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If you have nothing better to do this Sunday, you might want to consider participating in the International Shooting All The Time Day Contest. All you have to do is take a picture every 5 minutes for 15 hours and…

I need to figure out how to make my dSLR camera do the Slow Sync Flash thing, meaning I’ll be asking Troy to figure it out for me because, hey, I didn’t marry an engineer for nothing! :P Anyway, the…

A gallery of prize-winning photos from World Toy Camera Day 2006 includes one taken by yours truly. Woot! That made my day….

How to turn your digital SLR into a digital Lomo Colorsplash. Well, you could use a film SLR camera instead but of course the results wouldn’t be instant. It does look like a fun experiment material, turning an expensive camera…

Halloween Photo Tips — Our Ghoulish Guide to Scary Snaps. Many Hallowe’en decorations should be up by now so it’s time to take your camera out and shoot some scary pictures! Though personally, I find Hallowe’en decorations more funny than…

Firda at Tabblo. Yup, I’ve been having a lot of fun at Tabblo. I signed up for an account in July but I forgot all about it until earlier this week. Tabblo provides you with an unlimited space for your…

Canon EOS 400D Digital Rebel XTi Preview. Hopefully that means the price of its predecessor will drop significantly. Though the XTi sounds pretty sweet. I especially like how it comes with a Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit….

Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids or panorama in the style of Hockney (David Hockney is an English artist famous for his photocollages). I think I’m going to to shoot something like this when we go to Port Dover this weekend and…

How to develop a photo using blueprint paper and Windex. I think it’s more like an image transfer than photo development since you need a black and white print to start with. It’s still interesting nonetheless. Might try it if…

Adorama’s in-depth guide to Special Effects Photography is an interesting read if you’re into photography. You may need a SLR camera for some of the tricks explained in this guide, but not all….

Flickrshow is a simple javascript that enables you to display a slideshow of your Flickr photosets on your own website. I think it’s pretty cool….

Find Detail in Your Photos That You Thought Was Lost… in Five minutes or Less! Yet another very helpful article from Photojojo. The real instructions are in video format, though. Now I just have to find a photo to practise…

How To: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio. I’m really into macro photography right now so I might try to do this project soon. I’ll just have to find the materials. Yay for stuff to do!…

Thoughts About Photography: Polaroid SX-70 Modification for 600 Film. Someday I’ll get around to modifying my SX-70. I once loaded 600 film into it but didn’t do any modifications to the lens. The results? All the pictures turned up way…

11 Tips for Sparkling Fireworks Photos. Just in time for Canada Day tomorrow….

Unphotographable: a text account of pictures missed. This is a picture I did not a take of a man moving the case of beer he’d been carrying — most likely from the Beer Store three blocks away — to his…

I also forgot to post about my experiment with Ground Glass Photography. I shot these ground glass photos last week. Instead of using a Kodak Duaflex, which I do own, I used an Argus Super Seventy-five. It was a lot…

Reading Great Photographers on the Internet (a satire) at The Online Photographer led me to this Flickr post where a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson (one of the masters of photography) was submitted to a Flickr photo critique group, the notorious…

I’d seen pictures taken with a peephole before but this $11 Super Wide Angle Digital Camera article that I came across last week was what made me want to actually shoot with a peephole. We picked up a peephole on…

These wonderful scans of fruits and vegetables are definitely worth checking out….

Ground Glass Photography is something that I’ve been wanting to try but keep forgetting to. Kodak Duaflex cameras seem to be the popular choice for this type of photography….