Photo curiosity

  • Miguel Lasa

    Should we present Miguel Lasa? World-class photographer and in love with wildlife, he has a web site (www.miguellasa.com) that anybody should visit. The leopard below was found in Zimbabwe while driving back to the camp. Before arriving to the base camp we spotted this leopard on a tree. After waiting more than one hour he/she…

  • DSLR comparisons

    It is often a little difficult to compare two cameras feature by feature. I’ve come to a web site which does that (and only that), but does it nicely: SnapSort.com. Nice.

  • Gimp links

    I don’t often write about Gimp, the free software image and photo edition software which is avbailabel both for Linux and PC-Windows. But, nevertheless, I keep noticing bits of useful information that I’d like to share with you if you are a user of Gimp. Selective Noise Reduction with GIMP — Repairing Noisy Skies pour…

  • Clean hot pixels from RAW files

    It is sometimes unpleasant to discover a little annoying problem like a defective pixel on the sensor of a digital photo camera. It produces a small colored pixel (often black or white, sometimes of some other color). On a RAW file, it could be worse if it produces a colored streak. It is most visible…

  • Per-Anders Pettersson

    Africa is a place where the world is changing, maybe faster than elsewhere in the world and photographers are trying to document the changes. Per-Anders Pettersson went to South Africa and Congo and his web site has some echoes of the shouts of the people torn in these wide moves. A busy street corner where…

  • Database update

    For those who did not notice it, I updated significantly the list of reviews and tests of the SLR photo cameras appearing in the D-SLR database on YLovePhoto.com. An excellent way to guide yourself in the maze of cameras before buying yours.

  • Three cheap image hosting services

    Ars Technica has a nice little post comparing three image online hosting and sharing options: Flickr Picasa Photobucket They do not conclude which one is better, merely provide a view about the differences. Good reading.

  • Stars: Both a portfolio and a DIY tutorial

    At first, Peter Shah seems to be the usual astronomy photographer. He goes out at night to look at the sky with a photo camera and a very big lens on a tripod. This is actually wrong. Peter Shah is actually a perfectionist. Where most amateur astronomers learned to grind a mirror by themselves in…

  • A gun to protect your photo luggage

    photo credit: Tanozzo This is the surprising advice given by Bruce Schneier about how you could protect your photo luggage when traveling: Pack a starter gun in your luggage. This is definitely considered as a weapon by the TSA and other flight authorities (but it is not dangerous and you don’t need a license to…