Young fern

Flora • Photography

This picture was taken in the Landes region (France). To avoid an high contrast due to the direct sunlight, I've made shadows above the subject. The resulted picture was nice but too dull, so I've adjusted the picture this way (you can compare we the original photo right above, by using the comparison feature).

Dassault Rafale

Aerial • Photography

This picture is not so sharp, but I decided to save it from the trash because of the aesthetic of reflections. About adjustments, it's simple, I sightly reinforce blacks and enhanced the afterburner effect; I've also removed a bird in front of the aircraft, not enough visible and interesting to be kept.

The snow, waiting for sand

Misc. • Photography

Waiting for my first pictures of Australia to be ready for post, here's the windy top of La Grande Motte, 3.656 m high (3.456 m for the end of the skiable area). About adjustments, I've increased the exposure a little and modify the white balance to enhance the blue tones.

Back!

Misc. • Photography

That's it, I'm now back home after five weeks in Australia and more than 2000 shoots. As those ones are 80% already sortes, I would better tell you I should have enough pictures to post for a while! I hope I'll be able to post the first pictures next weeks, my schedule is quite filled! […]

Visiting Australia

Misc.

Here's a drawing my mate and illustrator () kindly create for you!I'll be off for some time to an Australian trip but will not forget you!Why not taking advantage of this by browsing my whole gallery in case you missed some photos ( as on )?I'll always enjoy reading your comments. See you soon!

“Somewhere over the —RhineBow—”

Misc. • Photography

A 3 minutes long shot, taken few instants before the “Kölner Lichter Musical Fireworks”. A lots of illuminated boats comes slowly along the Rhine, where thousands of people are waiting for the show. On the non-processed picture, the sky as entirely dull and brown, so I adjusted it the way you can see above to […]

What's magical about A380

Aerial • Photography

This picture is probably my favorite from all my Bourget Airshow 2011 shots. With such a size and some low level pass, it just takes the light in an amazing way. This photo haven't been cropped and I've chosen deliberately to shot heavily zoomed (400mm — equiv. 640mm on the 7D). In fact, things was […]

Moon

Misc. • Photography

Some days ago, I decided to take some pictures of the Moon, was my first time. I used my 100-400L with a 2x extender (see tags and exifs) for a 800mm focal length on my 5D Mark II. Both pictures have been cropped, so you visualize here almost a 1500mm focal length. During the session, […]

Axalp 2010 - “Let's the show begin!”

Aerial • Photography

Second and last day for Axalp (public opened). Those two F/A-18C Hornet are opening the show with a fast and low level pass launching decoy flares. Action ends in a fraction and the first day, surprised by them, I've not been able to take one shot with an aircraft on the frame, only “traces” ^^ […]

“drilled needle” .v2

Misc. • Photography

This is another view of the rock arch (). I used the same shooting technic as before: I intentionally overexpose my original shot. In fact, it's a photography technic where you help your camera to grab as much details as possible, because camera sensor are way mor efficient on highlight. It's also called to “expose […]

Of yesteryear

Misc. • Photography

For this picture with old little bottles, dried flowers and ancient porcelain, I choose to adjust my picture with a slight cross processing. This helps giving to the picture an “authentic” aspect. However, please note that if this kind of adjustment for old things is more pleasant for our mind, in fact, it's only a […]

Patoune

Misc. • Photography • Wildlife & Fauna

Sometimes, a picture has potential, but some imperfections make them useless, like a tight framing, a cropped hear and paw, etc. Patoune is a great dog and generally alert, but what she wants is to run! Clearly, she don't care about your autofocus capabilities or any other settings… So back to home, let's make some […]

La Grande Motte

Misc. • Photography

This is the windy top of La Grande Motte, 3.656 m high (3.456 m for the end of the skiable area). I've been there quite a while, fighting against high speed and icy winds with lashing snow particles. But guess what? What a visual pleasure! About adjustments here, just a slight enhancement of blue (was dull) and […]

The Last Minutes

Misc. • Photography

This is the mouth of the Courant on the Contis beach. This place is extremely slippery because of the moss. I ardently advise you to leave back any claim about the simple action of “walking”, specially when you move in those rocks with tripod and camera in your two hands. A nice technic if you […]

McDonnell Douglas - Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

Aerial • Photography

Back to my aeronautical shots, it has been a while… (but wait wait!, Bourget Airshow is coming ^^). Here's a little boy, one of the 30 and more the Swiss like to own. Well, funny enough, this aircraft is just an amazing flying machine I can guaranty this to you. Specially when it comes to […]

Virgo's wreck

Misc. • Photography

This ship beached in 1976 on the Lespecier beach in Landes. I tried to go there on morning to get some better lights (earlier would have been nice, but well, that's it). By continue reading, you'll find 19 pictures and an extract from the true story that happened there.Comparison feature is for sure active on […]

American Sweetgum - Liquidambar styraciflua

Flora • Photography

Conditions for this shot was not round up. It took more than 30 minutes to get this shot: wind, sun, choosing the branch, etc. Subject was also to far so I couldn't create a shadow on it myself because I also need to be present on the camera to release the shutter in the exact […]