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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
On Saturday evening, we went to see and listen to our friends Dario Costa and Jean-Louis Baille in “An Interview with Joseph Java”, a play directed by Lucie Gougat. The authors, and even more so the actors, asked this very pertinent question: ‘Is poetry meant to be nice and cuddly, or should it punch you in the face?’ Dario is Australian, but he has been living around here for ages. He is our neighbour too. His rendition of the interviewer […]
Lorient ‘La Base’, aka Lorient Submarine Base is a major historical site built by the German army between 1941 and 1944 during World War II to shelter submarines (U-boats) as part of the Battle of the Atlantic. It’s the largest submarine base built in Europe, consisting of three massive reinforced concrete blocks (K1, K2, K3) covering approximately eight hectares. This Lorient submarine base (code name Keroman) ‘withstood the most powerful bombs of the era and saw more than 203 U-boats (U-Boote) […]
Pointillism is, according to Sotheby’s, ‘a revolutionary painting technique pioneered by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in Paris in the mid-1880s. Yesterday, I discovered it could be a pioneering technique for modern photographers. Unless it’s not that new as we will find out in a moment. Pointillism Painting With My Camera ’ A watercolourist originally, I moved to photography 12 years ago. I’d always practised photography too, but it’s only then that it started to become a very serious affair for […]
