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  • Merry Christmas!

    Don’t forget to go outside and play with your new photography gifts! Photo credits: katielips.

  • 3 demonstrations of flash/studio photo

    Studio photography is clearly a real specialty and I don’t hide my admiration for those photographers able to master its difficult techniques. I recently found three demonstrations of what may be a beautiful studio lighting, along with dense explanations and welcome details. Anatomy of a photo: Balvenie Scotch Professional Studio Lighting – Playing with Mirrors…

  • World Powers Photos

    Pendant la session d’ouverture des Nations Unies en septembre dernier à New York, Platon, photographe pour le New Yorker et connu pour quelques portraits réussis de Poutine par exemple, a installé un studio dans l’immeuble des Nations Unis pour y photographier les grands de ce monde qui passaient là. Il a maintenant rassemblé ces photographies…

  • A hard disk drive for your backups

    We were previously speaking here of backing up your photos, only a month ago. Here is a serious hard disk drive designed for this task:The ioSafe Solo fireproof and waterproof hard drive line with 2TB. Not really cheap at 400$ for 2 tera-bytes, and only a USB 2.0 connection, but it looks sturdy.

  • Montier-en-Der 2009 Festival

    Do not forget the next Wildlife Festival in Montier-en-Der, from November 19 to 22, 2009. http://www.festiphoto-montier.org/

  • Photo fakery in History

    Even before Photoshop was available, some photographers tried to improve their photos. Sometimes, it was to clean little blemishes, but it could go to quite significant upgrades: removing somebody form a group portrait (like with chairman Mao, below), putting a better body under the head of VIP, etc. Source: NY Times.

  • DIY tilt-shift lens

    When you want to go cheap, you’d better be able to build your own devices. For most photographers, a tilt-shit lens is often too expensive for something that you’ll nearly never use. So, why not build your own tilt-shift lens from cheap plumbing parts? Bhautik Joshi did exactly that. $10 for the whole project, including…

  • The ugliest photo camera

    To follow up on a previous post, here are the ugliest photo cameras I could find (with the very active assistance of The Online Photographer, I have to admit):

  • 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.