Photo curiosity
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Photoshop is everywhere on the Internet
As usual, I found some links to guide the Photoshop-equipped photographer. German photographers are slightly favored this time. Photoshop: Panoramabilder entzerren How to Reduce Your Depth of Field in Photoshop Camera Raw 6 : accentuer la netteté Learn the basics of color focus editing in Photoshop CS5 Photoshop Tutorial Mine : from image to flickr…
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More iPhone 4 than Nikon D90 on Flickr
Flickr just published some data showing that the most commonly used camera on the photo sharing web site is no longer the Nikon D90. It has been overtaken by the iPhone 4. Source: Thanks to Boing Boing.
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Google competing with TinEye
Do you remember TinEye? This is the company which has been offering since a few years an image search service where you show a photo (or a picture) and they find copies on the web (useful for the photographers). This can also help you find the original (useful for webmasters). TinEye was always a little…
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CompactDrive PD70x / HyperDrive HD80 firmware
Some people still know about the CompactDrive PD70x Flash card reader. During a long time, it has been considered as the fastest portable hard drive to copy your flash cards to a hard disk. Unfortunately, being a relatively bulky product and no longer supported makes it a problem for the owners still wishing to make…
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Sony A77 & A65 – stolen images
SonyAlphaRumors.com got a nice photo of the upcoming Sony Alpha 77 that is expected to be the successor to the (now) old sony Alpha 700. This is still a rumor coming from a leaked image, but it looks like one of the most accurate information up to now. This is the confirmation of the tilt-and-swivel…
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Michael Kircher
Often, shooting a photography is a matter of choosing the angle. This is confirmed by the flying heron photograph presented to us by Michael Kircher. Here is a bird shot from high above (while birds tend to appear from below to us, mere mortals). Nevertheless, it is shot against a patch of blue sky (which…
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5 tips for concert photography (and more)
This month, YLovePhoto will try an help in shooting photos where many think that only a pro can succeed: A live music concert. This is where many a difficulty converge to make the work of the photographer more painful. However, experience shows that a few tips (Y-tips, of course) will help a lot. Most of…
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Aurora borealis
Terje Sorgjerd spent a week in the cold nights of Kirkenes and Pas National Park (near Russia) to collect images of the aurora borealis phenomenon before assembling them frame-by-frame into a single video. The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
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This is the end for the Sony a290, a390 & a850
Sony made several “end of life” announcements for the Alpha series of DSLR. Two entry-level, the Alpha 290 and Alpha 390 are clearly replaced with the Alpha 35 and Alpha 55. The Alpha 850 is leaving the shelves -as it was expected from a long time- with a progressive price reduction of the Sony Alpha…