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1st November 2007

Another James photo

In Wales last week we were walking along near a building, and I saw a black canvas barrier next to a walkway. I thought it’d make a nice screen for a portrait to be set against…

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28th October 2007

Gallery

Gallery2 is a highly featured web gallery. I use it across my web-sites here, embedded in both WordPress and Drupal.

It is a complex system, with a very abstracted implementation which is hard to fully understand. Out of the self-hosted galleries it is probably the most suitable for me, but I am oft-tempted to move away from it – Flickr seems tempting, but by the time I bought the features I need, and multiplied that by the number of users using my Gallery it is no longer quite so attractive.

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30th September 2007

New lens

I’d been reading that getting a fixed focal length lens (not a zoom) is a great way of getting the most out of your camera, and wanted to give it a go. Unfortunately, “prime” lenses are quite expensive relative to the cheap zooms that are readily available from the camera shops. I dithered and put it off, but eventually decided to give it a go. Here is one of the first portraits of James that I have taken with my new 35mm F2.0 lens….

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