Category: Use

  • Batch-resize your photos

    If you need to resize a bunch of pictures (for example, before publishing them on the web), it is a pain in the neck to collect them all and play with the Photoshop commands. For Windows users, here is a utility program that does exactly this in a nice way: All files of a directory,…

  • Backup for the photographer – part 1

    Any digital photographer is quickly confronted with the bane of computer memory. At first, you notice that you need a lot of DRAM memory to edit your pictures (using Photoshop for example). The solution is easily found: Add more memory (Here come 4 GB of DRAM!) Then, you discover that all those 20 MP pictures…

  • Audrey Bardou

    A very beautiful documentary about Life, Death, Humanity and those we no longer see. A last place of life « Today we can live longer, yes but how? »   –       November 25th, 2004: my grandfather is placed in a old people’s home. Marcel Bardou, my grandfather, 92 years old and widower for 7 years, has been…

  • Download Canon EOS 5D MkII user manual

    Were you looking for the EOS 5D MkII instruction manual? It is available for free download. You can find it: EOS 5D Mark II Instruction Manual from Canon USA Manuel d’instructions du modèle EOS 5D Mark II en français depuis le site de Canon Canada

  • Willy Ronis is dead

    You may remember some of his best black and white photos which allowed to meet humanity at its best. Or you may have heard his last Summer’s interview of Guy le Querrec on France Culture. Source: Le Monde.

  • Photo gear on a budget

    Michael Zhang has a good set of advice to provide to help us all buy a lot of pro camera gear on a student budget. This is quite attractive because most photo enthusiasts quickly notice that the only limitation to our photo expenses is the money we can invest into it. Let’s admit it, there…

  • James Cooper

    James Cooper images are haunting. But as he said: “I don’t want my images to be at all ‘tricky’ or ‘ deceptive’ , so hopefully its pretty obvious how I did it. But its a ‘living sculpture’ made with my friend Johanna , some pink string and some pieces of foam cut from boat cushions…

  • Canon EOS 7D User Manual

    Here it is! The User Manual for the new Canon EOS 7D is available for your download. If you want to read it to decide whether this SLR camera is your next camera, the answer is here: In English: Canon EOS 7D user manual or here In French: Manuel d’instructions du modèle EOS 7D en…

  • Jay Kuhlmann

    I invite you to check Jay Kuhlmann documentary photo work. He is traveling through most of Middle East and shows us the faces of men and women living in this part of the world so often in the spot lights of news. I selected more specifically a set of pictures from Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon.…