During my career as a professional photographer I developed some skills and a lot of opinions about most aspects of digital photography, which I intend to share here.

I would like to warn you that most of the information presented in this site represent my personal opinions and can not be considered as absolute truths. In fact, I doubt that such a thing really exists.

Like most professional photographers, I was at first a keen amateur photographer. Photography is a wonderful hobby, and when it is approached with the right information on hand it will offer a tremendous amount of satisfaction.

You will enjoy the most your photography hobby by getting the results you desire, be them convenience, high quality landscapes, sport or macro images, big prints, web images or any other goal you have in mind.

To get the images you have in mind, you will need the right equipment and some digital photography and post processing knowledge.

Strange enough, the digital photography is at the same time easier and more complicated than film photography.

Easier because you can instantly see the results in the field and apply any corrections needed. You also have the post processing advantage to help you further improve the results.

More complicated because of the inherent complexity of the cameras and the need for computers, software and processing time to allow you to get the most from your images.

The following articles and reviews are directed to the photographers which either own or plan to get a digital SLR camera.

About me

I specialize in Corporate photography, so my main business is around companies, doing from manager portraits to industrial images and products. This presents me with a lot of different challenges every week, keeping me from getting bored about photography You can visit my corporate and editorial photography site or my wedding photography site.

My expertise, which my clients most appreciate, is making images that present their companies in the best possible light, to the extent that they prefer showing the photographs instead of allowing other people to actually visit the premises.

My first contact with photography was at the age of 6 when I received my first camera. It was the time of black & white films and wet darkrooms, of which I had my fair share of experiments, work and fun.

Eventually, my photography hobby turned into a career in 1987. After several jobs, including newspapers and magazines work, I started my own photography business in 1994 and it was successful enough to keep me happy to this day.
My photo equipment

In the beginning I was shooting mostly 35mm film, negative at work and slides for my own pleasure. I used Canon cameras in the FD mount era and I switched to Nikon in 1992.

When I started to seriously work for the magazines, I shot a lot of slide film using my Hasselblad 500 series cameras and a few amazing Zeiss lenses until going totally digital in 2001.

Shooting slides with a Hasselblad 500 series is a very enlightening experience about the photographic image quality concept and using a Polaroid back on that system with its 2 min. processing time can teach one a lot about “real time” feedback.
Digital photo equipment:

My first digital camera was an Olympus E-10, from which I still have in my portfolio some full pages published in glossy magazines. Of course, today the Oly E-10 may seem from the stone age at 4 megapixel, but it was among the first affordable competent digital cameras, suitable for professional work.

Than Nikon D100 went to the market and since I already was a Nikon photographer, the choice was easy. The Nikon D100 delivered very good results if shot in RAW and in 2003 a resolution of 6 megapixels was plenty.

In 2005 I got the Fuji S3 pro which was very well suited to my style, giving me very good results in surprisingly different types of assignments.

The DSLRs manufacturers are not happy if you don’t buy a camera every year so I’ve got the Nikon D200 in 2006 and the Fuji S5 pro in 2007.

The Nikon D300 was a little early to the market after the Fuji S5 so I had to get it in late 2007 too.

Of course, I use various Nikon mount lenses, flashes, and studio equipment.

On the computer side, I use both PC and Mac. This site, as all my Internet work, is done on a Mac because I didn’t get on the internet on a Windows machine since 2003.