A major advantage of WordPress is the wealth of themes available.
A major problem with WordPress is the number of themes to choose from.
I like this site’s current look, but I’d like to find a similar theme with a fixed width to see if it is not more practical.
If anyone comes accros something, please post here with a link.
Thank you.
Stephane :: Sep.22.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »
This site is a blog and a gallery.
Until now, each part was done with a seperate software: RapidWeaver for the blog and Gallery for the, well, gallery.
All that’s changed now, I think for the better.
After reviewing the usual suspects, I finally decided to use WordPress, seemingly like everybody these days. Its blogging features have been rightly celebrated and it has loads of gallery plugins. I chose one that seems simple and does what I need: NextGen Gallery.
So we have brand new galleries! Only two are done for now: London and Luxembourg.
Stephane :: Sep.22.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »
Colin Jago’s excellent blog is focused on colour problems for some time now. At the beginning I was reading out of theoretical interest. But the recent posts have me think about my own way of working. For several months my workflow has been:
Colin lead me to re-evaluate Raw Developer, for which I have a license. It is indeed an extremely good program. So the good ones will now transit through Raw Developer between Aperture and LightZone.
Stephane :: Jul.07.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »
I just posted the following on Colin’s blog:
I find raw converters are very much like film developers. Only in digital we can process the same photograph in several developers and compare.My main developer is Aperture. I find it very good for processing what is on the card when I return. At the same time I file and backup everything, it is so handy for that. It also allows me to get quite far near what a final print would look like. Then, if in doubt, I can process the very few interesting ones in Raw Developer and Lightzone. If none of those three will give me satisfying results then I give up. But it has never happened. Most of the time Aperture is enough.Of course, like with developers, it depends on what film you use, ie. the sensor. so for an M8 it is very likely my developer of choice could be different.
I then realized it would be a relevant entry here 
Stephane :: Jul.02.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »
Today I came back from a photography day, eager to see some of the pictures I took. I take the card from my EOS 5D, put it in the FireWire card reader, run Aperture, ask it to import from the card and… no pictures. Aaaargh!Nothing, zilch, nada, gone.Total despair.I just let it go for a while thinking that’s life, things happen, it is not that bad, could be worse, was just a few pictures, some people are hungry, etc… but still, I could not really get over it.I decide to run a Google search on the problem and see what I find. Nothing interesting. I run the same search on the dpreview.com forum and there I find a message about how PhotoRescue saved a photographer with the same problem.I download PhotoRescue evaluation, run it, and after working about 20 minutes, it recovers all the pictures I ever took with the camera! It raises some interesting questions about what a formatting by the 5D actually does, but most importantly all my lost pictures were there. Of course, to be able to actually save the rescued pictures, I had to pay the PhotoRescue license, a reasonable $30.Now I wonder about that Seagate 8GB Microdrive. Should I? I am 99% positive I did not make any mistake in the manipulation. Since I bought it Compact Flash cards prices have fallen dramatically so maybe I should just replace it. I don’t know.
Stephane :: Apr.16.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »
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