Category: Digital photography

  • Muscovy duck

    Muscovy duck

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it The muscovy duck is found in many places in Brazil. This one is trying to dry its wings.

  • Crimson-crested Woodpecker

    Crimson-crested Woodpecker

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it A nice Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) clutching its tree trunk. The early hour led to the very visible use of the flash to light this scene.

  • Poor man’s fish eye lens

    Poor man’s fish eye lens

    If you are not really after image quality, but would like to have original images (more or less this is the profile of the Lens Baby crowd), you can build your own ultra-wide-angle (fish eye) lens out of a door peephole and a cheap lens cap. The result is as bad as can be expected,…

  • Hero in the Sun – behaviour

    Hero in the Sun – behaviour

    A few weeks ago, in October 2007, I was in Brazil shooting wild life images. A lot of these photos are showing birds and their beaviour. Interestingly, when back in France, I found a photo and an article in ScienceBlogs Select where GrrlScientist was surprised by a behaviour from a Great Blue Hero I had…

  • Shock photos from planet Mars

    Shock photos from planet Mars

    The Hirise exploration vessel from NASA arrived near planet MArs last September. Able to shoot photos from the red planet at an amazing resolution (around 1 meter per pixel), Hirise sends us back some really astounding images. Some of them bring the memory of the great images of Y.Arthus-Bertrand in his Earth seen from the…

  • Golden Tegu – South American lizard seen in Brazil

    Golden Tegu – South American lizard seen in Brazil

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Despite its name, this large lizard can be found in white, yellow or green colours. This one was nearly perfectly black and white.

  • Leopard as seen by the photographer

    Leopard as seen by the photographer

    All you readers that mix love for Apple and love for photography will be delighted to know that there is a good article by Henrik Paul about the use of the newest Apple MacOS 10.5 Operating System (codenamed Leopard) by the digital photographer.

  • Leaked images of Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    Leaked images of Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    Since the recent leak of the name of the newest full-frame sensor D-SLR from Canon (Canon EOS 5D Mk II), there was a post on DPreview forums showing what are -allegedly- images of this camera. It seems too good to be true, or the camera is nearly ready for announcement. the back of the camera…

  • Southern Lapwing

    Southern Lapwing

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it This bird is also known in South Brazil, where it is very common, as Quero Quero because of its cry (in French Vanneau téro).