John Enman

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Photographing the garden each and every time the seasons change is a rewarding way to capture the life that begins, grows, blossoms and then retreats into sleep.

Garden walk – camera in hand

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Photographing the garden each and every time the seasons change is a rewarding way to capture the life that begins, grows, blossoms and then retreats into sleep.
Use your photographs to create personalized Christmas cards for friends and family.

Time to print your own Christmas cards

Christmas is a great time for photographers to gift their work through cards

Use your photographs to create personalized Christmas cards for friends and family.
A 1960s twin lens reflex Yashica camera is a 120mm format film camera. Unlike modern DSLR cameras, photographers don’t hold the camera up to their eye to peer though a tiny hole, and instead view the subject by holding the camera at waist level while focusing on a 2¼” square ground glass.

Twin lens reflex film camera

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A 1960s twin lens reflex Yashica camera is a 120mm format film camera. Unlike modern DSLR cameras, photographers don’t hold the camera up to their eye to peer though a tiny hole, and instead view the subject by holding the camera at waist level while focusing on a 2¼” square ground glass.

Happiness is spending a day with my camera

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Participants in a two day workshop facilitated by John Enman learned that creative outdoor portraiture is so much more than just pointing a camera at a willing subject standing in the sunlight.

Leading a lighting workshop: Part 2

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Participants in a two day workshop facilitated by John Enman learned that creative outdoor portraiture is so much more than just pointing a camera at a willing subject standing in the sunlight.
When photographers begin to realize how much better, and more creative, their portraits are when they begin taking control of electronic flash they get excited.

Leading a lighting workshop

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When photographers begin to realize how much better, and more creative, their portraits are when they begin taking control of electronic flash they get excited.
The image on exposed on film, although now a RAW image file, is only the “score” to the “final performance” – the photographic print.

The final photographic performance

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The image on exposed on film, although now a RAW image file, is only the “score” to the “final performance” – the photographic print.
Photographing Chase falls with infrared and a fisheye lense produced an interesting picture.

Shooting infrared on a colourful October day

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Photographing Chase falls with infrared and a fisheye lense produced an interesting picture.
Successful street photography captures the moments around us and can make a statement about the world we live in.

Trying street photography, it may not be for everyone

Making Pictures With John Enman - Trying street photography, it may not be for everyone

Successful street photography captures the moments around us and can make a statement about the world we live in.
Photography during vacation is a great way to preserve your memories, meet new people and captures those special moments.

Capturing short our vacation in Vancouver

Making Pictures with John Enman: Capturing short our vacation in Vancouver

Photography during vacation is a great way to preserve your memories, meet new people and captures those special moments.
Take precautions and don’t let bad weather ruin good photography.

Taking care of your camera on a wet day

Making Pictures with John Enman: Taking care of your camera on a wet day

Take precautions and don’t let bad weather ruin good photography.

It is always fun to do photography with someone else

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Salmon Arm with it’s unique, picturesque downtown and what residents claim to be the longest, curved wooden wharf in North America is located on the Shuswap Lake, and provides many opportunities to make photographs the way you see the view.

Photography can be a process of observation

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Salmon Arm with it’s unique, picturesque downtown and what residents claim to be the longest, curved wooden wharf in North America is located on the Shuswap Lake, and provides many opportunities to make photographs the way you see the view.
Digital makes learning photography easy.

Digital makes learning photography easy

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Digital makes learning photography easy.
The 'rule of thirds” is a simple principal that divides an image into thirds, horizontally and vertically, and tells us to position the most important elements in our scene along these lines, or at the points where they intersect, and by doing so, adding balance and interest to one’s picture

Our personal photographic vision

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The 'rule of thirds” is a simple principal that divides an image into thirds, horizontally and vertically, and tells us to position the most important elements in our scene along these lines, or at the points where they intersect, and by doing so, adding balance and interest to one’s picture

What were my first cameras?

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Older 1970s film cameras and lenses are gaining in popularity.

What’s up with the return of those old 1970s film cameras?

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Older 1970s film cameras and lenses are gaining in popularity.
When photographing fast, volatile subjects like those at a rodeo, John Enman says “I prefer shutter priority mode where I select the shutter, and the camera chooses the aperture. I prefer shutter speeds of 1/500th or more if possible. One also must be aware of depth-of-field, and I balance my shutter speed and aperture taking that into consideration.”

Photographing annual Pritchard Rodeo

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When photographing fast, volatile subjects like those at a rodeo, John Enman says “I prefer shutter priority mode where I select the shutter, and the camera chooses the aperture. I prefer shutter speeds of 1/500th or more if possible. One also must be aware of depth-of-field, and I balance my shutter speed and aperture taking that into consideration.”
Depth of field is that area in front of and behind your subject that is acceptably sharp.

Understanding the elusive depth of field

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Depth of field is that area in front of and behind your subject that is acceptably sharp.
Compose and isolate the center of interest in your photograph, and decide how to use the background to the best effect. Should the background be in, out, partially focused, or have it clear or cluttered, and is it appropriate for inclusion or should it be excluded.

Photographers, remember to consider the background

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Compose and isolate the center of interest in your photograph, and decide how to use the background to the best effect. Should the background be in, out, partially focused, or have it clear or cluttered, and is it appropriate for inclusion or should it be excluded.