Category: Digital photography

  • Big with Nikon, small with Nikon

    Big with Nikon, small with Nikon

    From the universe to the smallest elementary particles, Nikon presents a guided interactive tour of the size scales we find around us in the universe.

  • South Africa: Contents of the photo safari bag

    South Africa: Contents of the photo safari bag

    Ready to go to South Africa to find leopards during a safari photo trip, I am preparing my photo bag. For those of you interested in its contents and the reasons why I have filled it like that, I invite you to check this list together.

  • 25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece

    25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece

    This is an art project using the collaborative Internet to create one of the largest images in the world. MillionMasterPiece.com wants to create an historic art master piece by collating one million small 160×160 images, leading to more than 25 giga-pixels of contemporary art. You can join for free or, even better, you can donate…

  • Fabrice Hénon, photographer

    Fabrice Hénon, photographer

    Fabrice is an amateur photographer I have been wanting to present to you for months already. You should visit his gallery (please, take not that it is “not safe for work” and may be classified as slightly erotic).

  • Monster DSLR comparison guide

    Reviewed cameras Canon 30D, 5D, Digital Rebel XT (350D), Digital Rebel XTi (400D), 1D Mark III , 1Ds Mark II Nikon D200, D2Hs, D2Xs, D40, D40x, D80 Fuji FinePix S5 Pro Olympus Evolt E-510, E-500, E-410, E-330 Pentax *ist D, K100D, K110D, K10D Samsung GX-1L, GX-1S, GX-10 Sigma SD-14 Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 This is not…

  • Io is still the prefered destination for volcano watchers

    Io is still the prefered destination for volcano watchers

    Io, a Jupiter satellite, has long been the only place -out of good old Earth- where presently active volcanoes could be observed presently. It fascinated me even when the satellite was joined by other bodies in the Solar system. Today NASA confirms us that Io is still the best place where you should go and…

  • Life Magazine dies on paper – reborn online

    This is certainly neither the first nor the last paper magazine lost, Life Magazine was a major landmark in the landscape. At the center of its fame, was the excellent quality of its photographs. Time announced that they would publish online the 10 million images of Life Magazine (no date yet). It should be a…

  • Shocking news: Cheetah attacks BBC reporter

    Shocking news: Cheetah attacks BBC reporter

    Simon King, BBC presenter of Big Cat Diary, was recently attacked by a cheetah. It is a very unusual behaviour for an animal who tends to be easily afraid by large animals like a human. Read it all on BBC (video here). I am not unhappy that it did not happen to me last time…

  • Prints fade resistance test

    PixInfo.com, The hungarian web site prefered by photographers of the world, juts published a new comparison article. This time, they wanted to check how digital prints fade after one year of exposition to sun light. They stopped at 11 months (shame on them!) but the results are speaking in impressive words. The English article (You…