Category: Use

  • Lightroom 3.3 & Camera Raw 6.3: Available now

    The new versions of the Adobe software programs for the photographer just arrived. Mainly, they bring support for some gear that was left waiting for compatibility and a nice list of corrected bugs (see at the end of this post). The main news seem to be the added support for the following SLR cameras: Nikon…

  • Christian Bobst

    Christian Bobst

    I love it when a photographer brings a faithful reproduction of his or her travels through the pictures to be shared with his or her audience. With Christian Bobst, this is exactly what I felt when browsing his slideshows. The photo above is extracted from a recent trip to Georgia, but I would also recommend…

  • Lightroom links of love

    Lightroom links of love

    This time, this month, the list of links for Lightroom leaves a lot of space to various languages (not only English). I hope this will be helpful and this will allow you to discover new spaces and new web sites. LR/Mogrify 2 pour Lightroom par Alpha Numérique (en français) Bilder auf eine neue Festplatte migrieren…

  • 4 best tips for new inspiration when you’re dead

    4 best tips for new inspiration when you’re dead

    Sometimes, I need to get new inspiration for my photography. I feel my photography eye is dead. Don’t we all? Here’s what I can do to help start again with fresh ideas, new energy for photography: Open a photo book and start looking for what surprises you and is different from your own work: Different…

  • Underpants: A gift for the camera lover

    Underpants: A gift for the camera lover

    No doubt about that, you must make sure that your other half will find this information in time for buying the best gift for a photo camera lover: underpant boxers with second-hand vintage photo cameras. This is at GAP, it’s everywhere in the wolrd on the Internet, but also in all the GAP shops, in…

  • New firmware for Sony Alpha 850/900: Tomorrow Now confirmed

    photo © 2010 yellowcloud | more info (via: Wylio) Update: This is now confirmed and the firmware can be downloaded freely. According to SonyAlphaRumors.com, Sony will present tomorrow a new version of the firmware for the Sony Alpha 850 and 900 SLR Full Frame photo cameras. It should bring: Faster Autofocus Maximum exposure compensation range:…

  • Summer variations – Vincent Munier

    Summer variations – Vincent Munier

    Shot with the Nikon D3s, by wildlife photographer Vincent Munier. YouTube link

  • Photoshop CS6: a preview of the alpha version

    The future of Photoshop CS6 has been recently shown at MAX2010, the Adobe conference in Los Angeles. YouTube link I believe that the really impressive part of this technical demonstration is the set of automatisms which operate -essentially- by showing the machine an example of the result to reach rather than finding the right settings…

  • Kuwait: DSLR authorized again

    Now, this is good journalism: Kuwait Times has been following on their previous story about a ban imposed onto Digital SLR cameras in Kuwait. Actually, they published a retraction indicating that this was false information. Less surprising, but kudos to them for standing up to good journalism standards: Always check the source information.