Whether you’re planning a trip to the sunny south or just a fun weekend adventure a little closer to home, spring is when many Canadians come out of hibernation and rediscover photography.

For Your Safety: All Used items are sanitized prior to each assessment. Returned or Used items will be sanitized and quarantined prior to being sold. Buying a used lens does not have to be a risky proposition.  Use these tips to get a great lens and save money at the same time! Why Buy Used? Let’s all face a couple of facts.  When we buy a brand-new lens, we get one that has been used minimally, with only a couple of mountings to validate that it is working as designed.  […]

March Break is here and now that the kids are home, what better opportunity than now to spend time and capture memories with them. Photos or Videos? YES! Some of us think of still photos as how we record memories but let’s not forget how incredibly easy it is to make amazing videos on the cameras that we use for our still images.  Now would be a great time to review how to do that.  Feel at a loss?  No problem!  Set the camera to P and the recording switch […]

How to Shoot Great ‘Getting Ready’ Wedding Shots In the first part of our Wonderful Weddings Series, we ran through all the gear you’d need for a successful wedding shoot. Now we’re ready to get into the actual shoot itself! In this article, we’re going to talk about the photographer’s role before the actual wedding ceremony. For guests, the wedding might start with the bride walking down the aisle, but for the bride, the groom and the wedding party — and the photographer — it starts much earlier than that! […]

Shooting great video with your interchangeable lens camera is easy if you know the simple tips to make it work. We will start with the basic settings and then look at some key accessories that will raise the quality and watchability of your project. Camera Settings Most all cameras have a video mode. This is different from just pressing the Record button because it gives you some simple controls that make for better video right away. Figure 1 : This image shows the toggle switch on a Nikon camera to […]

Good Video Needs Great Light Want to make professional looking videos?  Great lighting is a key element!  So, join me as I share the secrets and techniques of the Pros, that you can easily do in your own projects! Getting Started with Lighting Before we look into the type of lights, let’s learn a little bit about how light works.  Light is a complex thing that is both a particle and a wave from the view of physics.  Simply, this means that light moves in a straight line unless otherwise […]