Simple Tips to Quickly Improve Your Photography

Simple Tips to Quickly Improve Your Photography At Learn Photography Canada we always say that our hands on photography classes are a good way to learn, but these are just the start of your photographic journey.  Here are the top 4 things you can do that will help your photography to improve almost immediately! Practice: […]

Making the most your camera

Making the Most of Your Camera So you have this gorgeous camera system, and you love it, and it takes amazing photos (even though we all know that comes from the photographer more than the camera!), but it stays in the cupboard way longer than it should. Rest assured you’re not alone! Most of us […]

3 Tips for Getting Better Depth of Field

Getting Better Depth of Field   Are you struggling to get that creamy, smooth background you’re craving in your photos? Here are 3 tips for getting a better (in this case more shallow) depth of field for those stand-out photos. Not following these tips? That’s ok! Remember you can always join our Digital I – […]

Using the Spray Can Tool in Lightroom

Baby girl wearing pink suit sitting on carpet with black dog in background

Editing Made Easy – Using The Spray Can Tool in Lightroom Lightroom is such a powerful program and is full of amazing, nifty, simple tools. This week we’re talking the Spray Can Tool  . This tool allows you to very quickly copy organizational settings across a bunch of photos. It’s perfect to use if you […]

A Great Use for Shutter Priority

Ghosting of people walking along European style street with lit up shops and customers in background at night

Shutter Priority – Capturing Ghost people If you’ve been to our Digital I – Beginner Photography Course then you will know that we don’t spend a lot of time covering Shutter Priority (this is the S or Tv mode on your camera). But we sometimes mention one great use for this mode: Ghosting ??… Just a […]

Composition Tip – Shadows

Shadows Shadows are a great technique to use in photography. They provide a lot of contrast to your photographs, can evoke emotion and certainly make the photograph more interesting to look at. Here are some great ways to add this special effect: Shadow photography can be a great technique to use in the middle of […]

4 Ways to Steady Your Hands-On Photos

Performers on stilts walking through smoke on street at night

How to Steady Your Photos When Shooting Hands-On Taking steady, well-focused photos is one of the photographer’s greatest struggles. While we enjoy the freedom of point-and-shoot photography, shaky hands can compromise the overall quality of your photos. We find it incredibly easy to rely on tripods to steady our shots, but creating an overreliance on […]

Focusing your camera at Night

Lightning over bridge with boats in foreground

Focusing at Night – Tips to get Crystal Clear Night Photos Focusing your camera at night can take a little practice. For many systems, simply Auto-focusing when the sun goes down no longer cuts it. Here are a few tips for focusing your camera for those crystal clear night photos: Use manual focus. (Usually the […]

5 Tips to Add Some FUN to Your Photography

Tilt shift of busy street at night with overhead footbridges

5 Tips to Add Some FUN to Your Photography! Photography is already seriously good fun, but we’ve come up with 5 really simple and creative ways you can add a little extra fun to your photos every now and then. Note, we don’t recommend you use these tricks with every photo you take, but it’s […]

Meet Tina Quinn – LPC Alumni

CONGRATULATIONS to Tina Quinn!   Congratulations Tina! Your photo of the Louvre in Paris was totally spectacular and definitely worth the title of WINNER of our Learn Photography Canada Alumni Black & White Photography Contest. We have been lucky enough to have Tina on our Ultimate PLUS Package, which means she’s taken all of our […]