Category: Use
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Venice carnival
Today starts the Venice Carnival. We already saw a lot of these photos, but they are still really marvelous, aren’t they? photo © 2010 US Army Africa | more info (via: Wylio) photo © 2008 Nicolò Bonazzi | more info (via: Wylio) photo © 2010 US Army Africa | more info (via: Wylio) photo ©…
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Don’t take photos, make photos
This lovely quote from Ansel Adams, famous American landscape photographer of the XIXth Century,must drive us from being passive in front of the photos. Not taking photos is refusing to simply press the shutter button because we have seen something. Making a photo is a matter of attitude, being constructive in front of all pictures.…
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Apple Digital Camera RAW enhances compatibility with new cameras
This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto 2011: Canon EOS Rebel T3 / EOS 1100D / Kiss X50 Canon EOS Rebel T3i / EOS 600D / Kiss X5 Olympus E-5 Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 Pentax K-r Pentax K-5 It also addresses processing issues for the following cameras: Nikon…
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6 tips for Winter Photography
Cold weather is back and if you have fortitude, you will go out and shoot in the frozen light of Winter. Animals are slow, easier to approach (but limit yourself to reasonable distances to avoid frightening the animals out of their nest; By this weather, it could be a death sentence on your conscience). Landscapes…
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Breaking a Pentax Spotmatic F apart is still art
Todd Mclellan has broken an old Pentax Spotmatic F to make a visual representation of its entrails. The simplest things make a nice little piece of photography.
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New reviews for all SLR cameras
I know I shouldn’t have waited so long (2 months), but today’s batch of additions is no less than 26 new in-depth reviews for all the Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung and Sony cameras. To find your load of updated review lists, just use the link at the top left of the web site “SLR…
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Gustave Le Gray
For once, I will change from contemporary photographers to present the reproduction of a specially ancient photograph taken on a glass negative and printed on albumen silver paper. From the beginnings of photography, pioneers had to find and discover techniques that we are essentially applying without even thinking about it. Gustave Le Gray was one…
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Daniel Winters
Photographing a show is quite a difficult exercise, but when it is about performing arts or dance, there are many opportunities. So, I appreciated a lot Daniel Winters work with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. YLovePhoto: What -according to you- makes a good or a bad photographer?Daniel Winters: A good photographer uses a…
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Photoshop links
I know that there are plenty of people using Adobe Photoshop. Here comes the time for your list of links to resources that could be useful to you (and me), this time with a large representation of the excellent tutorials from Digital Photography School (but not only them). Smarter sharpening with the High Pass filter…