Photo curiosity

  • Jim Patterson

    Jim Patterson

    Jim Patterson‘s photography is a colorful one, a joyful one. The eye is pleased be it in front of his landscape portfolio or in front of his underwater photography portfolio. Technically speaking, for the Joshua Tree National Park picture displayed here, he used “a 30 second exposure at ISO 800 in order to get the…

  • Server maintenance

    Over the next two days, the web site may see some perturbation. We are changing the server in order to avoid a possible risk of disk failure and to bring some needed additional performance. We will try our best to ensure that this will be as invisible as possible, buy I apologize in advance for…

  • Without the user manual

    As if it was still possible to use our cameras without the user manual… YouTube link Thanks to PetaPixel.

  • Widen your horizons with Aperture

    The Apple software program, Aperture, has many fans. But, it had been a long time since I last grouped and presented my prefered links toward tutorials, tips-and-tricks and idaas. So, here is a full shipment of them to go further with Aperture: Tipp Aperture 3: Thumbnails kompakter machen spart enorm viel Speicherplatz (in deutscher Sprache)…

  • Laurent Baheux

    I don’t doubt that some of the readers here already know Laurent Baheux. But I really wanted to bring his work back to the front and help some people discover it too. French sports photographer, Laurent has been working relentlessly on a very personal research that I consider as quite different from the most usual…

  • Goodbye Discovery

    As you certainly know by now, the Discovery space shuttle is currently flying its last mission, during which it will rendez-vous with the International Space Station (ISS) which has been assembled by several countries in low Earth orbit in the recent years. To honor it, I have the pleasure to present a few stunning pictures…

  • 3 hours to become a better photographer

    In our culture of fast-food restaurants, jet planes and instant messaging, we have no longer any time left. Anyway, during the time of a weekend afternoon, you can become a better photographer. Without even shooting one single frame. Open a photo book and start looking for what makes these images great to your eyes. Go…

  • Venice carnival

    Today starts the Venice Carnival. We already saw a lot of these photos, but they are still really marvelous, aren’t they? photo © 2010 US Army Africa | more info (via: Wylio) photo © 2008 Nicolò Bonazzi | more info (via: Wylio) photo © 2010 US Army Africa | more info (via: Wylio) photo ©…

  • All Sony SLR with semi-transparent mirrors

    All Sony SLR with semi-transparent mirrors

    QueSabesDe.com obtained an extraordinarily bold statement from Sony: All future Sony SLR cameras will be using the semi-transparent mirror technology (so, very probably with Electronic View Finders) and this applies to: All APS-C SLR cameras All Full Frame SLR cameras Gee! This is going to influence the future of the Sony Alpha line. In a…