September 2009

Don’t have the budget to purchase Adobe Photoshop? Then The GIMP might just have everything you need to edit your photos. What is GIMP? GIMP is short for: GNU Image Manipulation Program and comes with a customizable interface, photo enhancement features and advanced digital retouching techniques. Operating on a wide range of platforms (PC, Linux, [...]

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, apart from being widely known as a French painter from the post-impressionnist period, was often commissioned to produce printed posters to advertise entertaining subjects. Remarkably expressive, this French poster created at the request of photographer Paul Sescau, has much to say about Toulouse-Lautrec’s  fine rendering of personnalities… The photographer Paul Sescau was one [...]

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Up until the 60′s, B&W photography dominated over color photography. Nevertheless, some photographers experienced with colors even before Auguste et Louis Lumière produced in 1907 the Autochrome plates enabling color photography. Think of Edward Steichen’s (1879-1973) famous The Pond-Moonlight photograph. It was taken in 1904 in Mamaroneck, New York depicting a pond in wooded area, [...]

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