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  • Photography quote of the day

    Photography quote of the day

    The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. Susan Meiselas

  • Photography quote of the day

    Photography quote of the day

    No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Robert Adams You need both.

  • Upscaling a photo with free AI

    Upscaling a photo with free AI

    Problem statement Sometimes, I am somewhat dissatisfied with the size of my digital photographs. The simplest way to improve (after the fact) is to run any Photoshop-like program, and apply a resampling (resize) preferably with the Lanczos method, in order to get 2x or 3x or 4x more pixels. It is fast and efficient, but…

  • Improve your photographic skills with a photo challenge

    Improve your photographic skills with a photo challenge

    One little idea to progress in our mastering of the photographic technique: Take a photo challenge like “52 photos in 52 weeks”. There are many of them, but I looked at one of the most famous ones: The Dogwood 52 Week Photography Challenge. Major advantage: It does not concentrate on the technical side of photographic…

  • Protection of your privacy and of your data

    Protection of your privacy and of your data

    You may not have noticed it but European Regulations recently required some significant changes on web sites, in order to make sure that they are respectful of their visitors and -even more importantly- of the privacy of their data. Our web site has been adapting since a few weeks with a few nice changes, including:…

  • Fast identify your USB drives and sticks

    Fast identify your USB drives and sticks

    We are handling so many memory cards and USB thumb drives that it is often quite unpleasant to recognize them all. Sometimes, because it is difficult to find them in the photographer bag, sometimes because all these look alike when plugged into our computers. wouldn’t it be great if we had a simple way to…

  • Our backups after the end of CrashPlan for Home

    Our backups after the end of CrashPlan for Home

    In the past, I did some recommendations about backups. Today, I insist on the criticity for the digital photographer to keep her eyes on this operation (who did not discovere with horror that some files had disappeard from the hard disk drive?). But this now becomes a central question after CrashPlan announced the end of…

  • World Backup Day 2017

    World Backup Day 2017

    Sometimes, one wonders whether it is still necessary to repeat it, but it is important (No! critical) to backup digital data as soon as we approach our first computer. Worse, for a (digital) photographer, it’s now critical. Don’t we all have lost already one or more images because of a hard disk crash, a capricious…

  • No more lost memory cards (Tip)

    No more lost memory cards (Tip)

    My personal prophylactics in order to avoid loosing memory cards and photos on memory cards: Always format the memory card in-camera (formatting on a computer may not be right for your camera, same thing about formatting on another camera) Always wait 3 seconds before ejecting the memroy card (or check the red LED flashing on…