Category: Use

  • Phil Bebbington

    Phil Bebbington is a photographer I like because of his mastering of light and his way to render materials. What is specially pleasant is the way he finds a ghost of Man in Nature, like the remnants of Man’s activity in this Missouri field. http://philbebbington.com http://terrorkitten.com/iblog http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrorkitten/

  • Canon EOS 1D Mk IV, download the user manual

    And now, Canon has revealed the User Manual for the Canon EOS 1D Mk IV. It is available for download. User manual (in English on the Canon Rumors web site) Other languages still to be found It may help you decide whether you want to get it for Christmas.

  • DIY long-distance camera trigger

    DIY This Flickr user, Marco Jetti has a proposal to transform into a long-distance radio-controlled trigger a kit of two talkie-walkies. A little DIY elbow grease and here it is:

  • Ultra-macro-photo on a telephone

    totally on the opposite side from the use of an SLR camera with a specialized lens, here is an article offering to use the lens stolen from a dead DVD player to transform a mobile phone into a ultra-micrographic photo camera. Apparently, the harder part is to attach the lens to the phone. But then,…

  • DIY tilt-shift lens

    When you want to go cheap, you’d better be able to build your own devices. For most photographers, a tilt-shit lens is often too expensive for something that you’ll nearly never use. So, why not build your own tilt-shift lens from cheap plumbing parts? Bhautik Joshi did exactly that. $10 for the whole project, including…

  • Mountain photography from a small plane

    When you are in a plane of a light plane flying near a mountain range, it is quite tempting to shoot a few landscape photos; But the conditions will stay very difficult for the photographer. There are many traps and the results may loose a lot of quality compared to what you expected. For example,…

  • Download Adobe Lightroom 3 for free

    Actually, Lightroom 3 is in beta phase and you can get a beta version for free until April 30th 2010. It already seems like a very long time and if you wanted to test it or to discover this good photographic software, it may be time for it. But, please, remember that even if this…

  • Several firmware updates

    These last days, plenty of photo camera manufacturers announced updated and corrections to the firmware of their photo cameras. Uncanny… Pentax K-7 : site Pentax UK Canon EOS 7D : Canon web site Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D : Canon web site And we are told that Canon prépares a big firmware update to bring full…

  • Jared Moossy

    Jared Moossy is a documentary photographer. I was stopped by his series about Afghanistan (Jared spent a large part of 2009 in Kabul) because of the dynamics in his pictures. Far from the standardized war witness with its so-usual documentary view, and far from the normative needs of international press, he puts your mind in…