While you’re kicking back and relaxing this Canada Day long weekend, we’ve got some tips for you to browse through to help you keep your photography inspired. Release your creativity with some of these proven-to-work ideas!
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It’s interesting to see the fascinating variety of ways Canadians are celebrating the historic anniversary of our country’s confederation this year. What better way to tell the story of Canada than through pictures?
With “Legacies 150”, the National Film Board (NFB) has put together a series of interactive photo and illustration essays in which Canadians from all walks of life share their thoughts on what it means to be Canadian. Here are a few essays we recommend to get you started.
Canada is a big country, you may have noticed. To capture the true breadth and majesty of it all, it helps to have a long lens and a point-of-view that’s out of this world.
For as long as people have been sending satellites above the atmosphere and travelling to space, we’ve been capturing amazing imagery of Canada from above. To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, we’ve compiled some of our favourite shots from space:
For the general photographer, people photography can be challenging. We like the ability to quickly make images. And, we hate that, so often, there is something badly missing in our images. Here are some technical tips, in no particular order, of things that you can do that will improve your people photography.
For those photographers who shoot JPEGs only and are not interested in a lot of post-processing work, a creative filter system is ideal for more creativity in-camera. Cokin’s filter system, for example, is an easy-to-use, flexible option that offers a variety of creative opportunities.
Depth of field is an old term. It can be described as being the range of distances in an image where the image comes into focus to the distance where the image goes out of focus. There are three criteria for depth of field: Lens focal length, Aperture / Lens Opening, and the distance between the camera and subject. We will examine them individually, but keep in mind that their effects are cumulative.
Spring is a great time of year to start thinking about teleconverters. Useful for bird, wildlife & sports photography, teleconverters are viable alternatives to spending thousands of dollars on a long lens. A teleconverter, paired with a decent zoom lens of reasonable speed, is a fine choice. This article dispels common myths about teleconverters, and explains just how useful they can be.
What started as a photographic journey encouraging viewers to consider the diversity and fragility of the natural world has evolved into an inspiring, cross-country Canadian adventure.
If you were to walk into a camera store of the future, what would you expect to see? Robots at every turn? While we may not quite be at that stage just yet, over the past year Henry’s has been actively working to create a bright modern, innovative in-store experience to welcome you, our customers. Welcome to the new Henry’s Oakville We want to make it as inviting as possible for those who are looking to make the trip out. We’re happy to introduce this “Store of the Future” concept […]
In this article, we are going to start with the very simple route to internet broadcasting, that is, leveraging an existing distribution service, but doing so from your computer without having to build a lot of infrastructure.