Photography

Posts with category: photography

• Every country in the world in 1 (Unsplash) photo • 14 Feb 2021
  I wanted to demonstrate the power of my splashmark image markup script and did the following experiment:
• Best way to upscale low resolution photos • 04 Jul 2020
  I’ve been doing some remote shoots recently, as the photographer obviously, and I’ve mainly used FaceTime ‘Live photos’ for captures. The result of such a shoot is a series of .HEIC files (it’s an Apple thing). Each file is a...
• How to do a remote portrait photo shoot • 30 May 2020
  COVID19 has had a huge impact of pretty much everything. For portrait photography, the 6-feet-apart, no-travelling, use-mouth-mask lockdown had made it almost impossible to do an in-person photo shoot. But every limit is also a challenge, Is it possible to...
• Ten tips to take better low-light photos (dance/event/concert) • 22 Nov 2019
  One of my most popular posts is Five tips for taking tango pictures in low light. That information is now more than 10 years old. Technology has evolved a lot since then, as have my photography skills. That’s why there...
• Tango photography and GDPR: new rules for photographers & organizers? • 04 May 2018
  GDPR for (tango) event photographers
• Shooting portraits of strangers • 13 Jan 2011
  This was quite a discovery: Danny Santos has been shooting portraits of complete strangers on Orchard Road, Singapore. The story was featured on JPG Magazine with some beautiful examples and that post pointed to his Facebook album, which pointed to...
• Not happy with the Canon 500D • 16 Mar 2010
  In June 2006 I bought my first reflex camera: a Canon 350D. About the same time I started taking pictures of tango (above: my first tango picture, at Couleur Cafe 2006). And it was the start of an exciting journey....
• Focal length for the common man: "portrait distance" • 01 Feb 2010
  I remember that before I started photography on a serious level, I had some understanding of shutter speed, but none of aperture and focal length. Even when I read what they meant, I still couldn´t ‘picture’ it, had no feeling...
• Five tips for taking tango pictures in low light • 31 Oct 2008
  This post is old! – check out the more recent version: 10 tips to take better photos in low light!
• A JPEG picture doesn’t care about no DPI • 21 Apr 2008
  Every now and then I get a request to use pictures of mine for a poster, a flyer, a book. People usually find the pictures they want in my Flickr sets, where they are available in a max resolution of...
• Photography workflow with Picasa & Flickr • 04 Mar 2008
  I’ve been thinking about writing this for a while, but I always thought everyone would probably work in the same way. But then I got introduced to iPhoto, which I consider a sh*tty piece of software, so apparently not everyone...
• New lens for my Canon camera • 02 Feb 2008
  My current favourite lens for my Canon 350D is the Canon EF 50mm F 1.8 II ø 52 mm. I really like the wide aperture (f/1.8) that allows me to take pictures without flash in dark environments like tango events,...
• What is HD-JPEG? • 08 Oct 2007
  While reading the specs of the PackardBell Store & Play, I fall upon “Foto formaten: JPEG, HD JPEG” As I am working with several aspects of HD (High Definition) video all the time, I am of course intrigued. There is...
• My first picture in the papers • 23 Aug 2007
  An Baccaert wrote an article in De Morgen about Nathalie and Andrés, who are representing the Benelux in the ‘Mundial de Tango‘ in Buenos Aires. She wanted a nice picture to include with the article and came across one I made...
• “Living photographs” by Andrew Mole • 03 Jul 2007
  I just discovered a really neat online publication: Cabinet Magazine. Here follows one of their articles, on Andrew Mole, a American photographer of the early 20th century. Kind of a Spencer Tunick, with a patriotic message and way more clothes...
• Package Delivery 2.0 • 05 Apr 2007
  I spent last weekend at the Brussels Tango Festival, mostly taking pictures of people dancing. Because of the lack of light that is typical for tango events, I had bought a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens online one week before. First...
• 100.000 Flickr views • 22 Mar 2007
  Yesterday I reached 100.000 views on my Flickr account. Using the numbers above, that translates in almost 32 views on average for each picture. But of course, my Flickr photo collection has power law (big head/long tail) distribution. Let’s dive...
• To upsize a picture, use the B-spline algorithm • 26 Jan 2007
  If you take a low-res picture, and you want to blow it up to a higher size, there are different algorithms to do the calculation of all those new pixels. I talked about this earlier in “How to upsize an...
• French hospitality • 21 Jan 2007
  French hospitality #1 I’ve just spent a great weekend with the family in France. A couple from Antwerp has restored a “gentilhommière” (small castle) in Le Thurel (Picardie) as a gite d’etappe and turned it into a pleasant bed-and-breakfast! Long...
• Lots of New Year’s pictures • 03 Jan 2007
  Lots of people have been taking pictures on New Year and this clearly shows in the stats of incoming pictures at two major photo hosting sites: Flickr and Smugmug. Flickr reached a peak of nearly 100.000 pictures/hour (97.1 k#/h) and...
• Megapixel myth nuances • 08 Dec 2006
  What’s the value of more megapixels? Is 10 megapixels better than 5? Here are some articles stating the opposite:
• The popular Canon 400D • 26 Nov 2006
  
• How to upsize an image • 23 Aug 2006
  Printing in larger sizes
• Rule of thirds for Powerpoint • 16 Aug 2006
  Just a thought I had: if the “rule of thirds” is so effective for photo composition, could it also be used to create more pleasing Powerpoint presentation designs? An example of the layout dimensions could be like this (don’t focus...
• Beyond the megapixel • 11 May 2006
  Wired just released an article on digital camera technology: why megapixels alone are not a good indicator of camera and photograph quality.
• Adobe authors Digital Negative (DNG) standard • 03 Oct 2004
  Adobe has developed a new format for ‘raw’ camera files, called Digital Negative. The DNG specifications (PDF) uses the following arguments for its existence: