Recent purchase of a Canon 60D meant I needed to be on plugin version 6.4.1 in order to read the CR2 file format. Never previously having to upgrade from 6.1 I jumped straight in.
Downloaded the .dmg, ran, fail ... error : updates not available.
After lots of trial and error I found installing each update sequentially, 1-3 and then finally .4 solved the problem.
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Dynamic web page to display Picasa Web Albums
For a while now I've been uploading my vacation photos to the paulregan.co.uk site, in fact that's how it started. Parents and friends wanting to see the recorded history of our vacations ..
I've been using JAlbum with the Foto player template. Which is great and worked really well. Its slightly laborious to create a new folder but for the 3-4 times a year I needed it worked fine.
I then got hooked on photography and wanted to be able to upload some of my (in my opinion) better shots to the site. JAlbum was too slow to just throw one or two shots up. I needed something more dynamic.
I'd been using Picasa & Picasa Web Albums for a while which was a snap to sync between an album on the PC/MAC and the Picasa Web cloud. Picasa does have a html generating tool with some funky templates but that was more the JAlbum model which I didn't want.
If only Picasa Web had a pretty embed display, something like the lightbox or zoombox scripts .. before you comment picasa does, your right, it does but its pretty nasty.
I stumbled across www.paulvanroekel.nl ... He writes templates for both Picasa. And more importantly for Picasa web ! The php code pulls the pictures from all or a designated online album. Update your album, you site dynamically updates the changes.
Pick the template, download, tweak the config and upload to your site. Simples. Almost.
Not sure what causes it, maybe my providers PHP version. But the template files are all .php. trying to open them on the web caused :
Some quick googling had me change the extension from php to php5 - job done
paulregan.co.uk/gallery/index.php5
I've been using JAlbum with the Foto player template. Which is great and worked really well. Its slightly laborious to create a new folder but for the 3-4 times a year I needed it worked fine.
I then got hooked on photography and wanted to be able to upload some of my (in my opinion) better shots to the site. JAlbum was too slow to just throw one or two shots up. I needed something more dynamic.
I'd been using Picasa & Picasa Web Albums for a while which was a snap to sync between an album on the PC/MAC and the Picasa Web cloud. Picasa does have a html generating tool with some funky templates but that was more the JAlbum model which I didn't want.
If only Picasa Web had a pretty embed display, something like the lightbox or zoombox scripts .. before you comment picasa does, your right, it does but its pretty nasty.
I stumbled across www.paulvanroekel.nl ... He writes templates for both Picasa. And more importantly for Picasa web ! The php code pulls the pictures from all or a designated online album. Update your album, you site dynamically updates the changes.
Pick the template, download, tweak the config and upload to your site. Simples. Almost.
Not sure what causes it, maybe my providers PHP version. But the template files are all .php. trying to open them on the web caused :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/users/web4831/html/paulregan.co.uk/gallery/index.php on line 97 Some quick googling had me change the extension from php to php5 - job done
paulregan.co.uk/gallery/index.php5
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Canon 'RAW' format thumbnails.
Trying to only shoot RAW pictures and was fed up with no native support thumbnail view in Windows 7 explorer.
Found that Canon supply a RAW codec which fix's the thumbnail. Unfortunately it doesn't display the EXIF information - which is a pain and means you still need to open the files in an app.
Friday, 17 September 2010
Canon D30, Tamron 18-270 & Long Exposures
On vacation in France, a private waterfall at our disposal. A perfect chance to try my recently purchased tripod to see if I can create some of those silky water shots.
Sat there for an hour playing with settings thinking I was great. Checked them later and they where pretty much all blurred.
Two mins googling and a link with disabling image stabilisation on the lens. Bingo. On the Tamron its actually VC (I forget the acronym). Tried a couple of test shots and it appears problem solved.
Back to the waterfall tomorrow afternoon.
I also found that VC doesn't actually work in the timed (10 seconds) shot mode. But it does seem to make a difference when the d30 takes the picture. So turn it off.
Not sure what other lens do this. I'll hopefully find out soon when I buy my bosses 'L's.
Sat there for an hour playing with settings thinking I was great. Checked them later and they where pretty much all blurred.
Two mins googling and a link with disabling image stabilisation on the lens. Bingo. On the Tamron its actually VC (I forget the acronym). Tried a couple of test shots and it appears problem solved.
Back to the waterfall tomorrow afternoon.
I also found that VC doesn't actually work in the timed (10 seconds) shot mode. But it does seem to make a difference when the d30 takes the picture. So turn it off.
Not sure what other lens do this. I'll hopefully find out soon when I buy my bosses 'L's.
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Taking HDR shots with Canon 30D
Yet to play with this but it looks interesting. Found a blog with instructions for my camera which I should keep.
- Select Av mode from dial mode
- press menu and go to AEB section, press SET and rotate the rear dial until we have -2/0/+2 marked with green, press SET again and after that hit MENU once again to disappear.
- press DRIVE-ISO and after that rotate top dial until we setup the camera on timer mode. Also setup ISO as low as you can to not have noise on your photos.
Place the body on a tripod hit the shutter release and the camera will take up 3 photos for you to make a beautiful hdr photo. You may test with multiple aperture size.
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