February 12, 2011
in my post on fixed drop down menus i explain how to create fixed drop down menus and near the end i make reference to dynamic drop down menus. this post is a follow on from that first post so make sure you can follow what is happening there before you try to dive in …
October 10, 2010
over the last year i have made significant changes to my website to increase the integration between the main photography part of the site, and my blog. one of my goals was to make the depth of my website more apparent and more accessible from all of the sites main pages through the use of …
June 4, 2010
i love mega-trends. and i have been observing a trend in modern photography of late that i find particularly appealing and exciting. it’s analogue audiophiles are rediscovering vinyl records and tube amplifiers; photographers are rediscovering film and the idiosyncrancies of that medium and of lens and film types. Kodak film was known for it’s sometimes …
March 22, 2010
the first four sessions of the Introduction to Digital Photography workshop have focused on the technical side of photography. with this session, we start switching gears to the creative side. but before delving into the arcane arts of digital developing and post-processing, i want to spend some time talking about … meta-data, and copyright and …
January 17, 2010
the first session in the Introduction To Digital Photography workhop was held last Wednesday, January 13. after introducing ourselves and our cameras we shared our expectations and i presented a proposed workshop outline. the goals of session one were to introduce the software that will be used in the rest of the workshop, and to understand …
December 3, 2009
after one year online, i have learned a lot about what it means to run a website and a blog. it can consume a lot of time, particularly when you have to manually configure and build new image galleries into a framework that doesn’t accommodate this very easily. that was the case with the first, …
May 15, 2009
When I started developing my web site, I knew that the right set of colours would be critical to it looking good and being easy to navigate. I also knew that I really liked the Adobe Lightroom interface colours; they put the images foremost, on a relatively neutral, high contrast background of dark grays and black. …