I had a chat with a friend of mine yesterday about photography and naturally there was a lot of equipment geek-talk. I realized (once again) that I’ve only got crap lenses to use with my D30, so when I came home I started browsing around for a pre-used lens. The requirements were (in priority order):
1) wide aperture (F1.8 – F2.8) and
2) wide angle (17/18mm)
I found a Sigma lens that would fit my needs perfectly. However, my wallet disagreed almost instantaneously. Okay, but let’s just see what the lens can perform. Googling around for some sample images, I stumbled upon an image with a blur-frame. I thought it looked interesting so I decided to postpone my lens-hunt and start fiddling with Gimp instead. The reslut, as you can se, is quite satisfactory.
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I decided to update the header background images with 13 of my own pictures instead of the ones bundled with the theme.
Hope you enjoy the change.
I finally got my hands on a digital SLR camera! My friend Anso decided to buy a new one and gave away her old D30 to me (well, I’ll probably have to pay some symbolic sum for it). She had got it a few years ago from a friend and photographer who now shoots for HBL. I only got the body, but I had a couple of crap lenses I used with my analog SLR that fitted on this one. One is a 35-80mm kit lens and the other a Sigma 100-300mm which has some trouble with the aperture…
Anyhow, it’s nice to shoot some real photos again, and best of all it’s free! So expect a steady stream of pictures in my gallery from now on.
I finally got the time (at work, muahaha) to try to fix the problems I’ve had with the WPG2 plugin, displaying and linking to images from my Gallery2 photo gallery in my blog. The default behaviour of the plugin is to display a Gallery2 thumbnail (the 100×100 pixel with watermark, if you check my gallery) and open an embedded gallery page inside my blog. This screwed up everything and just looked disastrous, so I said “fuck it” and didn’t think more about it.Today I thougth that there has to be a way to get the plugin to work as I want it to, namely to display a down-scaled full size image (i.e. not the little square thumbnail) and to link to the standalone gallery instead of the embedded page. I succeeded to 99%.
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