Alain Schneuwly Photography

Czech Folklore

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:29:20 +0200

For those who know the Czech lands and spent a bit of time here, I am positive you will recognize in this Czech Folklore multimedia slideshow some familiar scenes of daily life here. Enjoy.

Poprad & High Tatras Mountains

20 Aug 2007 23:30:45 GMT

In France we have the Alps, in Slovakia they have the High Tatra mountains, a mountain range forming a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. At the foot of the Tatra is town of Poprad, developing very quickly thanks to tourism. Of course, it is a place where you find still a lot of old Skodas and panelaky for those nostalgic of the communist era.

Ile d'Yeu - Small French Paradise

20 Aug 2007 21:39:17 GMT

If you are too choose to rest on the French Atlantic coast, I really recommend you go to Ile d'Yeu, a small French paradise, some 18km off the coast. I have spent two weeks on this small island in July and did not have enough of sea, sun, seafood, aperitifs, and of course taking photographs. Judge by yourself.

Up and Running

16 Aug 2007 00:06:13 GMT

After a few months of absence, I am finally back on line and I will bring you shortly some new pictures from the High Tatras in Slovakia and also from Ile d Yeu in France. I will be presenting my photographs using Soundslides, a great tool to produce appealing image and audio web presentations which I recently used to showcase the photographs of the Awakening exhibition of my friend and photographer Irena Moore. Come back in a couple of days for more.

Back in Bratislava

7 Mar 2007 20:39:10 GMT

When I came back to Prague in June 2006, after three years of assignment in Bratislava, I thought I would not return to Slovakia so soon. Well, life is full of surprise when you work for Big Time Consulting, and today I arrived in Bratislava, for what it seems another year and a half. It could be much worse location and I look at it from a positive side: temperature today was around 15° C, very nice, you could feel spring is already here as women start to dress again properly ;-), so far so good. Anyway I keep you posted on my upcoming adventures with an updated Slovak gallery. Dovidenia.

Photo equipment, digital workflow, etc...

5 Mar 2007 23:01:16 GMT

People ask me often what is my photographic equipment, what lenses, what software do I use for my digital workflow, do I only shoot digital ? Here are some answers.

Let's start with the most important in my view : Lenses. I own three lenses, a 17-35 2.8L, a 28-70 2.8L and a 70-200 2.8L. These lenses belong to Canon's professional line, they are expensive but I have owned them for 10 years and they have never failed me. Most importantly they provide superior image quality. Spend your money on lenses and not on camera body unless you have a very specific need.

Body - I have switched to digital back in December 2003 when I brought my first Canon 300D. Three years later in December 2006, I switched to the Canon EOS 400 D, which has 50% more pixel than the 300D, allowing me to do nice 30x45 cm prints. It is the entry level Canon Digital Reflex body, but it is very advanced and if like me you do street photography, people, landscape sometimes and you do not need to shoot 10 frames per second under heavy rain, then it is your camera, believe me but attach to it good lenses.

Now in terms of Format, I shoot exclusively in RAW, which provides me full control over images quality when I process them in my Digital work flow solution, Adobe Lightroom. I use Lightroom as a picture library and digital work flow tool. In the development module you have so many controls and ways to develop your picture that unless, you need to do something very specific like retouching in details your picture, you do not need Photoshop.

Prokop - already one year and a half

4 Mar 2007 08:39:52 GMT

Here we are, Prokop is now 1 year and half and doing very well. He is a big time certik at times (little devil in Czech), but we forgive him for now...

Biarritz

4 Mar 2007 07:53:50 GMT

Biarritz, South of West of France. I was lucky enough during our 2 weeks in Biarritz to see a big storm and with a bit of patience managed to frame this picture of the lightning. Our terrace was facing directly this impression rock, and you will see many more interesting pictures of it under different light conditions in the Biarritz gallery . Also of course, I have published my favorites of people enjoying the beach, the surf, the sun...

Welcome

4 Mar 2007 08:18:20 GMT

I have made the jump and I am finally publishing news, updates regarding my website using an RSS feed. You can of subscribe to it by clicking here to read in your favorite RSS reader or by simply coming back to this page. I am actually delighted as I have been looking for a simple solution for a little while. I hope you will like it and come back often.