Spring is just around the corner and my urge as a passionate nature photographer, is to jump in my car and drive to the nearest national or provincial park and take photos of  wildlife as they emerge from the cold slumber of winter. I get a real kick out of observing wildlife in their natural habitat and I do need to practice some important strategies if I want to capture those perfect wildlife photos from the driver’s seat of my car.

So I thought I would share with you how to take wildlife photos from the car to get those perfect shots.  So let’s Continue Reading »

Yanik’s Photo School in partnership with DIYPhotography.net, is giving away 3 Bokeh Masters Kits! It was all done via Twitter and the response was superbe!

I would like to thank all of you for participating. Unfortunately, only 3 of you with be the lucky ones soon sporting the new Bokeh Masters Kit. So without further ado, here are the 3 winners…. drum roll please….. drrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Continue Reading »

It had to happen at some point….. roughly 3 days ago Yanik’s Photo School got a bug. The only page you could access was the index page.  All other links were corrupted.

The thing is that I was on a shoot and then went directly out of town for the weekend none the wiser. Boy was I surprised when I accessed YPS on Saturday to find out it was down! PANIC! I tried installing a backup… nothing.  I tried re-posting some content…. nothing. I googled far and wide in cyber space to find any hint… nothing. I called my server to see if they had done something… nope.

It was only today that I finally found out what had happened. The htacces file had vanished. How and why is still a mystery since I hadn’t touched YPS before the event. The happy thing is that all is back in order!

Udi over at DIYPhotography.net sent me a Bokeh Masters Kit a while back and asked me to play around with it and give him my impressions. I actually wrote a detailed review for all of you back in December.

If you’re too lazy to read my review, I can sum it all up by saying that it’s a unique camera ad-on that’s well worth it for anyone looking to produce original and creative imagery.

I like the Bokeh Masters Kit so much that I asked Udi if I could give a few away here on YPS.  So guess what? Yanik’s Photo School has Continue Reading »

I don’t remember that last time I did some self portraits. It’s the old photographer’s dilemma… always behind the lens and never in front of it! Since I live about a block away from my good buddy and fellow pro photographer Martin Perreault, he usually takes my photo.  But this time around, he was away on a 3 week trip to Australia and I really wanted to update my blog photo on the ABOUT YPS page.

I decided to make this a fun time and turn this into a mini fashion shoot with some of my recently acquired threads. So I cranked up the tunes, set my D300s on a tripod with a 10 second timer and shot away! It took about 2 hours in total with 163 shots taken. Out of those shots I liked 22. Not bad.  Here’s how I Continue Reading »

If you haven’t heard yet, Lightroom 2 is great! Ok, ok you might have heard me mention it a few times but learning is about repetition. 

So here I was post processing my Greece photos in Lightroom playing around with the main basic adjustment sliders when I thought to myself… hey! this kinda looks like an HDR photo. So I tweaked and tweaked until I got a pretty cool HDR look that looked cool. Then I thought that you guys might like to know how to do it too.  So here I am.

Now, before I go on, and before the true Continue Reading »

Hello fellow photography enthusiast readers! It’s been close to two weeks since my latest post but I’m still here! I still haven’t figured out how to clone myself and the higher powers that may be have yet to increase the number of hours in a day. Lucky for me, I’m super busy with my photography business but at the same time this means a bit less time goes to Yanik’s Photo School.

For those of you wondering, YPS is still alive and kicking and I promise you new tutorials very soon. I have a couple in the works and I just have to get around finishing them up for you. I even created some cool Lightroom Continue Reading »

I truly hope that all of you are enjoying this festive season and that you’re taking lots and lots of pictures!

Before sharing with you the top 5 most popular  tutorials on YPS,  I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support. 2009 was YPS’s first full year live on the Web. It’s still a baby at only 21 months. I’m filled with gratitude knowing that my posts are helping many passionate photographers from around the world.  Your comments and support keep giving me the motivation to keep sharing my knowledge and photography Continue Reading »

I would like to take a few minutes and wish all of the YPS followers and their loved ones warm wishes for this wonderful holiday season. May your holidays and 2010 be filled with love, joy and most of all…. tons and tons of photos!!!

What are your photography related resolutions for 2010?

Mine are:

- Keep on learning and improving my art through you and Yanik’s Photo School
- Meeting some of the pro photographers that have influenced me along my wonderful journey as a photographer
- Giving back at a deeper level than photography (big project here)

Inspire us and share yours with us!!!

Happy Holidays!

Yanik

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know that I recently did a big 12 day shoot for one of my favorite clients. My main mandate was to shoot well composed,  evenly lit photos to be used in a new edition of their best selling didactic cosmetology book. As a second mandate, I had to produce “artistic” shots to be used as chapter openers and page fillers.

So the first thing I asked them was what they meant by “artistic”. You know Yanik, dramatic stuff with cool shadows and Continue Reading »