Photography

Toronto Photo Walk Update for Summer and Fall 2020
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Toronto Photo Walk Update for Summer and Fall 2020

Will we be able to have photo walks this year? Good question. This year we had a great line-up of photo walks. Obviously they have been cancelled thus far. We hope we might resume, if conditions allow it, sometime in fall. It depends on the restrictions on groups and how people feel about it. We…

Tdot Shots Turns Two! Thank You Toronto and GTA Photo Community For Your Support!
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Tdot Shots Turns Two! Thank You Toronto and GTA Photo Community For Your Support!

We have reached many milestones and celebrating our two-year anniversary ranks as an important marker. We launched in late May 2018. I posted the first few photos on Instagram while travelling from Niagara to Toronto on a Go Train. It was exciting watching those first few likes and follows arrive. It was a very slow…

Introduction to Astrophotography: Shooting the Milky Way and Star Trails
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Introduction to Astrophotography: Shooting the Milky Way and Star Trails

Article and photos by Eric de van der Schueren Introduction to the Basics of Star Trail Photography and Milky Way Photography. It Is Possible With Almost Any Camera! Are you new to photography and want to try to capture the stars on your DSLR? You don’t need an expensive camera, lenses, or telescope to get…

Enter the Tdot Shots Toronto Photo Contest May 15 – July 1 2020
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Enter the Tdot Shots Toronto Photo Contest May 15 – July 1 2020

CREATE COMMUNITY is the name of this year’s contest, part of the events produced by Tdot Shots, an organization promoting photography and art in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Are you a Toronto-based photographer, video producer or artist? You can enter your work in the Tdot Shots (@tdot_shots on Instagram) and win one of 3…

Capturing Kindness During Crisis (Signs of the Times in Toronto)
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Capturing Kindness During Crisis (Signs of the Times in Toronto)

Documenting Our Community and Covid-19 via Street Photography Article and images by Shawna Cohen aka @co.snaps Sleep while you still can, they told me. Kiss your career goodbye, they warned. Ah, the things you hear when you’re pregnant. Turns out, what I missed most after having a baby was simply brunching and wandering the city:…

City of Toronto Launches Cherry Blossom Cam and Closes High Park
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City of Toronto Launches Cherry Blossom Cam and Closes High Park

High Park Cherry Blossoms Are a Rite of Spring Looking forward to spring? So are we! And one longstanding tradition that we always look forward to are the cherry blossoms appearing around the city, particularly in High Park. High Park Crowds During the Bloom Every year I walk to the park from my home in…

Photography: Basic Image Editing On A Street Shot In Adobe Lightroom
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Photography: Basic Image Editing On A Street Shot In Adobe Lightroom

By Sayantan Basu “Covid 19” or Corona virus has people indoors a lot. As a photographer being quarantined is really challenging but I think we should accept this and strategize our next step accordingly to “make the most of the quarantine”. The thing I am doing these days is editing, which involves revisiting my old…