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November 4, 2011 – 8:30 am | 8 Comments

Cana­di­ans like pets, and in res­i­den­tial neigh­bour­hoods it’s com­mon to see peo­ple walk­ing their dogs after an early diner, no mat­ter the weather.
How­ever, unlike French, Cana­di­ans are well-behaved and they pick up after their dogs—streets here are not dot­ted with dog poop.

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5 Last Photography Tips (X)

November 6, 2010 – 12:08 pm | 9 Comments

In this 10 Pho­tog­ra­phy Tips series, I tried my best to give you some insight on var­i­ous aspects of pho­tog­ra­phy. I wanted to close this series with five final tips for pho­tog­ra­phers. I hope you enjoyed it and learned something!

5 Things To Do With Your Pictures (IX)

October 30, 2010 – 11:35 am | 13 Comments

Are you one of these pho­tog­ra­phers who take hun­dreds of pic­tures, glance at them on the cam­era screen view, upload them to a com­puter and for­get them there?
Well, stop doing that or your cam­era will get really mad at you and never take good pic­tures again.

5 Places to Find Photography Inspiration (VIII)

October 23, 2010 – 11:09 am | 9 Comments

Some days, I pick up my cam­era and I sim­ply don’t know what to take a pic­ture of. Seri­ously, how many pic­tures of Par­lia­ment Hill can I take before being com­pletely sick of it? Some days, I sim­ply have zero inspi­ra­tion. For­tu­nately, I dis­cov­ered some great web­sites to develop and build on my pho­tog­ra­phy skills.

5 Photography Tips For Bloggers (VII)

October 16, 2010 – 11:10 am | 12 Comments

When I first started blog­ging 5 years ago, I was more of a writer than a pho­tog­ra­pher. Most of my posts were text-only and I didn’t even have a pro­file pic­ture.
And then came magazine-style blog themes, with thumb­nails pic­tures. They quickly became pop­u­lar and enabled a lot of blog­gers to add pic­tures eas­ily to their posts.

5 Basic Photo Editing Tricks (VI)

October 9, 2010 – 12:21 pm | 8 Comments

Alright, let’s be hon­est: yes, I edit all my pic­tures. Doesn’t mean I do much though. First, my edit­ing skills aren’t that devel­oped, sec­ond, I like my pic­tures to look nat­ural. Indeed, photo edit­ing is an art in itself and plenty of pho­tog­ra­phers spent hours devel­op­ing new tech­niques or fol­low­ing pro­cess­ing fads.

5 Ways To Ruin a Picture (V)

October 2, 2010 – 10:22 am | 14 Comments

When I got into pho­tog­ra­phy, very lit­tle made me happy. Basi­cally, as long as you could rec­og­nize what was por­trayed, I was fine. Blurry? Meh. You can kind of see people’s faces, right? Oh, and this tiny black spot in the fore­ground —yes, that’s the beau­ti­ful insect I was telling you about! Look at this build­ing… why would I straighten it? You can tilt your head, right?

5 Weather Photography Tips (IV)

September 25, 2010 – 9:05 am | 11 Comments

You heard me com­plain­ing about Canada’s extreme weather more than once, but to be hon­est, I enjoy it. First, you never get bored; sec­ond, it offers some great pho­tog­ra­phy oppor­tu­ni­ties. Stormy skies, snowy morn­ings and rainy days are a chance to get some great shots. Yes, stay­ing in is tempt­ing as well… but you can always have your hot choco­late when you get back home!

5 Concert Photography Tips (III)

September 18, 2010 – 12:00 pm | 8 Comments

A few years ago, con­cert pho­tog­ra­phy was pretty much off-limits for ama­teur photographer—unless you knew the band. Nowa­days, it seems that most venues gave up on ban­ning cam­eras.
The last few years, I was able to get in with my DSLR and a cou­ple of lenses. Suits me. It allowed me to exper­i­ment with con­cert photography.