Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Photojournalism

    You are a photojournalist, you want to become a photojournalist, you are curious about the life and methods of photojournalism pros? You could well be interested to visit the following web sites: American Photojournalist (for photojournalists, by photojournalists): Featured photos, featured photographers, and news. Lightstalkers is written for the these photographers, journalists who will recognize…

  • Tutorials for The GIMP

    GIMP tutorials is exactly what you would expect: task-oriented how-to guides for The GIMP graphic software. I specially like the simplest ones: How To Make An Icon From A Picture Creative Composition Split-toning in GIMP Adding life into a Flat Photograph

  • Pentax next moves

    Were you waiting for news from Pentax, maybe in the shape of a Pentax K30D? We will have to wait together. This is DC.Watch.Impress who was able to interview Taku Sendai, Product planning manager at Hoya (Pentax mother company). First of all, we get the confirmation that the 645 range of large format cameras will…

  • This month best

    Link love Those are the best links found recently: Ligue des sites naturalistes extraordinaires to see a lot of animal photos [in French, but it’s OK] Teleconverters (Multipliers) – A technical overview from Bob Atkins Selling your Photos as Wallpaper describes all about the success of a photographer who is selling his photos as a…

  • Fractalius

    Fractalius is one of the most surprising Photoshop plugins. It allows the creation of exceptionnally interesting and complex pictures like the following “fractal lion”. I think that they may have discovered this by pure luck. But, it’s definitely beautiful.

  • The end of the pixel war?

    This is going to be considered either as the boldest move in years for a whole industry, or the dumbest moment in the career of a doomed photo executive. Akira Watanabe, manager of Olympus Imaging’s SLR planning department, in an interview given to CNet at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) fair, said: “We have no…

  • Discontinued cameras at Leica and Nikon

    Surprisingly, the PMA fair has been the opportunity to announce not only new products, but also the death of some others. The most prominent ones: Leica announces the end of its R-Series manual focus SLR cameras. Probably to be replaced by something else at the same level. Nikon has now discontinued the Nikon D40, after…

  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1

    Panasonic launches a new photo camera to follow in the tracks of the existing Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1. For the most part, the new Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 is a G1 that would have been upgraded to Mark II status by a video capture feature. This was clearly a relatively easy addition to a good camera. And…

  • Canon EOS 500D for Summer

    So, it is official and for everybody to see: There is no Canon EOS 500D to see in the PMA 2009 in Las Vegas. Some of us who could be troubled by this delay applied to the newest bright entry-level SLR camera from Canon (Nikon has been putting a lot of pressure on them lately)…