Some pictures taken from a report produced for the city of Brussels on the day "Spring Place"

14h to 18h in four distinct areas of the Park of Brussels, the Circus School of Brussels

host shows and initiations at the circus. Courses of introduction to various techniques of circus shows, music, cabaret, children's area ...!

From 20:30, the park will be transformed into a veritable open-air tent for the "Night of the Circus." The venue will host artists and spectators will be the least original and incongruous! The program includes: a beautiful circus show with artists from Brussels, Walloon and Flemish, semi pro and professional, all in a magical setting-stralis!

The day the weather was extremely changeable between rain and sun, the brightness was very different, which explains the rather different color temperatures, most of the portraits and photographs of artists have been carried out at 85 1.4, which allowed me to isolate a maximum of background.

The grand opening of 85 was very useful for photos of the evening, artists being very low light.

As in concert to limit the maximum noise images of the evening was exposed "to the right of the histogram," the goal is to expose more loan exposure without "burning" certain areas of the image, the dynamics of digital boxes still lying in the highlights. (Volker offers a very good article about the exhibition of raw format ).

It is important to regularly monitor are RGB histogram on the device to make sure not to burn out areas in the performance of this technique

New Screen

My Sony Trinitron 24 "(50 kilos on the scales) began to show great signs of weakness (in terms of brightness and sharpness), I finally decide to change it to spend on a flat screen.

I spent a few evenings to visit comparisons online, several sites and many forums seem to agree that the Dell 2408WFP seemed a good compromise in terms of quality and price. 's article on Jean-Francois Vibert macandphoto.com his blog has finally convinced me

The technical characteristics of the screen

- Screen Size: 24 inch widescreen
- Optimum resolution: 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz
- Pixel Pitch: 0.27 mm
- Brightness (typical): 400 cd/m2
- Range of colors (standard): TrueColor Technology (110%)
- Dynamic Contrast Ratio (typical): 3000:1
- Viewing Angle (typical): 178 ° (horizontal) / 178 ° (vertical)
- Memory Card Reader: Card reader 9 in 2
- Response time (typical): 6 ms gray to gray (PVA panel type)
- Surface of the screen: anti-glare
- Weight: 9.58kg
- Connectors / Video Input: 1xVGA, 2xDVI (HDCP), 1xHDMI (HDCP), 1xDisplayPort, Composite, S-video.

Speed ​​of service delivery dell amazed me, I ordered the screen on the Dell website on Tuesday afternoon, the screen was delivered the next day. I benefit appears an on-site warranty of 3 years and a zero dead pixel warranty which is still very significant for a screen of this caliber.

First things that are obvious to me by viewing my images: Images of the site are mostly too sharpenisées, my CRT was clearly less accurate in terms of sharpness in the future the images posted on the site will be less sharpenisées

To my surprise the dynamics of the Dell surpasses my sony tube, I made a wave with a dedicated tool calibration, this weekend will be a probe calibration task.