When lovers meet again...
It was on a cold and rainy evening: January 22, 2014. I had a walk from Austerlitz to le Jardin des Plantes and I was now walking down...
The decisive moment
The decisive moment is a concept introduced by Magnum co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson to designate the right moment to take a picture....
Understand: sensitivity
Sensitivity is the last of three parameters that influence exposure. The first one is aperture that defines the amount of light that...
The worker of Place Dauphine
Last Sunday morning, I was leaving Place Dauphine towards Pont-Neuf when I noticed that woman going out to take a break from work. As I...
Understand: exposure time
Exposure is the amount of light detected by the photosensitive element inside a camera. For analog cameras, the photosensitive element is...
Understand: aperture
Exposure is the quantity of light detected by the photosensitive element (photographic film for analog cameras, or a digital sensor for...
Understand: the exposure triangle
In photography, exposure is the quantity of light detected by the photosensitive element (photographic film for analog cameras, or a...
Four important things you should know about light
In photography, light is the key. It's the photographer's raw material, as photography literally means drawing with light. Here are the...
Contact sheets - A smile to the unknown
It was three years ago, on the 1st of April 2013. I was sitting at La Terrasse Sainte-Catherine, a café in Paris, and I had my M8 and...
The four purposes of post-processing
Whether for digital or film photography, post-processing is an essential step into the image creation process. However, there are so many...