is there an update to your club info? Is your club hosting an event that […]
Adding Impact to your images John Warren – September 11, 2016 Introduction The quality of the images coming out of our digital cameras these days is quite stunning compared to what we used to get from our cameras years ago. Even the compact all-in-one and cell phone cameras produce great results but, […]
REFILLABLE TANKS AND SUPER FAST SCANNING! By Peter K. Burian During Epson Canada’s annual product showcase in New York City, the company introduced several new items to the media. We were most impressed with two of these: a new high speed printer that can make literally thousands of colour prints with the included ink […]
