June 4th, 2011

Quick Stick Removal

Animated GIF image of the before and after of the stick removal

Today I posted an image on BPN of a photo I created last year. The image, I thought, fitted the month’s theme well, ‘Pairs’. When I opened the file, I did not like the stick in the middle of the image and [...]

May 16th, 2011

Micro Adjustments II

After a lot of talk, discussions, new insights and a new Lens Align device, I will spend a new blog post on the topic of MicroAdjustments, further abbreviated as MA in this article. My previous post on this topic can be found here and there are a few considerations that differ from this article, discussed [...]

March 25th, 2011

Creative Photography with Pelicans

The whole week in Greece the weather was the only disappointment. It was cold and the light was subdued: although photographing in overcast is not always bad, certainly in midday hours. Whilst I was photographing with my new and amazing zoom lens (the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L) I started playing with some other lighting technique: using [...]

March 22nd, 2011

My Cold Greek Week

When preparing for the photographic tour with Arthur Morris and Robert O’Toole to Greece I was sort of anticipating for a bit more warmth: where I live in Switzerland the fields were still covered in snow since end of November so I hoped for a break. How wrong I was and I didn’t pack the [...]

January 25th, 2011

Pilanesberg, A Photographic Tour

Early March in 2010, the idea was launched to organise a photographic tour. My images and stories from several Africa trips lead to the request from Foto Marlin to organise a tour. So I did. We would go to the Pilanesberg National Park area, for reasons of accessibility and it is a malaria free area. [...]