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Your LinkedIn headshot matters, and appearances can be deceptive. Despite the fact that we are in the midst of the iPhone photo age, the image you project on your CV, on blogs or in the press, and obviously on social media platforms, matters more than ever. Especially on a professional network like LinkedIn. Getting every detail of your profile right is pivotal, and that starts with choosing a quality photograph that truly represents who you are. After all, it’s the […]
Paris has its own Romeo and Juliet. Their names are Héloïse and Abélard, and their story dates back to the 12th century, on the Île de la Cité. Heloïse and Abélard: Paris’ Own Romeo and Juliet We visited the Conciergerie some time ago. It was on our list of “things worth seeing” and it was well worth the visit. It’s the former palace of the Kings, then turned into a Tribunal, then a jail (during the French revolution) and lastly […]
2025 has been quite a ride, but despite the challenges, we remain hopeful for better days ahead and wish you a happy new year 2026. It was already over six years ago, in December 2019, when someone allegedly bought fish or a pangolin at a market in Wuhan, China (a city I’d never even heard of at the time). Most of this is probably nonsense anyway, and we’ll likely never know what really happened. Back then, it was impossible to […]
Studio portraits are sometimes a bit of a challenge. They are part of these thing that look simple and straightforward and are anything but simple and straightforward. The Paris Salon de la photo is a great gathering that is dedicated to photography and photographers. It’s a perfect opportunity to meet fellow photographers and co-authors. In this post, I look back at an amazing studio photo session on the Nikon stand hosted by Little Shao and a very supple model, and […]
Today’s daily writing prompt is ‘What could you do differently?’ but right now it’s more like ‘What must you do differently?’ Doing differently: adapting to the snow storm Snow has been falling heavily for the past few days and it’s even worsened today. Merely poking my head over the balcony and I could see young students from the school next door moving across the street and throwing snowballs at each other.
Finding a subject for a tourist’s look at the Eiffel Tower doesn’t require much effort. Since I’ve remained one in my own city, I’m probably the ideal man to talk about it. I chose to focus on the Eiffel Tower area. Curves are everywhere here. This is where sports fan zones are usually set up, and in 2024 it hosted the temporary Olympic Games site, not to mention the countless tourists who have flocked here in even greater numbers since […]
Professional studio headshot photography needs to match certain specific criteria if you want it to be successful. In this article, I’ve summarised some of my experience after thousands of portraits, both in the field and in the studio. As stated in the title, we will only focus on portrait photography for professionals, be they freelancers or entrepreneurs, or employees of larger businesses. What Makes a Successful Professional Studio Headshot? No Silver Bullet for a Successful Studio Headshot Let’s be clear […]
No digital trickery, computer doctoring, or AI nonsense on this High-speed photography shot of the Fountain of Explorers – just a slight crop on the right-hand side. The water droplets were captured at very high speed (1/800 sec), low ISO (100), and from far off to keep everything pin-sharp (long depth of field). Taken one afternoon in Paris late in the day whilst the sun was still fairly high in the sky. The Fountain of Explorers Pixelated The Fountain of […]
The Monument to French Mothers is one of these places in Paris that tourist circuits and guidebooks are overlooking. Tucked away in its namesake garden at 21 Boulevard Kellermann, it’s one of those monumental works you walk past without really seeing. It is lost between Porte d’Italie and Parc Kellermann, in this 13th arrondissement that was once Victor Hugo’s Paris of the Misérables (the wretched). It was the haunt of the Thénardiers and Marius Pontmercy. Monument to French Mothers: story of a […]
Miguel Couturier from OI-Paris.com organised a light painting photography session in one of the abandoned tunnels of the Petite Ceinture airway network in Paris. The outing was well-planned and brought together photo club members for an afternoon of creative experimentation in a unique urban setting. Light Painting in a Paris Tunnel
