I rarely do individual book reviews but when Uwe Skrzypczak, the author of the book Wildlife Photography, sent me a copy, I quickly found out that this wasn’t just a book with beautiful photos.

Wildlife photography goes beyond the photos and gives detailed practical advice on equipment, techniques and workflow.

The book is divided into 9 chapters and as you can see, the first 5 are all about photography education (over 80 pages!):
1- Equipment
2- Shooting Techniques Continue Reading »

A few months ago, I received diyphotography.net‘s DIY Ring Flash Kit to play with and I finally had some spare time to build it and test it out. Here is my review of the DIY Ring Flash Kit.

What’s in the box

- Ring Flash Bracket (a $9.95 option that’s a must have)
- Inner sliver ring Continue Reading »

As you guys know, I’ve been working on a top secret project for the better part of 9 months and I can officially talk about it now!

My long time friend and pro photographer Martin Perreault and I were working hard to create the best Continue Reading »

Hello fellow YPS readers! I’m finally back with a new Photoshop Video Tutorial!

This is a quick and easy tutorial on how to create awesome grunge effects in Photoshop simply by using blending modes. All you need is one of your photos, a texture and Photoshop! If you don,t have textures, just go out and shoot your sidewalk, walls or whatever that looks good. Or if you’re too lazy, just Google “free textures”.

Enjoy the tutorial and stay tunes soon for details on Continue Reading »

Hello fellow YPS readers!

Just a quick note to let you guys know that I was recently interviewed over at Smartpress.com. So if you want to get to know me just a little bit more, head over there and enjoy the article. You’ll also see a few photos of my commercial work; stuff I haven’t shown here on YPS. Have fun!

Hello Everybody!

It’s been a while since I posted… November… but not to worry. I’m in good spirits!

The reason why the crickets are chirping here is that I’m super busy on other important projects in my personal and professional life. On a personal level, I’m moving house in a few weeks so you can imagine that the last few months or so have been hectic to say the least. I’m in boxes up to my wazu!

And professionally… I can’t really give you details right now but you’ll know soon enough when all the wheels will be set in motion. The only hint I can give you is Continue Reading »

A while back I had the pleasure of being part of a wonderful team of creators that all gave their time and talent for a very special photo shoot. My friend and talented makeup artist Catherine Lavoie, had a vision for doing a fashion shoot depicting the 5 stages of Joan of Arc’s (Jeanne d’Arc) life. She started by drawing colored sketches of her vision and from there assembled her team to bring her imagination into reality.

Shot over 2 days at the BlahBlah studio here in Montreal, the team gelled well together and we all had a blast! The photographer Continue Reading »

Christmas is almost upon us and you’re probably wondering, once again, what to get that special someone who never stops taking photos. So here’s my list of top books that make the perfect gift this holiday season! Many of the books are the same as last year because I just haven’t found any yet that are better.

I’ll be focusing on the most obvious for an educational site like Yanik’s Photo School… photography books, of course! We all love reading them but we also want good ones! There are some lemons out there (I have a few) so let me weed out the bad stuff and make some good old fashion lemonade! The links are to Amazon so you can be  guarantied to get them before Continue Reading »

Beautiful Costa Rica! What can I say… I had a blast! 2 weeks of pure pleasure. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ve seen some of my Costa Rica iPhone shots and video clips as my trip progressed. I even did a “before and after” Lightroom video tutorial on one of my photos.

All I can say is WOW! If you love nature and wildlife, you’ll be like a kid in a candy store over there. Get yourself a 4×4 jeep, a GoPro HD video camera and just let your imagination run wild. You won’t regret it!

For video clips I mainly used my D300s and my GoPro HD (with helmet gear and suction cup for the jeep).  Doing video with the Nikon D300s with a 80-400mm VR lens on was remarkable. I got chills filming Continue Reading »

For those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll know that I recently took a lovely trip to Costa Rica. Of course, traveling means travel photography (and video)! And, in Costa Rica, you focus on nature in all its grandeur! Of course the wildlife was at the forefront of my imagery including tons of birds but the landscape was also breathtaking.

In this Lightroom video tutorial, I’ll show you how to bring the most potential out of your landscape images. You can apply these Continue Reading »