One of my top list good resolutions for 2019 is definitely to get back to a more regular posting activity on my blog. The last months were busy - yes - but it should always be possible to make some time available for getting out in the streets and posting photos on...
As explained recently, usually, when I am in the streets and the weather is sunny, I usually set my shutter speed to 1/1000s and then switch between shutter speed and aperture priority quickly depending on the potential subjects and scenes I see. Unfortunately, while...
This week, I am sharing another photo related to my newly discovered passion for taking photos of urban architecture. From one of the highways around Toulouse, I saw an interesting building in the south of the city and always wanted to get closer to take a picture -...
My quest for interesting lighting and contrasty pictures continues. This week, I share two pictures I took during another visit to the lovely city of Bordeaux. Harsh sunlight and some great colors resulted in two photos.
In late August, I was quite proud that I was able to maintain the one post per week rhythm. However, since the new academic year has started, the time was an even scarcer resource than before. Unfortunately, the new family life with two kids and the preparation of a...
This morning for the first time since August 29th, 2017, I had no post ready for publication and the day, I had this feeling of a flaw or failure. The reason is that I am working on a major document for work and had an approaching deadline, leading to a lack of...
September - just after the summer break - is always a period that is very busy. This year is no exception to the rule. As a result, time was extremely scarce to get out at shooting. For the post this week, I remained inside my home and took two quite simple photos of...
#contrasts # Introduction - finding a personal signature in my photos in post-processing While finding time to actually get out in the streets became a difficult task recently due to the starting academic year, I started editing and post-processing my photos as soon...
Ok, let's face it: one year in, and I still shoot very much from the hip. What I initially considered an approach in street photography to overcome my shyness, ended up being my major way of shooting when focusing on candid pictures of people in the streets. So far, I...
The first week of September and in no place where I lived before, the back to school and work seems as an important event as in France. All TV and radio shows are starting a new season with a more or less renewed concept and the relaxed summer feeling makes space for...
Today is special: this post marks the first anniversary of my blog on street photography! This means several things: I started my discovery of street photography (and more genres down the road) exactly one year ago. Learning about street photography by chance...
Throughout my recent posts on this blog, you probably noticed my current leaning toward urban and architectural photography as a genre I like exploring in addition to people-centered street photography. What attracts and sometimes bothers me at the same time in...
A couple of weeks back, I published a post on urban photography, a genre I recently discovered and liked as it is closely related to street photography. So, when I went through my photos I recovered and re-discovered recently, I saw a couple of nice shots of business...
What do you do if you want to feed your blog, but you did not get out in the streets enough to present new photos? Go through your old photos to perhaps discover pictures and see them in a new light thanks to your development in skills. But, the wish to go through...
When I started my street photography journey approximately one year ago, I extensively read and watched reviews and tips on gear and all sorts of equipment. During the search for those helpful resources, I often came across blog posts and short videos, where (street)...
Summer is here and an academic year I thought to never end, finally made space for holidays (or working on my research projects). While bigger events are in preparation in growing the family from 3 to 4, I am back writing posts for the blog. From time to time, I was...
One of the privileges of my work as an academic is that you often have the opportunity to travel for presenting your research at scientific conferences. And while the conferences are hard work - submitting papers, preparing presentations, discussing the research with...
When out in the streets, you probably already came across multiple forms of art - or street art - such as statues, sculptures, and tags. I consider tags often as a double-edged sword: often they are really beautiful and stand as an art themselves; in other cases,...
Framed compositions present one important composition approach to photography and after last week's post on my first exploration of urban photography, I come back again with a couple of photos with a quasi-absence of people. Working with frame in frame compositions is...
On a recent occasion, I experimented with another type of photography, which is quite close to street in my understanding: urban photography. The trigger for that short adventure was a book again (probably a major vocational disease as an academic) by Eric Forey on...
Recently, I read a nice tip in one of the ebooks on (street) photography: participate in a photo contest. So far, I considered myself a slightly advanced beginner in street photography and the thought to submit my pictures to contests did not yet really come to...
Since the re-discovery of Elliott Erwitt's work as a source of inspiration thanks to my daughter and resulting in last week's post, I went out in the streets looking for occasions to create planned sequences - and not an ex-post created one I presented in the post...
Last week, I decided to look through the photography books I have on my bookshelf again for some inspiration. Seeing the books on the couch, my daughter started to be particularly interested in a series of three small books from the Photo Poche collection at the...
In my very first posts here, I explained that individuals - and often elderly ones - often attract my look as they often somewhat stand out from the crowd. This might be the case for example when they sit on a bench and everyone else is somewhat busy and hectic around...