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Tdot Shots Photo Walk Meetups and Walking Tours in Toronto
We are excited to announce our spring / summer photo walks are in full swing. We have held a few spring events and now we welcome you to join our summer meetups. Upcoming Photo Walks May 29 University of Toronto (History / Architecture) June 5 Humber Bay (Landscape / Sunrise Photography with Guest Kurt Wang)…
Get to Know Eight Favourite Toronto Neighbourhoods and BIAs
Featured image by Norm Li / Centrecourt Toronto is a city of dozens of unique and inspiring neighbourhoods, each offering a special aspect that makes them original. Here’s our profile of eight of our editors favourites. Read on and then get out there and explore! What is a BIA? The City of Toronto describes them…
Shoot Wide / Landscape and Crop to Portrait or Square Aspect Ratio (Photography and Social Media Tips)
It’s important to capture your images and save your work at high resolution, even if the final destination is social media, which is very much a low res medium. As a photographer, I prefer to shoot in landscape mode, which is more natural to me. I can then post landscape images online to my website or Flickr, and optionally post portrait crop images to social media such as Instagram. In this post I’ll explain my process and share examples.
Nature in the City: Photographing Snowy Owls in Toronto
Can you imagine how interesting and magical it would be to go out to shoot photos and be able to capture a snowy owl in Toronto? This was the experience of Carl aka @pawlowski.outdoors on a recent outing in the Toronto area.
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