Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Clean hot pixels from RAW files

    It is sometimes unpleasant to discover a little annoying problem like a defective pixel on the sensor of a digital photo camera. It produces a small colored pixel (often black or white, sometimes of some other color). On a RAW file, it could be worse if it produces a colored streak. It is most visible…

  • Per-Anders Pettersson

    Africa is a place where the world is changing, maybe faster than elsewhere in the world and photographers are trying to document the changes. Per-Anders Pettersson went to South Africa and Congo and his web site has some echoes of the shouts of the people torn in these wide moves. A busy street corner where…

  • Database update

    For those who did not notice it, I updated significantly the list of reviews and tests of the SLR photo cameras appearing in the D-SLR database on YLovePhoto.com. An excellent way to guide yourself in the maze of cameras before buying yours.

  • Three cheap image hosting services

    Ars Technica has a nice little post comparing three image online hosting and sharing options: Flickr Picasa Photobucket They do not conclude which one is better, merely provide a view about the differences. Good reading.

  • Stars: Both a portfolio and a DIY tutorial

    At first, Peter Shah seems to be the usual astronomy photographer. He goes out at night to look at the sky with a photo camera and a very big lens on a tripod. This is actually wrong. Peter Shah is actually a perfectionist. Where most amateur astronomers learned to grind a mirror by themselves in…

  • A gun to protect your photo luggage

    photo credit: Tanozzo This is the surprising advice given by Bruce Schneier about how you could protect your photo luggage when traveling: Pack a starter gun in your luggage. This is definitely considered as a weapon by the TSA and other flight authorities (but it is not dangerous and you don’t need a license to…

  • YLovePhoto news

    I will not be available during the next fifteen days. The posts published on YLovePhoto will have been prepared in advance, will be reduced in frequency and will not be news as such, during this period of time when I will be chasing Botswana’s wild life with my tele-lens.

  • Mark Twain, 100 years later

    “You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus” – Mark Twain           Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[3] well-known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884),…

  • Maxim Mayorov

    There is something against trying to cram too many pixels into a camera When Maxim received his Sony Alpha 200, it was in pretty bad shape. Most people would have merely returned it. Maxim Mayorov, as a true photographer would do, took the opportunity for a studio shot with an unusual model. All the shots…