Category: Digital photography

  • Hiroshima photos – never seen before

    On August 6th, 1945, Hiroshima was bombed with the first atomic weapon. U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces, found undevelopped films with many pictures that are available only this year. They are disturbing to say the less (I wanted to use one photo to illustrate this post, then decided…

  • Nilgun Kara

    Nilgun Kara

    Photos from Nilgun Kara, Turkish photographer. Need I say that I loved her work? I’m simply dazed and I adore her photos… Her portfolio on Art Limited, and on DeviantArt.

  • Cute, but risky

    Cute, but risky

    Unknown author.

  • Sudden drop of minke whale populations

    A scientific study coming from Iceland suggest that in the recent years the minke whale population suddenly dropped from 45000 in 2001 to less than 15000 last year. This is a enormous change that is not yet explained for a small whale that was more or less protected by its smaller size (big whales bring…

  • Foggy photos

    Foggy photos

    Source: Shooher.

  • Diffraction and digital photography

    Diffraction and digital photography

    Several times, I talked about the limitation to photo image quality by light diffraction but I failed to go into the details. To the general request of one reader who asked, I will try to give some explanations to better understand why the digital photographer must absolutely take that into account to make better pictures…

  • Cats from Aube Nature

    Cats from Aube Nature

    Aube-Nature.com is a web site I tend to track nearly continuously because Cédric Girard tends to write interesting posts about nature photography. But I also caught a few posts with nice images of cats This goes farther than the usual “nice companion” photos. I recommend heartily to check regularly Aube-Nature.com.

  • Canon EOS 50D

    You loved the Canon EOS 30D, then the EOS 40D. But since you’re hooked to buying always the best technology that money can buy, you are already looking for the next digital SLR camera from Canon. And you’re right. If something can be learned from history, the regular schedule of launches for the mid-range line…

  • Nikon at next PMA

    The expectations for the next PMA fair: Nikon will announce 3 new prime lenses (most certainly high-quality), 2 new zoom lenses (24-120mm VR II, 70-200mm VR II), the Nikon D3x (high-end pro Full Frame camera) and the Nikon D90 (entry-level replacement for the Nikon D80).