Category: Use

  • Zoomable hi-rez photos for your web site

    If you shoot high resolution digital photos, it is nearly impossible to present them to the visitors of your web site in a manageable way: Who would want to download a multi-megabyte file to be forced in using an external application software to watch the details. Closr solves this conundrum by providing you a way…

  • Print your photos on everything

    photo credit: irrezolut A few years ago, the only destination we could think of for our photos was the paper used for most family snapshots. A few photographers were also making large format printouts, but nothing more. With the advent of digital photography, it is now common not to print at all and to look…

  • Jonathan Hyams

    Jonathan Hyams is a Canadian documentary photographer who is bringing us impressive series of pictures illustrating some of the most difficult locations and conditions where people live. His work for OXFAM, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, the New Internationalist, Christian Aid, and UNICEF is shown on photoshelter.com. Here I present you his series about sex…

  • Wildlife photographers, shut up!

    It has been revealed by a scientific study that ecotourists (and certainly wildlife photographers like you and me are falling in this category) are actually much more disturbing to wildlife than initially supposed. As written by New Scientist, “The sound of even a quiet conversation caused the birds [hoatzins in the Amazonian forest] to begin…

  • Lucas Foglia

    Allow me a stop at one set of documentary photos from a reportage of Lucas Foglia around a group of American people who are trying more or less seriously to come back to their wild roots. They call it re-wilding and it happens in the Southeastern United States of America. Out of concerns about the…

  • World images

    Sometimes, pictures are simply amazing. Today, I want to share a few very good images with you. Shockingly beautiful and astonishingly surprising. London by night by Jason Hawkes, brought to us by the excellent Boston.com “The Big Picture” (news stories in pictures). I try to track daily the exceptionally good photos there. Japan factories collected…

  • Daria Endresen

    Daria Endresen, from Norway, gives us nude photographs (she is her own model) that include a fantasy dimension that is most unusual. They speak about solitude and suffering, but not sadness. To have and not to hold So hot, yet so cold My heart is in your hand And yet you never stand Close enough…

  • Nikon D700 user manual

    The Nikon D700 user manual has always been difficult to find on the web. But here we come with the right opportunity to check the features and operation of the D700. Download the Nikon D700 user manual: D700 User manual in English (11.6 MB, PDF file) D700 User manual in Spanish (en Español, 11.6 MB,…

  • Sony Alpha 850, the user manual

    Download the Sony Alpha 850 User Manual copy here. The original is still on the Sony HK web site, but this is VERY slow download.