Skate away the worries

Christmas is a stressful time for many, don't forget to take a time out and enjoy the little things, Happy Holidays.

Here's an example of 1%

Dirty chromatic aberrations, complex barrel distortion and a really unsharp 1st third - this is perhaps the first time that I've felt that my dinky kit lens limited the quality of my image more than my technique. But Parliament still looks incredible

The Mighty Lion

Walk the Path

It awaits you

Brave man

You just looking for trouble, making fun of Fangorn like this

Bad photographers fuss about their gear, good photographers fuss about their photos

Its always bugs me when people complain that their photography equipment isn't good enough and that its the reason why their photos are rubbish. Maybe 1% of the time this is true and your camera is the limiting factor in your work but the other 99% of the time, it simply isn't true. Show me one bad image as a "result" of your equipment and I'll show you a thousand great ones taken with a cellphone camera.
My point is technique is everything. Forget about the Nikon vs Canon vs or the Aperture vs Lightroom Film vs Digital etc. arguments.

If people spent as much time fussing about their images as much as they spent fussing about their gear, I think there would be a lot more fantastic photographers out there. My favorite point to use in this argument is look at the work of Ansel Adams, look at his successes and then look at the gear that he had to use.

The bottom line is stop whining about getting that new lens or that new body and start going out and improving your technique.

For the record, I love my "old" camera and to this day, as my technique improves, I am amazed at the quality of images that I can get out of it.

Hey Ottawa, drop tuition fees!!!

Students protested the high levels of tuition in the streets of Toronto on 5th November 2009. Here are the passionate Ryerson students making their voices heard.