Following our previous article about online backup for the photographer’s files (which ended up with a recommendation of Mozy Backup), it could be noticed that Lifehacker published an article on a similar subject (but in more general terms) and recommends the following 5 tools: CrashPlan (Windows/Mac/Linux/Open Solaris, Basic [No online storage] Free, Premium [Unlimited] $4.50…
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World Powers Photos
Pendant la session d’ouverture des Nations Unies en septembre dernier à New York, Platon, photographe pour le New Yorker et connu pour quelques portraits réussis de Poutine par exemple, a installé un studio dans l’immeuble des Nations Unis pour y photographier les grands de ce monde qui passaient là. Il a maintenant rassemblé ces photographies…
How a seal tried to feed Paul Nicklen
YouTube link The leopard seal is really a big predator (check its size on the photos) and it’s perfectly adapted to its environment (much more than a man in a diving suit). But this one, not only let National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen shoot great pictures, but tried to help him by feeding him live…
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/
Premium repair for Sony
Sony will soon offer (at the end of October) a Premium service for after-sales and warranty. It will target pros and top-flight amateur photographers. For a period of one, two or three years (at the price of 109, 219 or 329€), the customer will get a warranty extension (directly from Sony Style Georges V or…
All about backups for the photographer
As a summary for the recent series of posts about options open to the digital photographer willing to protect his/her picture files (i.e. backup all photo files), here is a table of contents that should help you find again all solutions I presented over the last 4 weeks. Local backup options (External hard disk drive)…
Backup for the photographer – part 4 & conclusions
Previously, we just scraped the surface of what can be done to archive and backup large amounts of photographic data. While the local storage (hard disc drives and optical drives) are fine, they are not solid enough to protect against all kinds of accidents that we want to be able to sustain. So, we started…
Backup for the photographer – part 3
After exploring the external hard drive and optical drive backup options available to photographers willing to protect their images from accidental damage, let’s see what on-line storage options we have. These all have the advantage of protecting your backup against one aspect of risk management: There is no longer a risk of seeing a local…
Sports photography
Shooting good pictures of sports events is challenging at best. Rob Miracle is offering good advice about sports photography, grouped in several important categories: Location, Location, Location! The Decisive Moment Required Equipment Depth of Field — Isolating the subject Focus Composition Know your Sport, Know your Players Freezing Action Shots Giving the illusion of movement…
Backup for the photographer – part 2
We have been looking into the most obvious option for the photographer willing to backup its large amount of data: The local storage on an external hard drive. Nearly everyone of us at least tried to use this approach. But it is worth trying to understand that there are other very good options that I…
Canon UK promotion on DSLR cameras
Canon UK announced that they are opening a cash-back program for photographic students of various UK institutions. Teachers, lecturers and technicians in the same institutions will also be eligible. The cash-back on the EOS 450D configurations amounts to £50, whereas it climbs to £65 on a Canon EOS 500D. It will run until 31 October…
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…
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.
Take photo to a pro level
If you are decided to take your passion to the level of a profession, if you want to become a pro photographer and to earn money from your art, you could not do a better thing than to subscribe to the Photopreneur blog. Day by day, week by week, real pros will be teaching you…
Could I get your photo for free?
This is a question more common than you would think. And this is the worst situation for a pro-photographer: All these people who would want the artwork fro nothing. And would we dare discuss/bargain/complain/negotiate the same way with some other professions? YouTube link
HDR Imaging applied to Paleontological specimen photography
If you are interested in HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging, it may be fun to look at a scientific paper from Jessica M. Theodor and Robin S. Furr, in Palaeontologia Electronica. There, scientists interested in the best possible representation of paleontological specimens describe how to use HDR photography when taking scientific pictures. Source: Palaeontologia Electronica
Time lapse 5: Moon eclipse
Sometimes, the time-lapse collation of images does not lead to a video, but to a complex picture. Like this one from NASA. A Time-Lapse Lunar Eclipse Credit & Copyright: Forrest J. Egan (Digital Astro) Explanation: During a lunar eclipse, our Moon appeared to disappear. As the Earth moved between the Moon and the Sun, the…
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…
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…
20 photo How-To guides
I have been amazed at the number of tutorials and how-to guides that exist on the Internet. You could drown into them… So, I decided to try and sort it out for you. Here are Photo-related How-To Guides selected for the choice they offer. Photography (general) eHow – Cameras category HowToDoThings.com – Digital Cameras Instructables.com…
Ritz Camera stores going down
Ritz Camera, the largest US retail photography chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It’s not the first one, but the size of it is impressive: 800 photo stores in 40 states, operating as Ritz Camera, Wolf Camera, Kits Cameras, Inkley’s and The Camera Shops going MIA… Nikon and Canon are clearly at the…
Cameras delayed for fear of recession
Crisis, recession, deflation, financial crush, layoffs are all words that we hear about on a daily basis. Whatever you feel/think about them, there is a reality: the consumers are buying less. This is as true for photo hardware and software as for the other markets (maybe it’s worse for cars…) Now, this has a clear…
Obama shot by Gigapan
Gigapan is this tripod and equipment set used to shot semi-automatically a set of pictures that will be stitched together in a major picture made of billions of pixels. David Bergman brought one to the Washington’s inaugural address of Barack Obama. With its small Canon G10, it shot 220 images, brought them to a Macbook…
Canon for Obama
Barrack Obama is the first American president who had his official portrait shot by a digital camera. Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer, shot the picture with a Canon EOS 5D MkII.
Photo reporter in a riot
You may never have to do it, but it is a kind of experience that only an excellent pro reporter could deliver: How to cover a riot. John Camp (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) gives us the essentials about shooting photos in this kind of high-tension, fast-action environment. The photographer (pro or amateur) does not want to…