For the past year or so, I’ve been using Gallery for running my photo gallery. However, I felt that I wasn’t really utilising many of the features that it had to offer, and that it was perhaps a bit too much of an overkill – all I wanted was something that displays photos; something lightweight.
So, I decided to write my own from scratch. Well, not entirely from scratch, since I’ve integrated (a rather heavily modded) Lightbox into it.
The resulting PHP code is just 138 lines long, and chews up a lot less resources than Gallery. I also think it looks a bit tidier.
Anyway, take a look at it here. I’ve also added a few more albums to the gallery.
Feel free to comment about the new layout and please provide any suggestions on how you think it can be improved.
I’ve just posted up some photos from our outing to Viv’s place up in my photo gallery.
There are still about a month’s worth of photos that I’ve yet to process, so stay tuned for more updates…
I’m slowly going through my backlog of photos and so I’ve got another album up in my gallery. This one contains photos that Joyce and I took when we were at Zuo (Ethan) and Mayz’s engagement party.
Congrats to both of them on getting engaged and my prayers are with them both as they prepare for their wedding, but most of all to be a faithful husband/wife.
I’ve finally gotten off my dilatory derriere and posted up photos from KYLC up here.
I took a whole bunch of photos at the muso’s social today and afterwards let some people play with my camera. When I got home to download the photos, I found out that somebody had wiped the card! Whether it was by accident or whatever, I’ve now lost a good few hundred megs of photos.
Other than having a great sense of loss, this pisses me off immensely.
So much for being nice… think about this next time you let someone play with your camera…
My previous post dealt pretty much mostly with SLR cameras – in particular, those of the Canon EOS variety. I figured that not everybody is willing to go into this sort of equipment, and so I’ve updated the Resource page with some tips for the next time you go shopping around for a camera.
For some strange reason, the fact that I work for CiSRA – an Australian R&D company for Canon, apparently makes me an expert in all of Canon products as well as all of the products from our competitors. I’m then expected to provide a detailed summary of what’s good and bad about anything that Canon produces (in particular cameras) at a moment’s notice.
Whilst I’m somewhat amused at how much Canon product knowledge people assume I have, I must state that working for Canon does not mean that I know everything about our products. I’m not exactly in the sales/marketing department you know… I do research for them.
That said, I do have an interest in photography, and one of the perks working here is that I get to play with lots of cameras – in particular, the EOS digital SLR cameras. I often get asked questions about Canon SLR cameras and so it might be easier for me to just list some of the more common ones here along with my responses. Of course, this information can be found on the internet if people can be bothered looking for it, but here they are for convenience.
If there are some other things you want to know about EOS stuff, and can’t be bothered doing your own research, drop the question(s) in the comments section.
After coming back from KYLC with another stack of photos, I decided to process some of the ones that I took at the end of December last year. You can find them at the gallery.
For those of you who read SMH’s Tech section, there was an article (more like a review, really) of Adobe Lightroom beta 4.1.
Now, since I shoot almost exclusively in RAW, I’m always on the lookout for something that helps speed up my workflow when mucking around with photos. Currently, I pretty much use Digital Photo Professional since I find that it fits most comfortably with my workflow. It’s also free since it came packaged with my camera, and I like free. Right now, Adobe Lightroom beta 4.1 is also free (until February 28) and so I decided to download it and give it a try.
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Ok, I’m starting to get to the point where I feel like I’m spending too much money on equipment. But then I think about amortising it over the expected life of this kind of gear, and I don’t feel as bad. Anyway, I picked up a wide-angle lens to cover the remaining gap in my focal lengths about two weeks ago and I’ve been testing it out a bit. I got a good exercise last Friday at the Sydney Motor Show at Darling Harbour. For photos, check out our gallery.