focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/160
aperture: f/9
ISO: 320
flash: fired off-camera to the right
Last night, our photo club set out to photograph smoke. You have probably seen beautiful images of the wispy subject before and perhaps even wondered how to do that yourself. Well, it’s pretty simple actually.
Materials needed:

a few incense sticks
incense holder - [...]

Last night our photo club met up to work on shooting portraits. We meet at 7:30pm each week so the sun is usually very low in the sky by that time and almost gone by the time we are busy shooting. Although the sun had already set by the time I took this [...]

Last monday, I had the extreme pleasure of attending Ninja Workshops led by Dave and Quin of DQ Studios, extraordinary wedding photographers based in Calgary, Alberta. It was my first time attending a photography related workshop, so I didn’t know quite what to expect but let me tell you that it was better than [...]

focal length: 200 mm
shutter speed: 1/200
aperture: f/5.3
ISO: 320
flash: fired
The image above is what I had envisioned when I took snapped the photo a few months ago, except this is all that I was able to get because I was using my 70-300mm lens instead of my macro lens.

I just couldn’t get close enough [...]

focal length: 105 mm
shutter speed: 1/250
aperture: f/11
ISO: 400
flash: fired - 4 speedlights off-camera at 1/16 power each
I love our photo club because we actually get together to shoot and try new types of photography. Inspired by one of our member’s water drop shot from the week before, we wanted to try our hand at [...]