Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Coloured cameras
What do they want? How do they think about it? Painting colours onto our photo cameras… Worse, painting them without looking at the result… For a demonstration, check this green camera for the military (Olympus) and this white camera for a wedding day (Leica): They are clearly in competition with the surprising white, green or…
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This month best
Link love Those are the best links found recently: 5 Elements of Composition in Photography: Pattern, Symmetry, Texture, Depth of Field, Lines. 5 More Elements of Composition in Photography: Framing, Perspective, Space, Balance, Color. The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008 A camera obscura can be as large as a room Most-read articles The…
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Story of three photos: 10 tips
Here are three photos I shot last Sunday during a visit to the Lake Der-Chantecoq. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them If you want to only watch the photographs, you can merely ask for a large format print on RedBubble (or a simple card). But I think that the story of these three photos…
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Download Canon EOS 500D manual
Download a Canon EOS 500D user/instructions manual (from Canon Europe) Download a Canon EOS 500D user/instructions manual (from YLovePhoto) Books about the Canon EOS 500D (Amazon.com) Téléchargez un manuel du Canon EOS 500D (depuis Canon Europe) Téléchargez un manuel du Canon EOS 500D (depuis YLovePhoto) The Canon EOS 500D (aka Canon Rebel T1i) owner’s manual…
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Cooking photos
I don’t know about you, but I consider studio photo as one of the most complicated photography techniques (possibly with underwater photos while diving). But in the middle of this general context, photographing dishes to illustrate a book seems to be one of the most difficult specialties. I will not detail the technique, but I…
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Kristina Kotarski
I have been shocked by the beauty of the pictures when I was put in contact with the images on Kristina’s web site. A large part of it comes from the balanced use of water (dew) and light. I wanted to share this emotion with you.
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Nikon D400: April 14th
Everybody says so, everybody repeats it: Nikon will announce its new SLR photo camera, the successor to the D300 in a press event organised on the 14th of April. Let’s try and stay quiet for a week, we’ll see if this is a rumour or a scoop.
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Nikon SLR with a tilt LCD
One participant to the forums of Somethingawful otained a full collection of pictures taken in Croatia during the shooting of a commercial where we can see a guy handling an SLR camera. On some images, it is possible to notice that it’s a Nikon and that it has a tilt-and swivel LCD display. If the…
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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…