Category: Use

  • Emma Livingston, abstraction

    Once again, a photographer reaches out and touches my heart with abstraction or near-abstraction: Emma Livingston. Also go and visit her web site to see her more recent tree portraits. Emma Livingston is British, born in Paris and living in Buenos Aires.

  • Carlan Tapp and the TVA disaster

    Photography is not only a graphical art, this is alo sa mean to speak about the world, about men and women. And, sometimes, it becomes a mean of action. In our world where Earth is suffering from the acts of a few people, Carlan Tapp uses his photo camera to speak about the pollution created…

  • 13 photography lessons for your child

    Thanks to Digital Photography School. They have marvelously varied and nice lessons for the amateur photographer. Today, I noticed a rather old post on their site which is a compendium of the best, most important lessons to teach somebody starting photography (aged from 7 to 77 years). 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital…

  • Canon EOS 5D Mk II firmware update

    Canon has released firmware v1.1.0 for the EOS 5D Mark II. It enables manual control of ISO, aperture and shutter speed while the camera is set to capture video. More information Links to download firmware v1.10 PDF manual about how to use the new features in English/French/Spanish PDF manual about how to use the new…

  • Similarity search engine

    Some time ago we had presented the excellent TinEye search engine which is able to do search-by-similarity on images (you give it an image and it will find all similar images: cropped, reframed, slightly modified). Very useful to track pirates, copiers and illegal uses of your photos. Several other products or in-development technologies also exist,…

  • Miguel Angel de Arriba

    As a matter of fact, I discovered Miguel de Arriba through his nature images. I was struck by the simplicity of their construction. But the image I present here is a bit different. Composition is well understood, of course. But I was immediately immersed in the immensity of the sky. The plane is nearly lost,…

  • 5 lessons for photo self-improvement

    After all, if you come here, you must be interested in photography. It is quite possible that -like me- you want to improve your day-to-day routine and become a better photographer. Don’t believe that you must be born with the photographer’s gene. It’s something that you grow into. photo credit: Dave-F almost retired Here are…

  • Stephen Alvarez at NatGeo

    Stephen Alvarez, one of the very first portfolios featured on YLovePhoto, amazing photographer of caves and dark places, has just placed a full series on the National Geographic web site, under the title of “Deep South“. Recommended visit.

  • Solutions to photographer’s block

    Some photographers may have « writer’s block » (or photographer’s block, more acurately) and feel that they no longer want to shoot pictures. I found two answers to this problem on the Internet. The first one is a a series of advice by Photocritic: 10 ways to prevent photographer’s block. 100-step challenge: Walk 100 steps,…