Photography and photographical issues
Directory — articles
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How to preserve user-defined sort order in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.2: http://photo.bragit.com/Lightroom_Preserve_SortOrder.html. |
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Film scanner calibration issues: http://photo.bragit.com/it8tests.html. It's targeted towards those who are struggling with color profiles for film scanners, which both amateurs and professionals very often need to do due to the many problems associated with current hardware and software; but beware — it's not easy reading... |
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The update to the above article series also shows what multisampling can do to reduce noise levels. |
Slide shows and curious entertainment...
The Stockholm archipelago (Requires JavaScript, but not Flash)
- Norrpada, Stockholm archipelago 2004 (Swedish text)
- Trekobbarna, Stockholm archipelago 2005 (Swedish text)
- Rödkobbarna, Stockholm archipelago 2005 (Swedish text)
- Skräntärna, Västra Askören i Stockholms skärgård 2005 (Swedish text)
- Vitsten, Stockholm archipelago 2005 (English text)
- In-Fredlarna, Stockholm archipelago 2005 (Swedish text)
- Sälar (Seals), Angödrommen, Stockholm archipelago 2005 (Swedish text)
Old and Young — almost 87 years between them! A portrait taken 2003.
(There are also some privately or family oriented slide shows and pictures at heb.bragit.com and stockholmvindsurf.bragit.com, but they may not be of general interest.)
At the bottom of this page there are also a couple of images for the really curious.
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Technical info on the best way to view the slideshows
Full screen mode: All slideshows attempt to open a browser window in full screen mode, without any cluttering toolbars, icons or status fields so as not to waste any pixels. However, many browsers will not let itself be maximized this way, so you need to manually maximize the window. Depending on your browser settings, behavior may vary. Ignore any warnings, and make sure you have no special limitations for JavaScript. On MS Windows, with Internet Explorer or FireFox, press F11 to make the window Full Screen!
Color spaces/profiles: All images are in the sRGB color space, and they are also tagged with that color space (profile). sRGB is a quite narrow space, but it is the standard on the web. Generally, Windows users will not see correct colors anywhere on the internet, unless the images happen to match your particular monitor; the reason is that Windows doesn't really understand color profiles natively, and none of the common browsers, such as Explorer or Firefox, handle color management on Windows! Just calibrating the monitor will not necessarily make colors right on tagged images on the web, unless they happen to match your particular monitor, or the application understands color management!
Mac OS users will usually benefit from the built-in color management of the operating system. If the monitor is reasonably calibrated (using any arbitrary target gamma), Mac OS users will usually see reasonable colors on tagged images, but not for Flash slideshows!
Flash slideshows: Flash does not support any color management at all! So, unfortunately, my Flash slideshows won't show the right colors, unless your monitor is an sRGB monitor! There is no workaround for that, unless you can set your monitor in an sRGB mode.
Each image in a Flash show exists in three sizes, and which you see depends on the size of the window. With maximized window, the following seems to hold for both Mac and PC for some common monitor sizes:
• 1024x768 (older PC & Mac) => mini pics (520 px)
• 1280x800 (MacBook, MacBook Air, diverse PC) => mini pics (520 px)
• 1440x900 (MacBook Pro 15, various PC) => medium pics (650px)
• 1680x1050 (MacBook Pro 17, various PC)= > max pics (850 px)
If you are curious about something really curio, you may have a look at a photo over 40 years old — an odd film format of 4x4 cm slide from 1962 at Lagnö, showing Harald as a little kid standing on the shore close to his father's boat.
Windsurfing shots that came out quite fine: Grönhögen 1993! (Swedish text)
Windsurfing can also be much more tranquil: Shots from 1998. (Swedish text)