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Portfolio: Anne Roumazeilles

(Wednesday, April 30th, 2008)

You may think that I am partial presenting you this portfolio today. Yes! Anne Roumazeilles is my nephew. But I really love what she does while she only began shooting photos a short time ago.

I let you judge these images taken in Île de Ré (on the Atlantic coast of France) and feel free to leave a comment (or constructive criticism).


Île de Ré - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved Île de Ré - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved
Boat from Île de Ré - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved
Pebbles - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved Pebbles and feather - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved
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Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved.
For Jacques.

Slanted illusion

(Wednesday, April 30th, 2008)

Optical illusion

Straight lines are actually really parallels.

It’s your brain trying to convince you they’re not.

Soon: A new lens in my bag

(Wednesday, April 30th, 2008)

Happy news here: I finally bought a lens I wanted for quite some time. I found and paid on eBay a Minolta APO G 400mm f/4.5 (Yes! The old white lens that is renowned so much for its optical and mechanical quality, while being nearly impossible to find in auctions).

It will go really well with the Giottos MT 8251 carbon tripod and the MH 1001-652 ball-head I bought a month ago in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.

Soon to arrive from Osaka, Japan. I can’t wait.

Minolta APO G 400mm f/4.5

Brown-hooded Gull

(Tuesday, April 29th, 2008)

Brown-hooded Gull
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Brown-hooded Gull (Larus maculipennis, Mouette de Patagonie). Brazil, 2007.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Clear Sky, images and reviews

(Tuesday, April 29th, 2008)

Like all Internet reviewers, I hate this title because of the strain it puts on the writer just to put the name down on the keyboard. However, it has received a number of reviews. Let’s see some of them:

Plenty of tips for food photography

(Monday, April 28th, 2008)

I don’t know why (maybe because I’m looking for them) but I seem to find plenty of posts about optimizing your photography of food. Let’s share some of the best ones here:

PhotoShop Express online - a few reviews

(Sunday, April 27th, 2008)

This was a little event a few days ago: Adobe launched its first beta version of the online PhotoShop under the name of Photoshop Express. As it was easy to predict, it’s not as simple as marketing would like you to believe and you cannot replace one by the other as most of the reviews hereafter will show you:

  • Les Numériques (en français): would better use Picasa to share the images prepared with Photoshop Express, and would want to see Raw files management, curves and histograms, and masks.
  • Ars Technica (in English): it is rahter a cross between iPhoto and Adobe Bridge, but they love the basic features and (including color correction).
  • Baekdal.com (in English) : disappointed; This is not an image editor, by far - just a fun way to apply a few corrections/effects. Woudl rather recommend Splashup, he feels is superior.
  • Photojojo (in English): This is certainly not Photoshop but it does very well what it offers (basic image edition/correction).
  • LifeHacker: Not the Full PS Package, but Good Web-Based Editing
  • Pixinfo.com (in Hungarian): Honest! I didn’t understand what they think about it…

To notice: Photoshop Express is free, limited to 2GB of online storage (easy to reach) and in English only for now.

Kelp gull

(Sunday, April 27th, 2008)

The largest gull of South-American continent, easily recognized from its plummage and the red spot on the inferior mandible of its yellow beak.

Kelp gull

Kelp gull
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Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus, Goéland dominicain). Brazil, 2007.

Note: These kelp gull photos are the beginning of a series of images I brought back from Brazil in last January. You will see here one post every two days with a new animal (mostly birds), with one or more photos. Keep visiting us.

Great coins for Great Britain

(Saturday, April 26th, 2008)

“You’ve got to love those coins!” Do you believe that I could tell you so? Surely not. Even better, you can be surprised to learn that I found that in a web site about design and arts (Baekdal.com). And it is defintely a great design for something as old as coins.

The new UK coins have been designed to be elegantly assembled in a single pattern:

English coins

Source: Can Coins Look Sexy?

Fiction of the day: Security question, by Ramon Rozas III

(Friday, April 25th, 2008)

I found this funny little piece of SciFi/security litterature. I’m sure you’ll like it.

The man blurred into existence behind the dense shrubs, and checked a small device he took from his pocket. Since time and date seemed correct, he straightened his sports coat and stepped from behind the bushes.

[…]

Idea for a new typography term

(Thursday, April 24th, 2008)

Keming or bad kerning

Source: Ironic Sans.

Lego optical illusion

(Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008)

Optical illusion

It took all the art of bbzippo, some Lego bricks and some Photoshop editing, too.


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