Apple vs Samsung: Who won?

By On 26/08/2012

You probably already know that Apple won a major victory in their court battles against Samsung this weekend. The jury awarded Apple more than 1 billion dollar, because it felt that it was proven that Samsung did indeed shamelessly copy the Apple iPhone and the Apple iOS. That verdict was to be expected. Just one [...]

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Panorama photos published

By On 16/08/2012

My friends from the Bushcamp Company in Zambia have now put a nice large series of my 360° panorama photos on their website. They use one image on the different pages for each individual camp, and they have one page with the entire series.

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Wildlife with wide angle

By On 14/08/2012

Wildlife photographers have a tendency to always pick that long telephoto lens. Even on their Facebook profile picture most of them hide their faces behind such a lens. Wildlife photography with a short focal length can be very rewarding, though. It gives you the chance of showing the animal in its natural habitat. This image, [...]

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The time of day

By On 08/08/2012

In all books and articles about nature photography you can read about the importance of the time of day. Generally, the best time to photograph landscapes is in the early morning and the late afternoon. The low angle of the sun makes nice long shadows and the light is not as harsh as it can [...]

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Photoshop Tip: Image Processor

By On 03/08/2012

I often see questions in Adobe Photoshop forums about how to write an action or script that takes a folder of images, resizes them and saves them as TIFF or JPEG or both. Mixed portrait and landscape orientation seems to be a special problem for most people who are trying to do that. The solution [...]

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