“What is shutter priority mode?” That’s a great question. (It’s one every new photographer asks.) Shooting in Shutter Priority mode is one of the easiest ways to take control, and start getting more creative with your photos. Once you start getting more creative, your love for photography will get even stronger! Shutter Priority is much like Aperture Priority, [...]
The blue hour after sunset is an awesome time to practice night photography! It actually only lasts from about 20 to 40 minutes (depending on weather conditions) but I guess “the blue hour” just sounds better. It’s a term used to refer to the time just before sunrise and just after sunset when the sky shows [...]
In this post, you’ll learn how to create a GoPro tide time lapse video. A few weeks ago, we happened upon low tide in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The small basin in front of Reservoir Park Waterfront Park was completely empty. It looked like a giant, empty mud puddle. We set up the GoPro and started shooting. [...]
Portraits: Making The Shot is a book from Digital Photography School and was written by Gina Milicia. The links in this post are affiliate links, which means we will receive a commission if you decide to buy a copy for yourself. We purchased this book and use it to improve our photography. This is a book about [...]
I bought my GoPro Hero4 Black back in June and it shipped with v2.0. In August a firmware update was released (v3.0) and I finally got around to updating the camera today. In this post, you’ll learn: How to update GoPro Hero4 firmware (3 ways) How to save it from a failed update Tips for updating [...]
In this post, I’ll share the specific settings I used to create a cloud time lapse video in Ecuador’s Andes mountains. This was shot from our apartment in Santa Isabel, Yunguilla Valley (located 90 minutes from the city of Cuenca). When I shot this, we were making plans to return to Canada. And we didn’t want [...]
Fall is such a beautiful time of year here in Atlantic Canada! The changing leaves steal the show for sure, but there is more to autumn in Nova Scotia. In the mornings the frost and dew turn the fields into sparkling masterpieces. The water turns red, yellow, gold and orange as it reflects the leaves. [...]
While visiting Kejimkujik on a day trip, we went for a canoe trip up the Mersey River. We saw three different turtle species: the painted, a snapper and a Blanding’s turtle. The Blanding’s Turtle is listed as endangered – with less than 250 adults in the province of Nova Scotia. We were pretty excited to see this [...]
Want to improve your photos in one easy step? For better photos you should crop close for impact. And make your subject fill the frame. In this post, I’ll share four examples of photos improved by close cropping. I’ll also share examples of bad cropping and help you avoid this. Crop And Pop! Cropping to make [...]
A few months ago my parents visited us in Cuenca, Ecuador and we took a city bus tour. To capture the feel of the city, I created a driving time lapse with my GoPro camera clamped on the front of the bus. In this post, I’m going to write about the five steps to shoot your [...]
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