Category: Use
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Shooting from a helicopter: The 5+1 best tips
Shooting photos from a helicopter is not your everyday’s experience (even when your name is Philip Plisson). The price for an hour of flight is high enough for ensure that you’ve got all the aces in your hand for a Manhattan island aerial tour, a flight over the Iguazu Falls or a wildlife observation over…
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NASA Hubble pictures: 2 minutes in Photoshop
As a matter of fact, NASA prepares in Photoshop its gorgeous pictures from images taken by the Hubble space telescope. And, within two minutes, you can watch exactly how they do it. I would recommend to run it in slow motion if you really want to catch all the details and each and every step,…
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Links for the studio (with videos)
In these times when photography seems easier and more pleasant inside a house, here is a series of web link intended to satisfy those who practice (or would like to practice) in a studio, using a flash and possibly a tripod: Controlling Your Photo’s Background: Part I and Part II How to photograph 7 wine…
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Nikon D5100 – Order it now!
The Nikon D5100 has just been announced (it is not yet available) and you can already pre-order to be one of the very first to receive it when it will be available (around May 2011). You will be part of a very select club. Amazon USA Nikon D5100 (pre-order) B&H Nikon D5100 Digital SLR Camera…
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America in Color from 1939-1943
This come directly from the archives of the Library of Congress and it is one of the color photopgraphs captured by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. There were very few photographers using color at this time and they document Depression Era for the farmers’ communities. Source: Denver Post blog. The photographs and captions…
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Tamron exhibits your photos
There are many ways to present your photos on the Internet. Most portfolios are very similar. This one is slightly different. Thanks to Tamron My Photo Exhibits, you can organize your pictures in what looks a lot like visiting a public exhibition. This may be a little awkward to use. But it gives a different…
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World Backup Day!
Today is the first World Backup Day as decided by Reddit. And it is a pretty good idea to stress that every digital bit should be regularly backed up. photo credit: Photo Extremist How old is your last backup? Check our articles about the photographer’s backup. Local backup options (External hard disk drive) Local backup…
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Download the Canon EOS 600D user manual
You may have discovered how difficult Canon makes it to find the electronic editions of their SLR photo cameras operator/user manuals. For a recent photo camera like the Canon EOS 600D, this is somewhat even more difficult, and I decided to specially look around for the YLovePhoto readers. Here are the results of my investigations,…
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Elisabeth Taylor, a star goes off
Today, Elisabeth Taylor died at the age of 79. A true star if there was one, she has been the center of attention for many photographers. Elizabeth Taylor8 in. x 10 in.Buy This Allposters.com