Love, Cameras & Shutter Mode

What better place to explore action photography than at Nathan Phillips Square, one of Toronto’s most popular Urban Playgrounds. You will learn how to use Shutter Priority Mode on your cameras, as well as Selective Focus and Servo/Continuous Focus Mode to bring maximum impact to your action shots. Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to capture couples enjoying each other’s company. And whether you’re single or partnered up, couples make a great subject for a photograph

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TUPF 2015 Theme: Urban Playground

We live, we work, and act as sightseers in an ever evolving landscape. We live in a melting pot of culture and try to find ourselves within it all.   We laugh, we grow, and we play.   This year is all about the inspiration we find around us, how we adapt, and how we find time to play with ideas and find ourselves in an environment beyond natural and cultural boundaries. Though our environment can define us, we can also define our environment. We can find joy, play, and create meanin

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Christmas at the Distillery Results!

Our first event of TUPF 2015 was a great success! Our photowalk/workshop at the Distillery District Christmas Market focused on long exposure photography and light painting. Paul, Chris, and Jas taught our participants the settings and equipment required for taking long exposure photos. The photos below were taken by some of our instructors (Paul Brown) and participants (Key Guan, Kanchan Tripathi, Esma Yakut Özdemir), feel free to leave a comment if you took photos there that were not inclu

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2014 Year in Review

2014 marked TUPF’s second year in Toronto. Our CommUnity theme brought out some amazing works from a lot of amazing photographers, and created some awesome connections with some amazing people and companies such as Nuvango, Gallery 918, Steam Whistle Breweries, Lowepro, Joby, and Colourgenics. This amazing collection of work and partners, helped reaffirm the strong photographic community that Toronto has and showed all of us here at TUPF that what we do has strong community ties that help

Christmas at the Distillery District

  The Toronto Urban Photography Festival will be hosting its first event of the 2015 season with a Christmas-themed night shoot at the Distillery District in downtown Toronto. For details on the general event, check  here: Following in the tradition of our most successful event of the 2014 festival, we will be providing a magical venue with lots of lights, combining a daylight and night shoot. Instructions will be given in how to shoot the lights on their own, how to combine on-and-off-ca