photography lessons in Vancouver

I met a great young couple from Colorado and we
had a couple of lessons on Granville Island.

If you are a visitor from out of town, I can show you
how to use your camera better in some part of the city
you'd like to visit.

Here's what my most recent students had to say:

"Your lessons were very helpful -- you were great at explaining things, and we liked that you provided so much hands-on experience, allowing us to take and review various pictures and to make adjustments to get the image just right. It is great to know what all the buttons and settings on our camera do, after years of just using the "auto" function and hoping for the best.

We spent the weekend exploring the Kitsilano area and taking pictures at the parks/beaches there -- it was so helfpul to know exactly what to change on the camera to get the image we wanted.

It also helped that you were a nice guy and easy to be around - it would be tough to take these lessons from someone who was barking orders at us all day! It is quite obvious that you love your work, had a thorough photography education, and have a great eye for your art."

- Luke and Megan from Denver

aerial photography

This is one type of shooting that I have not
done very often but would love to do again
and often. It would be best to have an open
window so next time I'm flying in a Beaver
I'm going to try to get the front seat and
get the little window open. From the back seat
I got some decent shots but the curving glass
reflects light from inside so I had to be careful
to avoid those reflections. And as the plane vibrates a lot,
I did not want to touch the camera to the window.
I used a high shutter speed like 1/500 sec to deal
with the plane's movement and the vibration. You don't
need a lot of depth of field as everything down
below is very far. So f 5.6 or 8 would do.
The worst problem is that the window was
a bit dusty so the dirt softens the image
as you shoot through the glass. Grab that
front seat next time.