Category: Use

  • Nikon D300s user manual

    The Nikon D300s has just been made available that we already offer you the opportunity to see its interest by checking the original/full user manual. Download the Nikon D300s user manual. D300s User manual in English (10.3 MB, PDF file) D300s User manual in Spanish (en Español, 11.0 MB, PDF file) D300s mode d’emploi en…

  • Water splash: The easy way to a great photo

    photo credit: nsaplayer Who did not dream of making such a great photo as the milk or water drop stopped in mid-air? But this seems quite difficult. It may be, but there are a few techniques that can simplify things a little. Gavin Hoey, in the following video, shows a few of them, explaining lighting…

  • Ramin Talaie

    Iran is a country were AIDS is as present as anywhere else, but probably less officially recognized. About 85% of Afghanistan opium production is trafficked through Iran to Turkey and Eastern Europe, but leaves its trace on Iran, too. Persopolis, the only NGO of its kind in Iran, provides food and clothing and distributes clean…

  • Batch-resize your photos

    If you need to resize a bunch of pictures (for example, before publishing them on the web), it is a pain in the neck to collect them all and play with the Photoshop commands. For Windows users, here is a utility program that does exactly this in a nice way: All files of a directory,…

  • Backup for the photographer – part 1

    Any digital photographer is quickly confronted with the bane of computer memory. At first, you notice that you need a lot of DRAM memory to edit your pictures (using Photoshop for example). The solution is easily found: Add more memory (Here come 4 GB of DRAM!) Then, you discover that all those 20 MP pictures…

  • Audrey Bardou

    A very beautiful documentary about Life, Death, Humanity and those we no longer see. A last place of life « Today we can live longer, yes but how? »   –       November 25th, 2004: my grandfather is placed in a old people’s home. Marcel Bardou, my grandfather, 92 years old and widower for 7 years, has been…

  • Download Canon EOS 5D MkII user manual

    Were you looking for the EOS 5D MkII instruction manual? It is available for free download. You can find it: EOS 5D Mark II Instruction Manual from Canon USA Manuel d’instructions du modèle EOS 5D Mark II en français depuis le site de Canon Canada

  • Willy Ronis is dead

    You may remember some of his best black and white photos which allowed to meet humanity at its best. Or you may have heard his last Summer’s interview of Guy le Querrec on France Culture. Source: Le Monde.

  • Photo gear on a budget

    Michael Zhang has a good set of advice to provide to help us all buy a lot of pro camera gear on a student budget. This is quite attractive because most photo enthusiasts quickly notice that the only limitation to our photo expenses is the money we can invest into it. Let’s admit it, there…