Browsing Posts published in June, 2009

…and now I’m changing the Gallery from Coppermine to Gallery3. Coppermine just feels too clunky for me.

The new gallery is up and images are transferred, but now I just have to figure out what I want to do with all the images that have been linked to the gallery. Good times.

uh oh

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Oops.  I guess I decided to convert from Serendipity to WordPress for my blogging app.  Hopefully the old entries come back online soon.  If not, oh well.  Then I just have to make the site look good.

Dang.

edit: well it kinda worked.  Images don’t work any more. hmmm….

edit2: well images are back, but the formatting is nuked.  Oh well.  I might go edit them if I have time.

edit3: nope, I guess the images are broken still.

edit4: they’re back, for now.

Permissions. Ugh. Seems any time I make a change to the gallery, the permissions go all wonky. Oh well, it is fixed.

Well I did it.

I’ve been considering it for a while, and I finally pulled the trigger. I started my own forum for Sigma cameras. There are currently two main Sigma forums, and both have their issues – so I figured I’d start a new one that is hopefully more accommodating to most users. Not much there yet, still getting things set up:

http://sigmacamerausers.info/forums

“Floral” is in quotes for a reason. The landscaping at the back of the house has been neglected, because it’s at the back of the house :) A little while back I noticed we had a very large thistle growing, so a couple days ago I decided I’d do something with it.

Cutting pieces off of this was very tough without gloves. But it was worth it.

I set up a little makeshift “mini studio” in my office for the shoot. This basically consisted of a black comforter pushpinned to the wall, a white piece of cardboard as a reflector, and my SB-24 twist-tied to my tripod: no, I don’t have a light stand or umbrella yet. Soon. Maybe. I hope.

I shot these with the SD14 and Vivitar 28/2.5. The close-up shots were done using some generic macro extension tubes.

SDIM1851

SDIM1847

SDIM1853

SDIM1875

SDIM1885