Category: Use

  • Infrared (IR) photograhy

    During the analog years of photography, it was possible to photograph pictures taken in the Infrared part of the light spectrum. Quite often, it led to a images that were simultaneously eerie looking (for the shift in colors) and slightly blurred by a reduced quality/resolution. It was only a matter of buying an IR filter…

  • Stages of a photographer

    Found at RobertBenson.com, here is probably the best description of how a photographer evolves in time (from larva to beautiful butterfly, one would say). You may be any location on this evolution chart, but it’s good to recognize that you still have the possibility to move forward to the right of the graph. Stages of…

  • Photograph a lightning

    During the warmest days of the Northern hemisphere, it is more pleasant to go and photograph the stars or even the storm coming at the end of a day too hot. The PhotoArgus web site will tell you all about it: Lightning, a photography primer.

  • Flickr group for the friends of YLovePhoto

    I just started a small experimentation. For those of you who may be interested, I opened a Flickr group under the name of YLovePhoto. Instead of making a sort of closed beta test upon invitation only, I chose to open the doors widely. The operation may still be a bit imprecise during a few weeks…

  • A batch of Lightroom links

    In this fire storm of Lightroom special links, you will find a lot of articles coming from the excellent Digital Photography School web site whose tutorials are definitely on my best-of list. How to Remove Sensor Dust With Lightroom Adventure Photographer Tyler Stableford’s Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Workflow (Video on YouTube) 10 de los mejores…

  • New firmware for Canon 7D

    Canon just announced the availability of a new firmware (v1.2.2) for the Canon EOS 7D. Main features: Fixes a phenomenon in which the set aperture moves when shooting movies in manual exposure mode using some Canon lenses (such as macro lenses). Fixes the AF point-selection behavior of the C.Fn III-7 (Manual AF pt. selec. pattern)…

  • New firmware for Canon EOS 550D & EOS 1D Mark-IV

    photo credit: eirikso Canon launches two new firmwares (surprisingly, both hold the same version number v1.0.8, but they are really two different firmwares split at birth for two different cameras). For the Canon EOS 1D Mk-IV, this is the correction of a bug around the aperture management in video mode. For the Canon EOS 550D,…

  • An iPhone for fashion photography

    After that, don’t tell me that the iPhone 3GS is not really a camera. Vimeo link Of course, the final photos have been edited in Photoshop afterwards, but isn’t it the case for all studio work?

  • Emyr Pugh

    Emyr Pugh is both linguist and photographer, an unusual association which visibly gives him a tight link to people he meets, all the more in Mongolia where he lives. His web site, www.dogfen.com (‘dogfen’ is the Welsh word for ‘documentary’) is a window on Peoples and Humanity. Moreover, the great generosity of Emyr leads him…