Category: Use
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Aurora borealis
Terje Sorgjerd spent a week in the cold nights of Kirkenes and Pas National Park (near Russia) to collect images of the aurora borealis phenomenon before assembling them frame-by-frame into a single video. The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
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Firmware upgrade for Sony A33 & A55
Sony is also announcing that some of the new features of the Sony Alpha 35 will be made available for the older Sony Alpha 33 and Sony Alpha 55. Support for the ‘Picture Effect’ function featured on the new α35 High-Speed Synch is supported during wireless operation with a compatible external flash (α55 only) Revised…
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Markus Bruckner
Some photographs are more challenging than others and it has been a long time since I decided to include one of them here. Markus Bruckner offered an excellent opportunity with a great work which is fully abstract despite being real photography. The Real Stripes series was shot in 2008/2009 (published in 2009). It was shot…
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Everything for the Linux photographer
digiKam special! This nice software program has earned its own sub-list of links because of its own quality: Introduction to Digikam Finetune digiKam by Tweaking Its Settings Find the Shutter Count Value with digiKam Publish Photos on a WordPress blog from Digikam Additionally, some users may want to also have Digikam running on Windows (even…
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Jon Cornforth
Colorful landscapes and vivid wildlife photographs. This is Jon Cornforth’s style of photography. Actually, I selected on mountain scape that shows what comes from time spent watching nature best face. Jon Conforth web site.
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Vibrations of the photo camera
Today, technology allows us to minimize camera vibrations (through sensor displacement or lens optical element moves, depending on the brand you use). But there is nothing better than avoid vibrations from the beginning. Camera Technica did a thorough comparative test observing directly the vibration induced by various shutter triggers: Normal: Shutter pressed by the photographer’s…
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Make sure your photo camera is stolen
You have a new photo camera, you go on a photo trip far off, you join a public event, but you want to bring back an imperishable memory: Put all the aces in your hand to ensure that your photo camera will be stolen as soon as possible. It pumps adrenaline up, it helps find…
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GIMP links are back
After a long absence when we collected a few GIMP-related links but we did not publish them, here is a new list of useful tutorials and tricks for the users of GIMP the GNU-Linux and Windows-based photo edition software. GIMP still being free, these free resources are all the more welcome: photo credit: andyspictures 60+…
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Stuart Griffiths
Stuart Griffiths is a photographer who, like so many other documentary photographers, excels in reaching out to a large scope of various subjects. Working repeatedly on projects which involved meeting with people who are army crazy, which in his eyes is something quite strange, he built a rather strange portfolio (“Army Barmy“) where you will…