Last minute Holiday gift help!

Let’s start with the best thing about my holiday gift suggestion – which is that I’ll deliver it to your door! No fighting through stores, no answering the lame ‘hi, how are you?’ from every greeter (ok, that used to be a good idea, but now it isn’t). 

The rest of the info is in

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Editing Edification:

Most photos require editing to look their best.

By editing I don’t mean photoshopping women into Barbie dolls.

I do mean recovering the colour, tone, contrast and detail  that are already present in your photos.

Not to mention having loads of FUN with iPhone/iPad apps that quickly turn your snaps into art (and back, if

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Portrait backgrounds: Hitting the wall…

This tip will help you out whenever you want to take a portrait photo of kids, family members, friends – but there’s seemingly no natural place to have them pose. Maybe you’re stuck in the restaurant parking lot and you’ve just gathered before you go in – something like that.

If you are in this

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Want sharp focus? Use Live View to get up close and really, really personal . . .

This technique for achieving razor sharp focus in your digital SLR camera came to me by way of the very wonderful Algonquin Park photographer Andrew Collett.

I haven’t mentioned it before as it only applies to cameras with a Live View function that allows you to view your subjects ‘live’ on your LCD screen instead

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Photography lessons make a great gift!

And,surprise! I just happen to give them. I have a lovely Holiday Gift Certificate if I do say so myself which can be mailed or – if you live fairly close to me in Toronto – delivered. You can purchase as many or as few sessions as you like. Right now my Holiday Series

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90% of candid photography is . . .

Taken at a SF Giants spring training game – this is one of my all-time favourites.

Firstly because, well . . .  awwww.

Second because I have never been so well rewarded for having my camera ‘at the ready’.

As I sat watching the game – which was a riot of colour – a

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Introducing the Better Photo Series: 4 sessions for $279!

Welcome! If you have arrived here as a result of my ad in the Mooredale News – please click here to access the Better Photo Series Page! Sign up for the series and be on your way to better photography before the Toronto spring is over (if it ever arrives!)

Meanwhile here’s a colourful (no

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Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree…

This is my brother’s Christmas tree.

Beautiful isn’t it!

How do you go about taking a photo like this? We all know what Christmas trees look like, so how can we take a photo that’s a little more interesting and capture a little of that Christmas tree magic? Let’s go through the process…

First

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Guess who?

Originally uploaded by camerajazz

Okay – you can probably guess who – and where – since I think I have mentioned them in my own comment.

But can you guess what’s hiding under the giant hat?

Knowing this person as well as I do – I’d say it was probably swiss chocolate…

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Stumped for a gift?

How’s the Holiday shopping going? Knocked everyone off your list?

No?

Just letting you know then, that I do have a very fine gift card (with envelope) that you can purchase for my services.

And . . .I’m running a little ‘Holiday’ special of 4 photography lessons for $250 (includes HST). SLR’s,

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