Photo curiosity

  • 4 best tips for new inspiration when you’re dead

    4 best tips for new inspiration when you’re dead

    Sometimes, I need to get new inspiration for my photography. I feel my photography eye is dead. Don’t we all? Here’s what I can do to help start again with fresh ideas, new energy for photography: Open a photo book and start looking for what surprises you and is different from your own work: Different…

  • Underpants: A gift for the camera lover

    Underpants: A gift for the camera lover

    No doubt about that, you must make sure that your other half will find this information in time for buying the best gift for a photo camera lover: underpant boxers with second-hand vintage photo cameras. This is at GAP, it’s everywhere in the wolrd on the Internet, but also in all the GAP shops, in…

  • New firmware for Sony Alpha 850/900: Tomorrow Now confirmed

    photo © 2010 yellowcloud | more info (via: Wylio) Update: This is now confirmed and the firmware can be downloaded freely. According to SonyAlphaRumors.com, Sony will present tomorrow a new version of the firmware for the Sony Alpha 850 and 900 SLR Full Frame photo cameras. It should bring: Faster Autofocus Maximum exposure compensation range:…

  • CompactFlash is not dead yet

    photo © 2009 Sam Catchesides | more info (via: Wylio) We may have believed that CompactFlash was nearly dead as a format for flash memory cards. This is not true yet, since SanDisk Corporation, Sony Corporation and Nikon Corporation just announced they started the development of the next generation of Compact-Flash memory cards able to…

  • Summer variations – Vincent Munier

    Summer variations – Vincent Munier

    Shot with the Nikon D3s, by wildlife photographer Vincent Munier. YouTube link

  • Photoshop CS6: a preview of the alpha version

    The future of Photoshop CS6 has been recently shown at MAX2010, the Adobe conference in Los Angeles. YouTube link I believe that the really impressive part of this technical demonstration is the set of automatisms which operate -essentially- by showing the machine an example of the result to reach rather than finding the right settings…

  • NASA and ESA best space pictures

    NASA and ESA best space pictures

    The two great space American and European agencies (NASA and ESA) are the most active sources of top-quality space images. Even better, most of their published pictures are available nearly without constraint (at least for non-commercial uses). So, you no longer need to bring your telescope and your photo camera to see the deep end…

  • Kuwait: DSLR authorized again

    Now, this is good journalism: Kuwait Times has been following on their previous story about a ban imposed onto Digital SLR cameras in Kuwait. Actually, they published a retraction indicating that this was false information. Less surprising, but kudos to them for standing up to good journalism standards: Always check the source information.

  • Post rating is coming to YLovePhoto

    Starting right now, I open an experiment with a new feature for YLovePhoto. As you will quickly notice, there is now the possibility to add a star rating to all posts and pages on the web site. This should be quite easy to master (click on the star rating you want to give, 1 is…