Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Montier-en-Der 2009 Festival

    Do not forget the next Wildlife Festival in Montier-en-Der, from November 19 to 22, 2009. http://www.festiphoto-montier.org/

  • Phil Bebbington

    Phil Bebbington is a photographer I like because of his mastering of light and his way to render materials. What is specially pleasant is the way he finds a ghost of Man in Nature, like the remnants of Man’s activity in this Missouri field. http://philbebbington.com http://terrorkitten.com/iblog http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrorkitten/

  • End of year coupons and offers

    Since this is time for the end of the year and its high sales of electronic gadgets and photographic gear, here also comes the time for cashbacks, sales and promotions. The photography market will not forget this in these recession times and there are many offers and promotions or bundles. Among the offers I tried…

  • Canon EOS 1D Mk IV, download the user manual

    And now, Canon has revealed the User Manual for the Canon EOS 1D Mk IV. It is available for download. User manual (in English on the Canon Rumors web site) Other languages still to be found It may help you decide whether you want to get it for Christmas.

  • DIY long-distance camera trigger

    DIY This Flickr user, Marco Jetti has a proposal to transform into a long-distance radio-controlled trigger a kit of two talkie-walkies. A little DIY elbow grease and here it is:

  • Photo fakery in History

    Even before Photoshop was available, some photographers tried to improve their photos. Sometimes, it was to clean little blemishes, but it could go to quite significant upgrades: removing somebody form a group portrait (like with chairman Mao, below), putting a better body under the head of VIP, etc. Source: NY Times.

  • Ultra-macro-photo on a telephone

    totally on the opposite side from the use of an SLR camera with a specialized lens, here is an article offering to use the lens stolen from a dead DVD player to transform a mobile phone into a ultra-micrographic photo camera. Apparently, the harder part is to attach the lens to the phone. But then,…

  • DIY tilt-shift lens

    When you want to go cheap, you’d better be able to build your own devices. For most photographers, a tilt-shit lens is often too expensive for something that you’ll nearly never use. So, why not build your own tilt-shift lens from cheap plumbing parts? Bhautik Joshi did exactly that. $10 for the whole project, including…

  • Mountain photography from a small plane

    When you are in a plane of a light plane flying near a mountain range, it is quite tempting to shoot a few landscape photos; But the conditions will stay very difficult for the photographer. There are many traps and the results may loose a lot of quality compared to what you expected. For example,…