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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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Long Exposure Techniques

BY June 27, 2019 Ask The Expert, Learning

“I am going to Disney World in a month and am trying to find out how I can get better photos from my vacation. What DSLR settings are the best for shooting fireworks? What are the best settings to use when wanting to photograph stationary objects and have people that are walking by blurred?”

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