Calgary’s Best Photography Locations
Calgary’s diverse art community is growing and thriving. It’s always so exciting to see a city invest in the arts and Calgary has done an amazing job recently, with some brilliant new artwork downtown (like the Wunderland Sculpture), the Peace Bridge and the new Calgary Library. Whether you are in love with them or not, […]
Capturing Lightning
Capturing Lightning – In 5 Steps We love storm season for the amazing photographic opportunities. We’ve talked in brief about capturing spectacular storm photos, but in this blog we’re going to give you a quick guide on how to capture lightning! The most important thing we can emphasize here is safety. Pay close attention to […]
What it takes to “go pro”
For many of us, photography is a fantastic hobby. We just love to spend our days traveling to great locations around our cities, provinces, countries and world to take memories, capture incredible scenes and generally photograph great moments. But for other’s of us, this hobby often morphs into something more. We want to take it […]
What We’ve Learnt From Our Best Students
We love all of our amazing students here at LPC. And we do truly mean this – we’re not just saying it. Each of the people who come to our classes have made a contentious effort to learn a new skill – to join a class full of strangers – to trust in a company […]
3 Tips to Better Use Your Tripod
1. Turn off your image stabilization. This actually relates to your lens/camera and not your actual tripod. Image stabilization is a small motor that runs in either your lens (typically) or your camera body to help balance out the natural movement in your hands when you shoot hand-held. It’s great for shooting hand-held, but when […]
Getting to Know Your Lenses
So James & I have just been fortunate enough to take our daughter Charlotte to Hong Kong. Not sure if you can see the resemblance, but James’ family is most definitely Hong Kong (well Chinese) in descent, so we’ve had a great time seeing family again and exploring the city. One thing that we love […]