Category: Digital photography
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This year: Safari in South Africa
This is decided! This year I’ll go on a photo safari in South Africa in private natural reserves (not far from the famous Kruger National Park). It’s set specially for Leopard by Objectif Nature (specialized tour operator from France). Last year, I went for the first time to a photo safari to meet the felines…
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Panoramic photos from the world
More and more, photography amateurs are attracted toward panoramic images and photos. Virtual Sweeden is a web site showing a large number of the highest quality. I particularly recommend the following ones: Le Louvre Museum 360° Rome’s St Peters basilica 360°
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Supersize your images
If you ever dreamed of printing images in much larger size than what your personal printer allows (let’s say 3′ by 6′), you have either to buy a very expensive printer or use a very expensive photo printing service. You see the common words here: very expensive. The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any…
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CD-R/DVD-R reliability
The questions Many people are using optical media for their archival needs. They are very affordable and the manufacturers claim a storage life of more than ten years, often a century. However, when such claims are made people are always interested in ensuring that the figures are right and provable (archive management cannot accept to…
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Bones and silk by Natalie Shau
When you see most of the images of Natalie Shau, you will probably think about Tim Burton’s Corpse bride. However, there is something more. We can start from colorful fantasies like “Empty dreams” below, then move to darker images. Then, I invite you to discover her black&white photographic portraits that will lead you into a…
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Best posts of 2006
It is now the time to look back at the year 2006 and to check what you really liked in the Roumazeilles.net web site. So, here are the posts viewed the most in the past year. Is it a surprise? Canon 40D crushes 30D prices, at least, that was the rumour. But the prices went…
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Canon EOS 40D in March 2007
Let’s try a prediction (I was about to say prevision). While the end of 2006 was clearly marked by the lauch of digital cameras to attract some of the less wealthy to digital single lens reflex cameras (or D-SLR) with new products like the Canon 400D (Rebel Xti) or the Nikon D40, I can foresee…
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Slow motion hi-speed movie compilation
Certainly not very original (hi-speed cameras have been able to film very fast phenomenons for years), but they are still very impressive images: http://www.youtube.com/v/MX6aerxQPOs
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Franck Brudieux black and white reptiles
Franck Brudieux recently made an impressive photo work on reptiles. Usually, reptiles are subject for nature photography insisting on placing the animal in its natural context. Here, Franck moved to a studio and decided to favor heavily the skins and surfaces of the animals and went for Black and White images. Something completely out of…