Photography – Page 4 – Tristan Romain Renaud

About Clipping blacks and blowing highlights: an attempt to bring together art, science and discipline

Introduction Clipping in photography is well known and whereas sometimes done on purpose, it mostly comes as a non-desirable effect, because of poor exposure (worst case) or at least reaching the limits of the sensor range (best case). By clipping, I mean both blowing highlights and clipping blacks. The topic has been debated countless times in different forums and blogs. As…

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8 January 2019

Photography

The three pillars of photography

I have written several times that technical innovation can be either a way to foster your creativity or could be, most of the time, a useless distraction. I don't say I am opposed to innovation, that's more the other way around of course, but I like to believe one should always remember the basic: 1. Subjects' choice Whatever the technology and…

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19 April 2013

Photography

Digital photography in 2013: what can come out from the end of a revolution

The digital revolution may have began around 1999 or 2000 with the first real DSLR of Nikon and Canon. Almost 15 years later, evolution will continue, every quarter great cameras, software, or new web services are released, but I am more and more believing it is the end of the digital revolution. And that's good news for photography because we may…

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8 January 2013

Photo sharing / Photography

About the broken feature of photosharing: discovery and explore

Whereas photosharing has become so popular for the last years, it is well known that most of the time, looking for "good photographers" - which means someone who takes pictures YOU like, has become more and more challenging. Arthur Chang has already written an excellent post about this. Curation is indeed a real challenge as the flow of new pictures is…

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22 October 2012

Photography

Digital photography needs a clear back up strategy

Some people can lose all their digital work in a few minutes, that's still very rare. More frequent, your hard drive can crash, any time, without notice. At the end of the day, our digital assets are just becoming so important we cannot live without a clear back-up strategy. For a photographer, it cannot be more important. The risks You can't…

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29 September 2012