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  • Pencil drawing: Vintage cameras

    Christine Berrie is a pencil artist whose work can be astonishing. If you are in vintage cameras, you’ll probably love her vintage camera poster. And you can buy the poster at Etsy.

  • Take YLovePhoto with you (in PDF format)

    A minor feature that may appeal to some of you: I found a way to present the web site in the form of a traditional newspaper in PDF format for easy handling (you can take it with you and travel far from Internet). You may be willing to test right now one of the two…

  • All about backups for the photographer

    As a summary for the recent series of posts about options open to the digital photographer willing to protect his/her picture files (i.e. backup all photo files), here is a table of contents that should help you find again all solutions I presented over the last 4 weeks. Local backup options (External hard disk drive)…

  • Backup for the photographer – part 4 & conclusions

    Previously, we just scraped the surface of what can be done to archive and backup large amounts of photographic data. While the local storage (hard disc drives and optical drives) are fine, they are not solid enough to protect against all kinds of accidents that we want to be able to sustain. So, we started…

  • Wildlife Photography Fail

  • Backup for the photographer – part 3

    After exploring the external hard drive and optical drive backup options available to photographers willing to protect their images from accidental damage, let’s see what on-line storage options we have. These all have the advantage of protecting your backup against one aspect of risk management: There is no longer a risk of seeing a local…

  • No Canon for PMA

    This is really recession time: Even Canon decided to cut expenses and will not go to the PMA fair in Anaheim, CA next year (in Feb 2010). This will leave Photokina (in Koln, Germany) as the only world-level photo trade show seeing all major players in the same location. Well, if nobody else tries to…

  • Backup for the photographer – part 2

    We have been looking into the most obvious option for the photographer willing to backup its large amount of data: The local storage on an external hard drive. Nearly everyone of us at least tried to use this approach. But it is worth trying to understand that there are other very good options that I…

  • Water splash: The easy way to a great photo

    photo credit: nsaplayer Who did not dream of making such a great photo as the milk or water drop stopped in mid-air? But this seems quite difficult. It may be, but there are a few techniques that can simplify things a little. Gavin Hoey, in the following video, shows a few of them, explaining lighting…