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Color and Flight, Fright, Food & Sex
Color vision in our primeval brain helped us to survive, to avoid getting eaten, to identify which animals and plants are edible and which are poisonous, we even used color to help find a suitable mate for reproduction. No wonder from a young age we are attracted to bright colors. My theory is that when…
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The Framed Challenge
Your mission this weekend is to photograph things that are framed by other elements in the picture. It is up to you to find your primary subject and make sure it is framed by its surroundings. This exercise will help you train your eye and ultimately better your composition skills. As always there’s restrictions to…
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Little Italy low angle Challenge
Sneaky Dees a Toronto Landmark This weeks challenge was to take low or high angle shots but because my knees are shot most of my challenge shots were taken standing looking up high or sitting on the pavement. The location was Little Italy which is a strip of Italian restaurants on College St. West, the…
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Canon 500D Close-up Lens
Final after almost 2 weeks of waiting my Canon 500D close-up lens arrived from Hong Kong. I shouldn’t complain the cost was much lower then I could have brought it locally. With the money I saved I also brought a RC1 remote and a lenspen. I broke even on the lenspen, later found out they…
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Black Creek Pioneer Village – Symmetry / Flash Fill Challenge
I missed last week’s symmetry challenged so I combined it with this week’s flash-fill challenge.Two Halfs Make a Hole (mirror symmetry) Mellow Yellow (angular symmetry) This is the closest to multi-scale symmetry (related to fractals) Example: where magnified shape of the edge of the beach looks similar to the beach shoreline, looks similar to ……
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Raw and City Night Shots
With all the city lights this 100mm @ f2.2 ISO 200 with a 15 Second exposure appears to be shot at midday not as it was 1 hour after sunset. A plane flying by looks like a film scratch. So the question of the day is why shoot raw? Some reasons not to shot raw:…
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Toronto Brick Works
Most of older Toronto was built from bricks out of this huge derelict factory located at the base of the Bayview extension in the Don Valley. Evergreen has big plans to redevelop the property while keeping the character of the structure. Some more of my Brickworks Photos
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The Creative Colour Challenge
This last Sunday the TPMG went to the CNE with a challenge for the day. As I replied to the posted challenge I choose to loosely interpret plaid as a color 🙂 Some more of my photos shot for the challenge. Challenge by: Ryan Tacay “In collaboration with the upcoming event at the CNE this…
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Frogging at the Chin Picnic
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Color is it the same for each of us?
Do we all see colors the same way? The simple answer is no, otherwise why would some people dress in such awful colors. This is not to imply there is anything wrong with the colors of the clothes on this Wards Island clothesline. We also know that some people have various levels of color blindness…