Photo curiosity

  • Epson Pano Awards 2016

    Epson Pano Awards 2016

    A photo contest I particularly like, the Epson Pano Award, just released its list of 2016 winners. You will find superb images,: In panoramic format (sometimes, even vertical ones), avec a clear taste for abstraction (it’s more than OK with me), and a notable attention to Architecture and Nature (no contradiction here, you’ll see). Go and…

  • Adobe Bridge for free

    Adobe Bridge for free

    One of the most attracting features of the Adobe Photoshop CC suite of photographic tools is its image management tool which allows sorting, ordering, labeling and most important -to my eyes- comparing several pictures in order to choose the best one. Yes, I have the (bad?) habit of shooting in rapid fire when I’m photographing wildlife, but…

  • Pre-flight checklist for photographers

    Pre-flight checklist for photographers

    Travelling for photography is an activity loaded with stresses and constraints of all kinds. Much more so than if you merely go and shoot street photography downtown. All the more if this includes at least one flight to destination. Pros and those who did suffer a lot from these situations collected enough experience to build…

  • Security on YLovePhoto

    Security on YLovePhoto

    Minor technical information for those of you who are sensitive to their online safety. One of the recommended steps to a better privacy and safety is using web site under the SSL protocol (accessing them with https:// instead of http://). Now, YLovePhoto helps you and can be transparently accessed through both addresses: https://www.YLovePhoto.com/ http://www.YLovePhoto.com/   For…

  • WiFi comes to Canon 7D Mark II

    WiFi comes to Canon 7D Mark II

    With the newest firmware upgrade, Canon finally brings the promised capacity to use the W-E1 WiFi card-shaped adapter to the 7D Mark II body. Firmware v1.1.0 new features/changes: Supports WiFi adapter W-E1. Adds a setting to enable or disable automatic storage of the lens, if it is extended out when a gear-driven STM lens is attached,…

  • RAW or JPEG?

    RAW or JPEG?

    It seems that this question will always be there to haunt photographers (enthiusiasts and pros as well as mere amateurs). You should believe that the answer is complicated and prone to errors. Or that the issues are so thorny that nobody can answer. Again this month, I walked by a pro photographer on a mission…

  • Canon EOS 5D MkIV ready for download

    Canon EOS 5D MkIV ready for download

    The Canon EOS 5D MkIV user manual started being available from several sources. Download the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV user manual in English Télécharger le mode d’emploi du Canon EOS 5D Mark IV en français Descargar el manual de usuario del Canon EOS 5D Mark IV en español Happy reading.

  • Download the Pentax K-1 user manual

    Download the Pentax K-1 user manual

    You can now get the Pentax K-1 user manual in several languages right from Internet: Pentax K-1, Operating Manual (English) Pentax K-1, Manual de Instrucciones Mode d’emploi du Pentax K-1 en français Have fun reading these Pentax K-1 documents.

  • Nikon D500 user manuals – ready for download

    Nikon D500 user manuals – ready for download

    You can get the Nikon D500 user manual (or more precisely “manuals”, since there are several of them on the Nikon web site now): User’s Manual English (for customers in Europe) User’s Manual English (for customers in the Americas) User’s Manual English (for customers in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa) Benutzerhandbuch (Deutsch) Руководство…