Natural photography from Jean-Michel VOLAT
Paris, FRANCE
First uploaded photo: October 27, 2007
Flickr User ID: 88482099@N00
Some of my sets:
Je suis un photographe amateur et j'aime que mes photos soient le plus "naturelles" possible. Je développe le format digital Nikon NEF vers JPEG en corrigeant, si nécessaire l'exposition, la netteté, les basses lumières et parfois en recadrant. Un peu comme on faisait auparavant en chambre noire... Je n'utilise pas les effets genre Photoshop.
Mon style est varié au point que je n'ai pas de style... C'est un défaut de débutant.
I am an amateur photographer and I like my photographs to be as "natural" as possible. I develop from the Nikon raw digital NEF format towards JPEG and I correct, if necessary, exposure, sharpness, low light and I may re-frame. A bit as was done in the past with film.
I do not use Photoshop type effects.
My style is varied to the point that I do not have any... It is a beginner's shortcoming...
Current:
Nikon D700 (purchased March 2010)
Nikon D300 (purchased May 2008)
Previously:
Nikon D200 (sold)
Nikon D70 (now my wife's spare camera)
Contax (film camera) with a lot of Carl Zeiss prime lenses... (sold).
Minolta SRT101: my first SLR (given to a relative)
Zoom AF-S Nikkor VR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Zoom AF-S Nikkor 18~200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED
Zoom AF-S Nikkor 12~24mm f/4 G ED
AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 G
Flash Nikon SB900
LumiQuest soft screen, LumiQuest ultrasoft
PictureProject, ViewNX, CaptureNX2, DxO
No no! No Photoshop! No HDR! No color filters! No tripod! No frames! No logo! No small sizes! No hiding my camera settings! No preventing download!
Yes yes! My pictures are fully protected (c) Copyright Jean-Michel VOLAT. Please ask me before any use!
Les pays que j'ai visités... The countries I visited...
Seen in Explore:
1. Autumn sun in Paris, 2. Stairs, 3. Just perfect, 4. The pleasure of climbing Mount Fuji - 1, 5. Underground in Paris, 6. Macarons by Ladurée, 7. Fashion victim in Paris - 3, 8. The Champagne made from Pinot Meunier,
9. All that glitters..., 10. La chapelle haute Saint-Saturnin, 11. Brazil craze in Paris, 12. Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione - 2, 13. Musée d'Orsay - 2, 14. Meeting at the top level in Paris, 15. Locked in love forever in Paris, 16. Have a nice week end !,
17. Thinking seriously about buying a flat in a bourgeois area in Paris but not the 16th because it is dead, 18. Blue without the blues, 19. Big Ben? No, Gare de Lyon in Paris, 20. The vault - 2, 21. Over the bridge, 22. "The 1950€ shoes" or "The post-crisis consumer", 23. Seine Seine Seine, 24. Palais de la porte Dorée,
25. GENESIS by Sebastião Salgado, 26. Vanishing point - 11, 27. The armchair (1), 28. Vanishing point - 2, 29. ||=, 30. Jazz at Pont des Arts, 31. Jazz at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 32. Shooting art 6,
33. A cook to be kissed, 34. 22h50 at Café des Musées, 35. The beefsteak tomatoes, 36. Parisien buying Le Parisien - B&W, 37. Never tired of those windows - 1, 38. Mwahhhh... I love that Nikon !, 39. Parisien buying Le Parisien, 40. Café du commerce - 2,
41. The parting kiss?, 42. At the Paris Photography Meetup Group, 43. The parting kiss?, 44. At the Paris Photography Meetup Group, 45. Le dernier métro, 46. The finalists, 47. Trocadero - 3, 48. Trocadero - 1,
49. The arums, 50. Marilyn still popular in Paris, 51. The glass of beer, 52. Henna and mint tea, 53. Douce loves Nikon too..., 54. Bouquet - 1, 55. The couple, 56. Réclame 140€,
57. Lychee Lychee Lychee Lychee Lychee Lychee Lychee Lychee, 58. Plasticity - 1, 59. The veil, 60. Sweet bottles, 61. Xmas at Notre Dame de Paris, 62. Water water, 63. Absinthe anyone ?, 64. The windy beach,
65. Monbazillac square, 66. Paris style 267, 67. 21h04 Tour Eiffel, 68. 21h57 Tour Eiffel, 69. Autumn in Paris - 2, 70. The green Trabant, 71. Douce on the carpet, 72. Orchidity
1. The Eiffel tower in blue - 1, 2. Feels good, 3. Regular irregularity, 4. The black shoes, 5. The blue eyes, 6. The red bag - 2, 7. Escher in Paris?, 8. Circular reflections going nowhere - 1, 9. Orchid 14, 10. A reflection on skyscrapers 10, 11. Cold, 12. Escher has the blues in Paris, 13. October 2008: a calendar for my Flickr friends, 14. Time to log off, 15. Arcades, 16. The Eiffel tower in blue - 2, 17. Double reflection, 18. The atelier - 1, 19. The haute couture top, 20. Corridor 1, 21. Orchid 35, 22. Orchid 26, 23. A rose is a rose or is it? - 19, 24. The green grid, 25. The curl, 26. A god's view of the Seine river, 27. The reels of thread, 28. The watering cans - 1, 29. Pink pond - 1, 30. Grainy rhythm, 31. A rose is a rose or is it? - 9, 32. Moket, 33. The watering cans - 2, 34. Limited infinite, 35. The Eiffel tower in blue - 7, 36. Red red
- JoinedJanuary 2006
- HometownParis
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I love to walk on Jean Michels images through wonderful Paris. There are so many places to discover and he, this wonderful photographer with his fantastic sense for the real Paris Style, is a great tour guide. Thank you so much for your wonderful images, Jean Michel. Thank you so much for your friendship. Petra
Your photostream is really fantastic! Keep posting more! Bravo!
... well, I'm not used to write testimonials or something similar (I'm too lazy... ) but I MUST have to write something about Jean-Michel! ... I love his ArtWorks because they are always particular, seducing and unique. He usually don't make almost any kind of Post Processing to his shots but... this demonstrate tha… Read more
... well, I'm not used to write testimonials or something similar (I'm too lazy... ) but I MUST have to write something about Jean-Michel! ... I love his ArtWorks because they are always particular, seducing and unique. He usually don't make almost any kind of Post Processing to his shots but... this demonstrate that he has a very special eye to catch the beauty in everything he looks at... ... he makes snapshots (amazing, anyway... )? Apparently this can be true but, if you look at his stream with a plain eye, you will find something really different: the world's inner vision of an uncommon creative mind... ... he makes Art, finally! :)
Read lessjmvnoos は私の夫です。 写真をとにかく機関銃のように撮りまくり、私を驚かした人ですが 今ではそれも何故か納得してます。 写真の魅力を彼からは色んな面で学びました。 このFlickrで趣味を共に楽しんでますが 彼からの進めも幸いし、またこちらでは初心者の私を 支えてくれながらと、とても嬉しい限りです。 Jean-Michel Merci pour tout! Bise. Erikomoket
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If you plan a walk through Jean-Michel's gallery, be sure to allow yourself enough time for a leisurely stroll. He will astound you with his astonishing images of his beautiful hometown, Paris. He lovingly documents the shops, museums, buildings and the amazing sites around his city as only a native Parisian can. JM'… Read more
If you plan a walk through Jean-Michel's gallery, be sure to allow yourself enough time for a leisurely stroll. He will astound you with his astonishing images of his beautiful hometown, Paris. He lovingly documents the shops, museums, buildings and the amazing sites around his city as only a native Parisian can. JM's photo's not only exude the elegance for which Paris is known, but also its charm and humor. His beautiful photographs are richly composed to give you only a taste, but you long for more. Venez avec un bon appetit! JM is generous to his fickr friends. His stream provides helpful tutorials and guides to making flickr a better experience. If you are fortunate to have JM comment on one of your photo's, he takes the time to dissect and critique your image with generous detail. His comments are a coveted prize in themselves! Each photo is a treasured gem. Keep them coming, Jean-Michel!
Read lessJean is like a spring wind, he goes blowing, sometimes, full of enthusiasm and he brings with him everythings that runs across and, then...it's very difficult to follow him! Sometimes, instead, he is warm wind of South, that has stolen the colours of sun... Sometimes he is a wizard and he gives life to its plastic qu… Read more
Jean is like a spring wind, he goes blowing, sometimes, full of enthusiasm and he brings with him everythings that runs across and, then...it's very difficult to follow him! Sometimes, instead, he is warm wind of South, that has stolen the colours of sun... Sometimes he is a wizard and he gives life to its plastic queens in the shop windows in the bright world of Paris. Last, but not least...Jean is my friend.
Read lessI remember the first thing of his works that I saw a photo of an epicerie fine where I had been too, it was quite a long time ago, since then I was dropping into his photostream very often and always finding a lot of interesting snaps; he has a real collection of truly impressive images depicting not only what he see… Read more
I remember the first thing of his works that I saw a photo of an epicerie fine where I had been too, it was quite a long time ago, since then I was dropping into his photostream very often and always finding a lot of interesting snaps; he has a real collection of truly impressive images depicting not only what he sees, but how he sees it; photos with a good sense of lightning, compositionally STRONG, a PLEASURE to look at; he took me back to Paris for a journey, showed me some faces of Paris which I had tried to remove from my mind and made me "live" Paris again without being hurt by my memories; his Paris pics are filled with very good atmosphere; he's got a good eye and this rare ability to stop the moments in time; I love your latest photos of shops. Last but not least, he is a citizen not only of Paris but of the world, I enjoy exchanging opinions about our life experiences abroad, travelling, fine food... KEEP THIS WONDERFUL WORK UP !!!! La seule amitié qui vaille est celle qui naît sans raison...c''est une des raisons pour laquelle je te dis: Merci de ton amitié et sensibilité
Read lessJean-Michel is a prolific photographer whose intelligence and talent shines from every photograph. He has an uncanny eye for design and elegance, for pattern, dissymmetry, light and shade. He is not afraid of exploring the contentious or of opening up a topic for vigorous debate, in fact he encourages it. His photograp… Read more
Jean-Michel is a prolific photographer whose intelligence and talent shines from every photograph. He has an uncanny eye for design and elegance, for pattern, dissymmetry, light and shade. He is not afraid of exploring the contentious or of opening up a topic for vigorous debate, in fact he encourages it. His photographs show us life on the streets of Paris as we have never seen it before and I, for one, am enjoying the trip immensely. Most of all though, JM is a master of manipulating light which he does with a hand-held camera using skillful settings. And if that were not enough he is charming, supportive and kind, the sum of which adds up to a most charismatic personality. Long may you continue to delight all of us with your unique, intelligent and compassionate perspective on life.
Read lessABSOLUTELY STUNNING PHOTOS! WOW! What fun it is to walk through the streets and to the fun events of jmvnoos' PARIS! So great at capturing the natural settings of various interesting places. The photos of the GUIMET MUSEE are museum quality surburb! The SHOWROOM DUMMIES set is stunning! Probally the most di… Read more
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING PHOTOS! WOW! What fun it is to walk through the streets and to the fun events of jmvnoos' PARIS! So great at capturing the natural settings of various interesting places. The photos of the GUIMET MUSEE are museum quality surburb! The SHOWROOM DUMMIES set is stunning! Probally the most difficult 'object' to photograph, jmvnoos does so with artistic ease! MERCI jmvnoos for the wonderful walk down memory 'rue' of Paris!
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