Tag Archives: lighting

lighting up the night

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Robert

Toronto. In the days of film photography, the speed of the media was too slow to take good night or studio shots. As a suitable solution, photographers took refuge in flash or electric illumination – like the kit shown here. … Continue reading →

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Christmas time and the giftin’ is easy

Posted on March 14, 2023 by Robert

Toronto. Well this is either a few months late or a lot of months early for Christmas! My thanks to George Dunbar for sharing this piece of history with us – a December 1951 ad from Kodak in Popular Mechanics … Continue reading →

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refuge from the bright light brigade

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Robert

Toronto. A December, 1921 article in Popular Mechanics shows how movie processes were performed while delicate eyes were protected from the bright lights so necessary back then when both lenses and media were pathetically slow. Before each scene, a cameraman … Continue reading →

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shine a light on me

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Robert

Toronto. One of the most important things in photography is lighting. The choice of illumination sets the tone and atmosphere of the resulting image. Natural light aficionados  have it easier – choose the angle and framing for the best shot. … Continue reading →

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light up the night

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Robert

Toronto. Photography played a key roll in WW2. High flying aircraft with aerial cameras mapped the ground searching for enemy troops and armaments. A bright idea, tested over upper NY State, was the ‘light bomb’ described in this January 1941 … Continue reading →

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light my fire

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Back to the very beginnings of photography, savvy studio artists used lighting to model their subjects, control contrast, and at just the right instant capture the fire or essence of each subject. Over the decades, books have proliferated with … Continue reading →

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ya gotta light, mister

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. For decades photographic studios were the epitome of Photographic businesses. In reality, the studios usually cranked out technically sound portraits using a tried and true combination of lighting including facial lights for modelling the features, background lights to illuminate … Continue reading →

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spot on

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. One big difference between amateur photographs, and those made by professionals and advanced amateurs, was illumination. Indoors, the professional went to great lengths to illuminate his subject bringing out the nuances of its very existence whether a human, an … Continue reading →

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hammer it home Nov 17th

Posted on September 15, 2019 by Robert

Toronto.  Our Fall Fair has wrapped up for another year and our next big event is the PHSC Estate Auction which will be on Sunday, November 17, 2019 down in the Long Branch area of west end Toronto at the … Continue reading →

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Photographic Canadiana 43-3 is coming

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Robert

Toronto. Okay all you folk who are members – the latest exciting issue of our favourite journal will be packaged late this week! We have the Toronto Notes column up front covering the first two fall meetings. This column is … Continue reading →

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