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Best Lenses For Bird Photography: A Complete Guide

BY August 30, 2024 Ask The Expert

Bird photography is one of the most rewarding yet challenging genres of photography. Capturing these fast-moving, distant subjects in their natural habitats requires not only skill but also the right equipment. The lens you choose plays a crucial role in determining the quality of your bird photos. In this guide, we’ll explore the best lenses for bird photography, focusing on different lens types, and highlighting top options from Sigma, Canon, Sony, and Nikon. We’ll also discuss some add-ons that can help you get even closer to your feathered subjects. Telephoto […]

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Sony Alpha Sports Kit for Live Action Photography

BY July 24, 2024 Action Photography, Ask The Expert, Community, Featured Artist Spotlight, Gear, Lenses, New Gear, Quick Tips, Sports

With the Olympics on the horizon and summer sports in full swing across Canada, we wanted to revisit some valuable tips and gear recommendations for Sports Photography from Sony Alpha Universe Photographer David Horn. We hope you take inspiration from this and learn some great tricks to improve your live action sports photography skills! Dive into this inspiring blog from the Sony Alpha Universe: What’s In my Bag: A Sony Alpha Sports Kit for Premier League Action David Horn (@davehorn247) has been photographing professional sports since 2012. “I’m co-owner of […]

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Sony Influencer Raph Nogal: Capturing Wedding Portraits with the Sony Alpha 1 – Gear, Tips, and Techniques

BY July 5, 2024 Ask The Expert

Every wedding photographer has their favourite parts of the wedding day and mine is definitely the bridal portraits. This is a time away from the chaos and a time to have some fun and get creative. As a professional photographer of 15 years, I definitely rely on my gear and I need it to be there for me, especially on a “high-stress”, “no going back”, “once in a lifetime” job like a wedding.  My go-to camera is the Sony Alpha 1 and I love it for many reasons, but specifically […]

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Bad Weather Game Plan: Photography Tips, Tricks, and Recommended Gear

BY July 3, 2024 Ask The Expert

Photography isn’t always about sunny skies and perfect conditions. Bad weather can offer unique opportunities to capture stunning, mood-filled images. Whether it’s the dramatic lighting of a thunderstorm or the soft, diffused light on a rainy day, knowing how to adapt your photography to bad weather can elevate your skills and produce breathtaking results. Here are some tips, tricks, and gear recommendations to help you make the most out of inclement weather photography. Lighting: Embrace Natural Light and Stabilize with a Tripod Bad weather often brings unique lighting conditions that […]

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Content Creation as a Side Hustle: Boost Your Income with a Side Gig

BY June 24, 2024 Ask The Expert, At Home

Tips, Tricks and gear you will need by Joe Donoghue from Algonquin Marketing Are you looking to bring home some extra income and are good at content creation? This side hustle is one example of many that will provide you with some extra money, create the bones of a potential full-time business, and challenge the content creator within you to be creative and have fun while supporting local businesses. I started my business as a side hustle. During COVID, I saw an opportunity to support small local businesses that needed […]

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Outdoor Long Exposures – Tips and Tricks

BY December 27, 2019 Articles, Ask The Expert

There’s magic in long exposures, particularly ones made outdoors that draw in scenes and overlay them with a sense of motion.  Making these images is not hard, so we will start with the necessary pieces of gear and then work through some techniques for success. Needed Gear The most critical piece of gear for long exposure work is a solid tripod.  This sounds simple, but it’s the main source of problems that I encounter with folks who complain about their long exposure work. The problem is one of stability.  Too […]

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Revisiting The Exposure Triangle

BY September 6, 2019 Ask The Expert, Learning

The Exposure Triangle is a continuous entity. A change to any value necessitates a change to at least one, perhaps both of the other elements. If we want a higher shutter speed, then either we have to open the aperture or increase the ISO or some combination of the two. When we shoot in full automatic, the camera’s CPU is doing all the work for us based on the meter reading. That’s great, right up until we choose to take a bit more creative control of the triangle.

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