• Bokeh

    Bokeh

    Photographers go crazy for some good bokeh. Bokeh here and bokeh there, bokeh everywhere. There can be any real photography without a bit of OOF (“out-of-focus”) goodness. Prime lenses must be fast, and the background creamy. Everyone does it, and it’s the reason that full frame cameras are all the rage right now. But where…

  • Canada’s Ducks Bring Home the Bronze!

    Canada ranked second in the team combo event on Sunday and won the overall bronze medal at the 2011 Duck World Trophy Synchronized Feeding Competition. In the overall standings, based on four performances over the last three days, Spain took the gold with 386.655 points, China was second at 384.099 and Canada dislodged Russia for…

  • How to deal with Rejection

    ~ An Artist’s Dilemma ~ So you have finished your project. It is a true work of art. Classy. Remarkable. Punchy. You completely adhered to the guidelines given to you, and fulfilled every strange request as well as you possibly could without making the whole project slip into the realms of the ridiculous. Done. Mark…

  • A 72 Day Marriage

    A 72 Day Marriage

    So this famous woman gets married with a huge, expensive party and then 72 days later she files for divorce. I suppose she has her reasons, whatever they may be. At least some people got to work for a few days, photographers, bakers, caterers, make-up artists, florists… it’s really none of my business why she…

  • Do You Suffer From Tripod Allergy?

    When the thought of carrying a tripod around with you gives you hives, and you feel like choking when looking at prices of carbon fibre models online, then you may suffer from a disease called tripod allergy. Tripod allergy is a sickness that affects millions of photographers worldwide. Symptoms include mostly blurry pictures and frozen…

  • Do you cull?

    Do you cull?

    When learning the English language a few years ago, the verb “to cull” wasn’t really part of my vocabulary. When I first saw the word, it could have been anything… maybe some fun activity to do with your friends after work, “Hey guys, are you up for some culling later?” or maybe even something more steamy.. “Oh,…