February 12, 2012 – 12:30 pm
D700 with 28mm f/3.5 AI lens & SB-24 speedlight @ 1/4 power. 1/125s, f/5.6, iso200
Just upgraded my wordpress theme to the latest version of “Sandbox” to v1.6.2
I have noticed that it has changed the appearance of captions in photos which have captions.
I have customised the background colour from white to 50% grey (#808080) – I find reading text & viewing photos on white more tiring on the eyes so 50% grey seems ideal, especially when viewing photos as well as text.
The Sandbox theme seems to be the least “fussy” theme as a lot of the themes are just quite hideous, but Sandbox is really minimal…..”less is more”
November 15, 2008 – 11:57 am
Misty - Seven Sisters at Cothelstone
There was a surprising amount of mist at the top of Cothelstone Hill on Thursday.
This group of trees is called “Seven Sisters” but there are only 3 large trees so I assume the other 4 must have died or got blown down at some stage as this bit of hill is really open to the elements.
There is a group of smaller trees behind that must have been planted more recently.
The trees were only visible when I was within about 25 metres if that.
(Photo taken with the Samsung G600 Mobile Phone)
By boliston
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Posted in Photography
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Also tagged cothelstone hill, england, G600, mist, misty, mobile phone photo, photo, quantock hills, quantocks, samsung, samsung g600, seven sisters, somerset, taunton
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November 9, 2008 – 11:45 pm
I have been trying out a bit of scanning using a combination of GIMP, XSane and my Canon Lide60 Scanner.
A building in Berlin
I have got quite a few pictures from my recent trip to Berlin. As they were taken with a Holga it means that they need scanning which is where XSane comes in handy.
I prefer the flexibility of XSane compared with the basic windows driver that comes with the scanner.
It will autoajust Gamma, Brightness & Contrast for the area selected and it makes quite a good job of this, but I tweaked the grey point slightly on the histogram so it’s not so dark.
My prints are all 5×5 (inches) so I preset the scan area for this size.
The preview area I selected 18×13 (cm) as this is the smallest preview area that covers the entire print as there is no point in doing a preview scan of the whole platen area.
By boliston
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Posted in Photography, ubuntu
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Also tagged berlin, black & white, film, gimp, holga, linux, medium format, photo, scanning, ubuntu, xsane
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November 8, 2008 – 8:10 pm
I have now managed to get UFRaw & GIMP working properly on Ubuntu Intrepid.
This shows people looking for whales while en route to the faroe islands
It looks like it’s possible to put text next to images as well as above or below them.
The text flows round photos “magazine style”. I have exported the NEF from my D70s from UFRaw to GIMP and the resized to 33.3% which seems to be a good size on a standard 1280×800 laptop display.
In some ways I think I prefer this to the way flickr displays photos as it’s more customisable as regards photo display size.
October 12, 2008 – 10:50 pm
I have been using flickr for some time but I’m wondering how WordPress deals with photos.
It looks pretty user friendly – this is a shot I grabbed with the Samsung G600 of a notice warning about agressive sows on the coastal path just south west of Ladram Bay.
It’s pretty easy to adjust the thumbnail size, and clicking the thumbnail loads the original pic. The Samsung produces quite big pictures but when viewed in Firefox they get resized to fit the window.
Rows of purple coloured cabbages on the coat path. This image needed rotation, and I used the handy Gthumb image viewer to rotate it “losslessly”. I’m not sure if Gimp does lossless rotation.
