Sometimes the topic for the week is obvious but, as a guy, I am usually completely oblivious to something short of a fast moving hammer flying at my face. And even then it’s not a guarantee I’ll notice. I did realize this morning, however, that everyone’s favourite sexy occupation day (better known as Halloween) is…

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What a coincidence that AI was the topic here a couple of weeks ago. Honestly, fellow photogs, I thought we had maybe a bit more time before the revolution. However, here we are. A paradigm shift for professional photographers has arrived and it’s called Photowand.ai. It’s what in industry parlance would be referred to as…

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So here we are again at that point in the year. The time where my posts get shorter than the days. Joking. Sort of. But, you know, the part where you think, “what do you mean Thanksgiving is only two weeks away?!”. For a photographer, it’s “man, I gotta get out there and shoot before…

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With AI entering our realities at breakneck speed, the conversations I’ve been having recently usually end with “a machine can’t do what I can do”. Well, that got me to thinking. I believe we are about to embark on a seismic technological shift we haven’t seen since we flipped on all that steam powered machinery…

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Welcome back, after all the teasing from the last post, I can finally tell you. Scotland is brilliant and believe me, it’s much more than the Loch Ness monster, Braveheart and rain. I’m sure some of you are thinking you already knew that. Well, I had never been, so, good for you for going first.…

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Photographers exist in this strange state of dichotomy. It goes from being energized and near maniacal when shooting to absolute procrastination when attempting to complete the other half of the job – actually developing the images. I’ve been shooting a long time and I still don’t understand it. I just tell people it is “part…

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If you build it, they will come. This applies more to photographers than it does to those supernatural baseball players from “Field Of Dreams”. There is something about great architecture that gets us photo people grabbing our rigs and running out the door faster than you can say ”this round is on me”. As a…

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In the same way most pop songs are verse-chorus-verse, visual repetition is also a great skill to riff with when you’re “on tour” and want to create something simple but impactful for all your adoring fans.  We all thought we would never find a use for geometry in those tedious math classes but let me…

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Unless you’re a rum drinking, peg-legged pirate with a parrot and an eye patch, I’ve heard that the two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. As a photographer, you won’t be able to afford one so your zoom lens will probably be the…

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Buckle up, because today you are getting a short history lesson on black + white photography and there may or may not be a quiz later on. It will be open book though so don’t stress about it too much.  Anyway, let’s start by rewinding back to 1820 when the first permanent photograph was created…

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