I took a quick peek at your site - some very nice photos there. I'm also really impressed with the website itself - did you do all of the design and development yourself?

Thanks for sharing your photos with us Laurent! What kind of camera do you have? The photos look like they were taken with a DSLR.

As for feedback, I think your photos are nice and consistent, but only a couple really jumped out at me (such as the one of Mathieu Gallot-Lavallee on the 8b+). I feel like many of them could be improved with slight changes in framing, and perhaps some selective focus by using a larger aperture and a zoom to narrow the depth of field. For instance, a couple of the bouldering shots looked like they were taken right before or right after the "hard" move, and that perhaps you'd just missed the climber making a great grimace! The thing with climbing photography is that unless by chance there is either an amazing view or amazing light or something, many climbing photos look similar, so it is up to the photographer to find a new and unique viewpoint with which to portray your interpretations of climbing (rather than just "documenting" a climb pictorially). This is something I, myself, am still struggling with, and I suspect that it will be an ongoing process.

Otherwise, though, good job and keep the photos coming! The site is great, too, by the way; you did a really good job designing it. My only comment about it is that the "please wait while the photo loads" screen, with the little flower graphics, gets kind of old after a few photos. You could let the photos load immediately and then have the info pop up more slowly on the side, like it does now (which I think is very cool).

I hope this helps!

I bought a Nikon D70 with Nikkor 18-70. I'd like to use selective focus with a zoom but my 70 mm is too short. I tried to play with aperture but results didn't follow (maybe I should try again ?). I'd like to buy something like 80-200 but I have to save money before.

Concerning bouldering pictures, I know that many of them looks very basic but it was difficult for me to gather more stuff in one year. And there are not so many bouldering spots near the place where I live.

Concerning the "hard move", I first believed that only hard moves could give good shots. But now I do not concentrate on such moves, I'm still trying to find interesting position but I feel as much concerned by colors and geometry around the climber. I know professionnal photographers that really works with their climbers : I mean the climber do not climb, he just repeat moves until the shot is good. I've never worked like this. I've only shot people while they are climbing. It may explain why I miss interesting action ?

Concerning flash effects, I only tried to replace that ugly loading bar with something more funny to watch but I understand could find it boring after a while. I'll try to improve that.

Thanks all for your feedback, it is very interesting for me.

The lens factor on the D70 is 1.5, so your lens is actually the equivalent of 42-105mm. For sport climbing, or other situations when your options are limited as to where you can be in relation to the climber, that may not be long enough, but in many situations, 105mm is probably long enough to throw your background out of focus. The aperture of the kit lens that comes with the D70 is f3.5-4.5, so just use aperture priority at f3.5, and when you zoom, the camera will automatically switch it to f4.5 and adjust the exposure. Basically, the wider your aperture, and the more zoomed in you are, the narrower the depth of field will appear in your photo. Also, it helps if the thing you are focusing on is closer to you than the background, because depth of field is 1/3 in front of and 2/3 behind the subject. I'm sure if you go experiment with the camera for a bit, you'll come up with some some interesting shots.

I hope that helps.

Thanks for your answer but I have to add a few remarks :

- You are right, lens factor is 1.5 but if you multiply my 18-70 by 1.5, you do not obtain 42-105 !!! It give 27-105 (I want to keep my wide-angle :-) )
- I've already try to zoom at 70mm (effective 105) with aperture priority locked on f4.5 but it didn't reduce significantly my depth field. I would really like to control this effect because I like to use it more but I guess I'll have to wait for another kit lens with wider aperture or bigger zoom.