Category: Use

  • Why you don’t need an expensive camera

    The question is often asked, even more in the context of YLovePhoto and its information about expert photo cameras: “Do I need an expensive camera?” and the answer is most often that the expensive new features are mostly useless. For example, ISO sensitivity is over-rated. Today’s performance levels are so high that, out of specialty…

  • Ransom Riggs

    I stopped by the web site of Ransom Riggs because of a picture series coming from the Mojave Desert Airplane Graveyard (probably throwback from the engineer in me, who is sensitive both to the esthetism of time degradation and to the complexity of technology even when it is slightly outdated) where I extracted the following…

  • Find the user manual for your SLR camera

    If you are looking for the User Manual of an SLR camera, any SLR camera, things can be difficult. Just remember that you can look at the manufacturer web site but it could be tough since some of them do not show everything for download, or not all in the same download web site. You…

  • Transform GIMP into a free Photoshop clone

    GIMP is an excellent image edition software which could (should?) attract all those who do not want to pay the full price of Photoshop, while they work with Apple, Windows or Linux. the differences are real, but the most obvious one is certainly the interface (and Adobe clearly did a nice work on it). So,…

  • Rémi Garcia

    Who said that panoramas can only come from landscape photography? Who said that a panoramic format should be limited to a continuous picture? Rémi Garcia is seeing things differently and his gallery of panorama photos is definitely worth visiting because it is eye-opening to the possibilities available to the photographer merely wishing to fill such…

  • The rule of thirds, soon to be enforced

    In composition, it is often considered that putting objects of interest on the key attention points helps build more powerful images. Daniel Cohen-Or and Lior Wolf at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, with colleagues at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, created a software program that automatically re-organizes photos to make them more powerful, more pleasing. NS link…

  • Aviary goes free

    Aviary, one of the best online graphics edition software, just changed its pricing model. Instead of the subscriptions previously used, they went for a new price structure: 100% free. Supported by new financial partners, they offer their tools for free. Impressive free tool suite. The announcement on the Aviary blog.

  • Underwater photography

    Underwater photography is a technique specifically difficult to master. As in all other photography genres, there are some parameters to take into account in order to create a nice picture (even if a good technician is not enough to produce great photos). More than in any other photography types, you have to adapt to a…

  • Brian Bielmann

    Initially, I wanted to show a wave photo from Brian Bielmann. He is spending a lot of time in the water shooting big waves, surfers, underwater wonders, etc. I still recommend you visit his web site for these, but I stopped at a very small wave: