Tommy

Photography allows me to be what I want to be, to be where I want to be, and to do what I want to do ... I'm not professional photographer and I don't need a title, I love to take photographs and that is what I do, I love to learn and I always try to do it better ...

Revisiting 500px

I presented 500px a while ago and I think it is time to talk about the boys again. First because anybody who quotes me as a photography reference deserves some free advertisement (in the upgrade section)! Second, because they really improved the site in the last two months!…

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Very cool timelapse from NY

I love timelapse and when they are coupled with good cinematography, they are even better. Here is a great one from New York I just stumbled upon (as in I click on every single Vimeo clip I see with nice poster frame).…

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Get Aperture on the AppStore for 80$!

In case you did not know, the Apple App Store is now available (need to update OSX first) and there are some great deals! The best of these, from what I have found so far, is Aperture for only 80$! While I am now a converted LightRoom user, I can tell you one thing: at this price point Aperture is a much better value for the budget conscious photographer.…

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1000fps using only Final Cut Studio

Patrick from CrumplePop (btw go check their products) just sent me info about his workflow to achieve ridiculous slow motion effect without using Twixtor. The process is quite simple: shooting at 60fps and retiming in Motion using optical flow then play back the clip at 24fps.…

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2011: setting goals

I read this a while ago on Marc Andre Cournoyer blog (A Montreal based Ruby developer)

Knowing where you’re going greatly increase your chances of getting there.
and loved the idea of setting yearly goals. Since posting them on the internet would increase their odds of success, here is my list for 2011:

Double daily traffic on this blog

While this blog has a steady flow of traffic, I would love to see it grow even more.…

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The Rebel 550 4K Hack…

In case you did not know, there is a guy pretending that he hacked the Rebel 550 to record 4K clips. More info on Planet5D here. When I initially saw the teaser video, I discarded it has some hoax and did not act on it, given my very bad track record with rumors.…

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