Photo curiosity

  • The nice Nikon D5000 display

    Have a look at the LCD screen of a Nikon D5000. The Nikon engineers obviously are working at making it look good (much better than the competition). And you can upload a background image, too.

  • Nature and wildlife photography

    Nature photography and wildlife photography are two specialities that can be classified as difficult. Here, nothing beats advice from great photographers. This is why I noticed those two great articles, though they are very different: Mark Godfrey explains on Nature.org how are made some superb nature images. The pictures are permanent in their classic vibrance…

  • Nudes from Marc Hoppe

    Exceptionnally, I am going to present here photographs that may be deemed Not Safe for Work or for a restricted public. However, since they are really elegant and in good taste, I decided to make a little exception and I hope that the Internet censors will not jump out of their box. The nude pictures…

  • New Pentax: Weirder and weirder

    Things are getting more and more difficult to understand in the rumour coming from Shanghai about the possible new Pentax SLR. After a first blurry image, we now get a photo which shows a group of Pentax SLR photo cameras and the one on the left cannot be identified as one of the existing products.…

  • Time lapse 4: Flowers

    To close this week’s series about time lapse videos, here is one of the most classical and traditional subjects: Growing plants and blooming flowers. Lily Time-Lapse in HD from danLinfield on Vimeo. Amaryllis Awakening from David Lanier on Vimeo.

  • New rumours: Nikon D400 & Nikon D750

    DigitalRev shows the latest news in terms of rumours about the future SLR cameras from Nikon (to be named, Nikon D400 and Nikon D750). You’d expect more transparency: They gorgeously present them as if they were real products, while it’s only nice colours and pictures for the basest rumours of the moment (the name of…

  • Canon EOS 500D available

    We start to see a few Canon EOS 500D on the shelves of vendors. This is the right time to open the box at 1854. Flickr slideshow

  • Time lapse 3: Nights and stars

    There is no doubt that time lapse videos made of pictures taken at long time intervals and stitched into a a single video, require mastering a difficult technique. But waht about doing it at night shooting the starry sky? Everything gets more difficult. So, kudos go to SkyTimeLapse!

  • New blurry Pentax SLR is seen

    We know from multiple sources that Pentax is preparing a new digital SLR photo camera that could be bringing a number of surprises including a significant change in the body form. Rice High has actually found on a Chinese forum a blurry image that would be showing part of a new Pentax SLR photo camera.…