Photography section: wallpapers, tips and tests (original) (raw)

Panorama [ ](../Photo/BlackWhite.html "A gallery of black and white images with some technical comments.")On two pages I gathered all the horizontal and Vertical panoramic pictures that you can see around my site, up to a certain date. After that there were just too many, so the most recent are here and here. I have written a program that 'warps' pictures in order to transform them into panorama. It's freeware and here's a tutorial for it.

And here's a list of posters, mostly B&W and panoramic, currently on sale in a store in Briançon. I'm not selling them online but you are certainly welcome to take a look at them.

Besides panoramas, there are other ways to combine images in order to extend the capabilities of photographic equipment, such as extending the dynamic range or increasing the resolution.

Copyright and $ [ ](../Photo/Copyright.html "Interested in Antarctic and climbing pictures ? Here's the copyright info and how to get them.")

I'm sure you came here to read all about my fascinating copyright information. On the same page, you will also find a list of my public slide shows as well as some contact information should you wish to buy some pictures.

If you want to use or purchase some of my pictures, first make sure they are not placed in a photographic agency, in which case you should contact them, not me.

For a list of pictures available for sale, take a look at the five royalty-free photo archive CDs I sell, featuring between 250 and 390 pictures of Antarctica, penguins, climbing in the Alps, in the USA and many other places. Price is below 50¢ per image.

And if you just want to support my site, look at my money page.

Equipment [ ](../Photo/Copyright.html "Interested in Antarctic and climbing pictures ? Here's the copyright info and how to get them.")My old interest in photography has been rekindled in 2000 by the loss of most of my photographic equipment in the infamous car accident that finished off our honeymoon. I could have decided to delay indefinitely the acquisition of a new camera, instead I bought two ! A Nikon F100 and a Ricoh GR21. More recently I started late on the digital wave with the Ricoh GRD and the Fuji S5 pro.

On that same page you'll find some comments about other photographic gear that passed through my hands but the recent digital compact cameras are on their own.

Getting into digital photography can be confusing for a traditional film user like myself, so I wrote down some basic workflows to get the most out of scanned images or digital cameras, for which I've also tested some RAW file processing softwares and written a bunch of scripts for scanning old images.

Some tips for wedding photography.

And I also have some outdated X-ray advice for travelers.

And a script to scan outdated Kodak disk negatives in an efficient way.

Climbing [ ](../Photo/ClimbingPhotoTips.html "Some photography tips for rock/mountain climbers: best gear, cold temp, risk...")As you may have noticed from the rest of my site, I'm pretty much into climbing, so I have put up some information about taking pictures while climbing and how I prepared the pictures for this site.

Besides climbing, there are also some images of base jumping and some images I found while climbing.