I got a new camera again (see the update in the photography category) and of course, Pitou had to be my first model !
I actually took a couple of pictures, just to play
with it but I won't show them here, as they have absolutely no interest
(unless you want to see my bedroom shot or some chopsticks holders, etc.)
On the other hand, while I was about to do some more test shots, Pitou came in
the way. I guess she just had to, she is my favorite live model to test out
all the digital cameras I've ever had !
So here's one
picture of Pitou, shot at ISO 400. Still amazed by the lack of noise !
Also, the full size pictures shows sharp details I've never seen on my D30 ! I
can't wait to have some pictures printed...
Well ... What can I say ... I got a new digital camera again ...
This one is the Canon EOS 10D, very similar to my D30 before, but the main
advantages are:
- a higher resolution (6.2MPixels, almost double the D30's) which will allow me to print nice posters at 20" x 30"
- a very low noise, even at high ISO, excellent for night shots or long exposure shots
- a faster autofocus and no shutter lag, which didn't really bother me anyway, but it's alwyas nicer to have :)
I took a couple of pictures, just to play with it but I won't show them
here, as they have absolutely no interest (unless you want to see my bedroom
shot or some chopsticks holders, etc.)
On the other hand, while I was about to do some more test shots, Pitou came
in the way. I guess she just had to, she is my favorite live model to test out
all the digital cameras I've ever had !
So here's one
picture of Pitou, shot at ISO 400. Still amazed by the lack of noise !
Also, the full size pictures shows sharp details I've never seen on my D30 !
I can't wait to have some pictures printed...
One of our friend (the sister of somebody who used to work with us, actually) had a fascinating show at 'Jazz is', a jazz bar in Kannai.
I'm finally done with the migration of the homepage ! All the pages should
have the same common layout, which can be easily changed from the css file.
I actually spent quite a lot of time doing this (the whole week end,
basically). The main reason being that I also wanted to clean the dirty code
generated by Frontpage or GoLive which was not consistent from one page to
another, making the website very difficult to maintain.
I also had to run some perl scripts to automatically change the individual
html pages for some sections (more than 500 pages I think), which would have
taken me way too long if I had to do it manually.
Plus, when it is possible to make it automatic, I can minimize the risks of mistyping something for example (although I was a little worried when I realized I had made a mistake in the original template and already uploaded 400 pages ...)
I still need to work on the colors, the background images, etc. but once I'm settled, it shouldn't take too long to update since everything is centralized.
I finally started "putting in production" the pages I was working on for the
last few days.
It took me about 3 days to understand the basics of css:
- the first night,I wanted to know what it was and what it was doing... but it
looked a little painful to read (several references to different files, etc.
(it was after work, I was tired, ok ? ;) )
- the second night, I actually starting studying a little more and found some
interesting references on the Internet to leaern quickly about css (see the
links)
- the 3rd night, I did the tutorials and I started changing my own pages
...
I still need to modify the design, I'm still not satisfied by the way it looks
(colors, background, etc.) but at least, I now have the layout and any change
in the css will be applied to all pages at the same time :)
I'm still in the process of migrating all pages so it might take a while
before everything is homogeneous ! In the meantime, please bear with my old
non standard HTML pages !
One last thing: if you ever have to do the same thing as I am doing, I would recommend to use a nice editor such as emacs and work on the source code directly instead of letting yourself get confused with your editor (GoLive, DreamWeaver, Frontpage): it will be more difficult to control what you do and to keep a clean HTML if you let those programs rewrite the code for you ...
Finally, my last remark:
If you see some grey boxes in the banner which don't look really good, ask
yourself whether you are using a browser which respects the norms ...
(Microsoft Internet Explorer ... hmm ?...).
Those files are PNG files and should have a transparent background but only
the browsers which respect the standards will properly display them. Try Mozilla which will also help you get rid of
the irritating popup windows generated by javascripts of some pages...
