Category: Use

  • Calibrate your screen for free

    You’d better use a calibration software with an external sensor, but if you don’t have access to such equipment, it is still possible to do a pretty useful calibration of your screen (and what photographer would not want to improve his computer environment in such a way?) I found two calibration solutions/offers that are easily…

  • Michal Karcz

    A moment of calm in a nature of fantasy. The mere demonstration that the inclusion of a simple element can transform a picture. The site of Michal Karcz.

  • Panoramic photo, tricks

    Photographic panoramas are certainly, with HDR images (high dynamic range), photographiques, avec les images HDR (à haute dynamique), one of the photo techniques that most profited for the arrival of electronic imagery. What seemed reserved to the owners of luxuriously priced and specialized equipment now appears simply an idea to bring variety to your photographic…

  • Photograph hummingbirds

    Hummingbirds are definitely difficult to shoot as anybody who tried will confirm. They move fast, they’re small and somewhat shy. But they are quite nice to see in a picture (and in the wild), and they are specially spectacular if they are caught in mid-flight. This is sometimes seen as a kind of Graal for…

  • Give your digital photos an old frame

    One special use of the Library of Congress collection of historical photos: Transform your photos into old-looking original pictures from a century ago. For this, essentially, you go hunting for a nice looking frame in the LOC collection on Flickr. You will easily find a photo which has the kind of frame you’d like to…

  • Canon EOS 500D, first comments

    After a second half of 2009 where Nikon has been putting a lot of competitive pressure on Canon, here comes the new Canon dSLR photo camera: Canon EOS 500D (also known as Canon Rebel T1i) and, boy! did they react well. The Canon EOS 500D is definitely a great step forward where Canon is redefining…

  • Photoshop brushes for The GIMP

    photo credit: John Flinchbaugh For all of us who would hesitate to use GIMP because of the stock of brushes they collected and use with Photoshop, I like to remind that GIMP supports the Photoshop brushes (in ABR brush file format) from version 2.4. This is limiting the risks and issues to the strict minimum.…

  • 13 photo safari tips

    When you go on a safari tour in order to shoot photos, whatever the organisation, there are a few things that you should always keep in mind, that are very easy to apply and that bring a lot of good results. Here’s my list:   Lion – Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Be ready. Always keep…

  • False HDR for free

    If you want to get an HDR (High Dynamic Range) aspect to your photos but do not want to spend the effort of taking multiple picture and combining them together, there is a free solution: Fake it! Forget all the hassle and apply the right image transformations to obtain a picture with all the features…