Category: Digital photography
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Whales big mouth
Up to recently, scientists did not really know how whales could eat the enormous amounts of krill they need to feed a record-sized body. It appears that this is now understood thanks to some serendipity. Sources: The New York Times article and the original paper of Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Nicholas D. Pyenson & Robert E.…
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HDR photography, a few links
HDR photography (High Dynamic Range Photo) is a process where you take several photo pictures with very different exposures (different speeds or different apertures) and then use a software to pack them into one image packing the whole range of light. The result is often a little erie but allows to take images impossible to…
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Time-lapse sequences: How-to and a 20000-image example
If like me your a photographer who wouldn’t dare making a video, you still can think about doing a decent time-lapse sequence out of your photographs. However, this cannot happen just by taking images and loading them into a software. You must start by studying the lessons from PhotoJojo.com’s Ultimate Guide to Time-Lapse Photography. When…
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Sunbittern
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias, Caurale soleil). Brazil, 2007.
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Neotropic Cormorant
The Cormorant is clearly a bird easy to find anywhere you can find some water. In Pantanal, the Neotropic Cormorant lives along rivers and is easily seen spreading its wings in the sun while not diving for fishes. Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus, Cormoran vigua). Brazil, 2007.
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Northern Jaguar Project
When it comes to saving animals from extinction, many efforts are needed. Some of them seem very interesting to me. This is the case of the Northern Jaguar Project. They try to protect a large piece of land in Northern Occidental Mexico in order to ensure a large zone where jaguars could survive in a…
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Saffron Finch
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola, Sicale bouton-d’or). Brazil, 2007.
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Please, remove the little frog
In a Pantanal fazenda, inside the room, we could find those information signs. In addition to the most usual “Do not disturb” and “make the room”, we could notice the most unusual “Please remove little frog from bathroom”. As a matter of fact, the little guy was waiting in the shower. Brazil, 2007.
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Vulture
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Vulture (in flight). Brazil, 2007.