Posts Tagged ‘ Photogallery ’

Working with Lightroom

Dec 31st, 2007 | By Brian Leon | Category: Photography

I have worked with Adobe’s Lightroom application for several weeks now and I am still quite impressed with it. It has really made my photography appear much better than ever before though it helped considerably that I went to the RAW format with its better range of tonality and detail. The only issue I have [...]



Experimenting with Depth of Field

Dec 18th, 2007 | By Brian Leon | Category: Photogallery, Photography

In a recent issue of National Geographic, there was a cover story about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans. What made the story stood out for me was the accompanying photographs by David Burnett. Using a large format SpeedGraphic camera set at a very shallow depth of field, he created [...]



Experimenting with the Orton Effect

Dec 17th, 2007 | By Brian Leon | Category: Photogallery, Photography

I came across a reference to a new photo effect, the Orton Effect that has become popular among many photographers as an alternative method of processing photos. The Orton Effect is named after Michael Orton who first used the technique is a sandwich of two images, one in focus the other out of focus. The [...]



The photos have returned

Nov 22nd, 2007 | By Brian Leon | Category: Photogallery, Photography

I have finally managed to rework the photogallery that uses Flickr as its source. You can see the results on the Snaps gallery which is also found in the navigation sidebar area.
It functions a bit differently this time. Because of the caching issues I had before, not all of the galleries and images will load [...]



The return of the galleries

Nov 15th, 2007 | By Brian Leon | Category: Photogallery, Photography

One thing that fell off the map so to speak when I change my hosting plan last year was the galleries I maintained to showcase my top photos. Because of the setup, I found that I was unable to update the galleries. Thus they became somewhat stagnant. However, I did have my flickr account [...]