UVic Siege Week 2013

UVic engineers are holding the annual Siege Week event from June 17 to 21, between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. outside the Student Union Building. Passersby are invited to donate $5 for three shots on the engineering students’ siege weapons, with proceeds going to...
Why quality photos matter more than ever

Why quality photos matter more than ever

On May 30th, the Chicago Sun-Times, home of Roger Ebert’s columns for many decades, laid off their 28 full-time photographers, including Pulitzer Prize-winner John H. White, in favour of shifting the photography burden to reporters and freelancers. As expected, there...
Different focal lengths, different perspectives

Different focal lengths, different perspectives

Every modern photographer has used a zoom lens on a camera before. They help “crop in camera” so there’s nothing extraneous in the frame. While the different focal lengths afforded by zoom lenses (or a series of primes) can alter your field of view like a crop tool,...
Truth and fiction in photography

Truth and fiction in photography

Recently, I watched Adrian Grenier’s documentary Teenage Paparazzo to see how much my own role as a general assignment photographer lines up with that of the paparazzi, a job I’ve never really respected. I had been called a paparazzo in jest in the past, which really...
An illuminating lesson in simplicity

An illuminating lesson in simplicity

Most of my concept images are of objects rather than people, but when I was asked to come up with a photo to accompany an article about watching horror movies, I grew excited with the prospect and immediately had an idea, which is almost never the case. I wanted to...