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Olympus plans micro-safaris
Olympus is also known for the design of microscopes what is a good explanation for their organization of an annual microphotogrphy contest. It is clear that the participants must practice a photographic art which does not rely on AWD SUV cars and long telel-lenses. But the winners of this year brought back pictures that seem…
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A Soviet Photoshop
A little historical gem: Soviet Russia had found a way to automate the photo image retouching jobs before the invention of Photoshop but with the help of a rotary scanner. YouTube link
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Tracey Kidston, new web site
You probably remember Tracey Kidston, who was a featured portfolio in last January. She updated her web site to present (among others) new pictures from Costa Rica. The size of displayed images is also a little larger.
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Links between a flash and a studio
A photographic studio is not only a place where there are too many cables on the floor. It could also be an excuse to find a lot of useful web links: High Speed Sync for flash at any shutter speed Almost Free DIY Paper Diffuser (Strobist) High Speed Photography Studio at Home You also have…
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Olympus: no more DSLR!
In a way, this was expected, but the news are now official. Olympus wants to develop itself totally in the EVIL kind of digital, like the cute little PEN cameras. More precisely, Toshiyuki Terada, Product Manager at the SLR Planning Department of Olympus, said to Fotopolis that this implied both not replacing the current DSLR…
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Will Microsoft buy Adobe?
photo credit: Microsoft Sweden The rumor started yesterday (Friday): Microsoft was on the verge of buying Adobe right off the market. The Adobe stock price shot up by 17% during the day (triggering an automated circuit-breaker to stop pricing), after the announcement of a meeting between Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer and Adobe…
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Sony & Nikon rush for 1st and 2nd spots
photo credit: Pascal Vuylsteker Canon is still the first photo camera manufacturer in the world (counted in total turnover). this comes firstly from the enviable position on the Digital SLR market, a real cash cow. But competition is here and we could learn some of what they intend to do to improve their relative position.…
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The new face of YLovePhoto
As you can immediately see if you are a returning friend of YLovePhoto, we just changed our face for something more organized and to help visitors navigate easier. After nearly two years of existence, some would say that it was the right time for it. I admit I am happy to see the last weeks…
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Dramatic fire for Philip Plisson
Fortunately, with more destruction than victims, the “Plisson La Trinité” studio-gallery burned to the ground on September 19. Unfortunately, this is a 30-year-long archive which flared up in flames. Those are thousands of pictures, the years of life of a great man who will have to rebuild from nearly nothing, except his eyes, his heart…