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My favorites Photographers blogs

Olivier M. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:36:48 +0000

Lately, some of my friends asked me what are the best photographers blogs on internet.
I answered swiftly: “It depends of your own artistic view, after all, the best blog for a fashion photographer is different than the one for a wedding photographer”.
But I still promised that I’ll do a post with my own favorites! And I think in a future post I’ll write about my favorites websites too.
So here we go:

Blogs I check almost everyday:
- Strobist The best place to learn some new tricks for your lighting equipment!
- Chase Jarvis This guy is… Wait for it… Awesome! Really, he is a good photographer and never hesitates to share his thoughts with the community!
- Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider Lot’s of infos on photoshop and lightroom, great guests posts etc… A must!

Blogs I check once a week:

- Joe McNally’s Damn I dig this guy, he’s Funny and incredibly talented : Give him a speedlight and he’ll do a good shoot anywhere! (Even at the top of the empire state building)
- Zack Arias His Onelight Dvd is a must have for a beginner photographer and the blog is full of good tips!
- Vincent Laforet I think he is more a filmmaker than a photographer nowadays but, hell, he is good! (Remember the first canon 5DmkII video ‘Reverie’ shoot in 2days? It’s him!)
- Lighting-Essentials Don GIannatti aka Wizwow is a strong opinionated guy and I like that! Well his blog is also full of tips to learn how to light!
- Canon Rumors Well I’m a Canon Shooter and a Geek! (Worry not my Nikon lovers: Nikon Rumors is the place for you!)

Blogs I check sometimes:
- Joey L The young prodigy!
- Melissa Rodwell Nice Advices on the Fashion world!
- Lightroom Killer Tips By Matt Kloskowski hey I use lightroom for 80% of all my photos needs
- The F STOP mag Lot’s of pictures to activate your creativity
- Drew Gardner A talented Photographer who doesn’t blog enough! But when he does, it’s always interesting.

And that’s it! And you what are your favorites blogs, the ones you check everyday?

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Barcelona Mini-retirement

Olivier M. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:46:35 +0000

Following Tim Ferriss Advice in his book The 4-Hour workweek, I’m taking my first ‘mini-retirement’ in May, I’ll spend 5 weeks in Barcelona, I’ve rent a nice flat (no hotel this time) and took my flight tickets. I’m planning to (re)learn spanish and try new things like Learning Salsa or just take my time to make new friends.

It’s my ‘first’ time choosing to go alone somewhere, I mean all of my life I traveled with friends, girlfriends or relatives and never really alone, I think reinventing yourself and creating new challenges, whether your a photograph or not, is always a good thing.
If, like me, your someone who gets bored really fast, you should really read Tim Ferriss book’s, it could open your eyes on so many things.

I hesitated a lot for this first mini-retirement between New-York and Barcelona but in the end I knew I wanted to spend at least 2-3 months in New-York, while this time I could only leave for 1 month, so Barcelona became the obvious choice.

I’ve already been to Barcelona last year for 14 days and enjoyed it, but I really didn’t do many things while in there, so this time I’ll really try to live like a Local, and shoot everything I can with my conpadre the 5D MKII !

You can see below some photos I took last year, with my little canon G10, I did travel light and regretted it, so seriously guys, if your a photographer don’t be a pussy and just take your big gun everywhere with you!

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5D Mark II Firmware 1.1.0 Available

Olivier M. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:32:36 +0000

The long awaited firmware update for my beloved Canon 5D MKII is here! We finally get manual settings for the video mode, yes !! And there’s some minor bug fix too, for others functions. Maybe I’ll try to shoot some videos with the 5D now.

So if you’ve got one, go update it here:
http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos5dmk2/firmware.html

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Camille first Shooting

Olivier M. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:21:32 +0000

Last week I was finally able to try my new camera in a real shooting with Camille. It was her first time in a studio shoot. She Had to warm up for a little time but after she was doing pretty good, a natural cute girl.
I have to say the 5D MKII is quite incredible, so much better than the first one or the 40D.

I had a small problem though, I shoot tethered to my macbook and lightroom 2 and sometimes when I took a lot of frames very fast, they wouldn’t be downloaded on the computer and I had to disconnect the camera (happily the photos were still saved on the memory card) don’t know if it’s because of the large raw files but i’ll have to test this again.

The shoot was done the strobist way, with 3 canon 580 EXII, pocket wizard, one softbox Wescott JS Appolo 70×70cm and one shoot through white umbrella.