About

Hello, I’m Yoann Thiébaut-George, and welcome to my photographic experiments pages !

I got my first camera and quickly became a passionate self-taught photographer in the early 2000’s, during my Arts studies.
Since then, I enjoy shooting rich and vibrant scenes of both urban and natural environments.
I ‘m trying to take pictures which can be appreciated both as a whole image, but also including many sub-zones with plenty of tiny details, where the eye can linger for a moment.
Some of them appearing only after multiple inspections, providing some interest in re-viewing them more than once, and still having new things to discover within them.

As I’m curious about both the smaller and larger scales of nature, Macro/Ultra-Macro and Astrophotography naturally added to my photographic hobbies along the way.
Over the years, I’ve learned a lot by trial and error, and internet ressources =)

Visited Locations:

French Guyana / Martinique island / Réunion island / England / Australia & Austria / USA / Switzerland / South Africa / Brazil / China / Dubaï / Qatar / Italy / Spain / Belgium / Netherland / Germany / Slovakia / Venezuela / Singapore / Hong-Kong / Indonesia / Greece… and many more are still on the To-Go list !

Specific techniques used:

High Dynamic Range imaging including Pre&Post-Processing – UltraMacro (2x-12x) Focus Stacking – Astronomy Frame Stacking

Photo Gear doesn’t make a good photographer. But…some higher-end lenses/sensors combos clearly helped me getting way better pictures than with my earlier kits.
Tutorials & softwares/plugins training in general has also helped me achieving higher quality results through pre- and post-processing of my raw files.
Most of my photo gear has been bought second-hand, and here’s the humble log so far :

Past cameras & lenses (2002-2018)

• Bodies: Sony Cybershot DSC-P71 -> Canon EOS 400D -> Canon Eos 50D -> Canon EOS 7D & Grip
• Lenses:
  – Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS f/3.5-5.6
  – EF 50mm f/1.8 II
  – EF 75-300 mm F/4-5.6 II USM
  – EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
  – EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
  – EF-S 10-18 mm F/4,5-5,6 IS STM
  (the two last ones were fantastic with the Canon 50D & 7D APS-C)

Present gear :

• Sony A7III + SmallRig L-Bracket
• Benro FGP18A Go Plus Travel & Benro Ib1 Ballhead + Manfrotto Clamp
• Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS
• Laowa 15mm F/2 Zero-D
• Laowa 25 mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro
• Sigma MC11 for Canon mount + contactless Nikkon and M42 adaptors for Sony FE mount
• Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 USM & Canon 1.4x Teleconverter
• Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
• Asahi Super Takumar SMC 50mm f1.4 thorium coated radioactive lens (UV cleared the vintage yellowing/browning of the Canada balsam)
• Nikon Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5
• Chinon 28 mm f/ 2.8 Auto Lens
• That weird Samyang 500mm f/6.3 MC IF Mirror lens

Astro gear:

Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope 1500mm f/12 (Skywatcher 127 AZ-Goto)  & 3Dprinted custom focus ring
+ Barlow x2 to x5 & Canon mount T-Ring –  IR & Lunar filters – modded Logitech C270 webcam
– ZWO Atmospheric Dispertion Corrector – Kepler Dielectric diagonal mirror – 3D printed Bahtinov masks

UltraMacro extra gear:

Canon mount Fotodiox 150mm Bellow – Extension tubes (31+21+13mm)
Macro Reverse Ring Mount Adapters – Velbon Super Mag Slider MicroRail
many usefull LED lights of every shape and size