Pete's Photo Tips II

Alright the tip today is how to capture motion blur. There are a few steps involved in getting it done well. Doing a shot like this works best if you have your camera on manual so you can control the shutter speed and f-stop. First off choose a subject that will be moving, car, bike, train or some one running. Now stand comfortably, legs apart, hold your camera steady and pick the point that you will be taking the shot. From the point you will be shooting set up your exposure, I recommend between 1/8 to 1/10 th of a second with a 50 mm lens. Now here is the tricky part, pivot with your hip and track your subject as it moves and take the shot at the point you exposed for. The smoother you are with tracking the better your shot will be. Practice this method and play with different shutter speeds, you will find that you can get some incredible looking action shots.

No Mas!

Contact Photography Festival

We're not in the festival this year, but I took some time out on this rainy Saturday afternoon to go and check out some of the work exhibited (actually I got invited out by a good friend, because I'm a procrastinator about seeing exhibits!).

So after a full afternoon of gallery hopping, here are my favourites so far & in no particular order:

• David Burdeny: Greenland/Antarctica - Galerie Lausberg, 880 Queen St West
• Recurrent Memories, Historic Jewish sites in Canada & Poland - Gallery 345 (a MUST see, it gave me goosebumps), 345 Sorauren Ave.
• From the Epic to the Everyday (Particularly the works by Alessandra Sangwinetti, Adi Nes & Bert Teunissen...I somehow managed to MISS the Nan Goldin works) - MOCCA, 952 Queen St West

I saw several others, but they didn't grab me the way these ones did. Do yourself a favour and head out. The festival takes part throughout the month of May in Toronto.

R