21 Apr

Posted at 21:50h in GPS, technique, Tutorial by
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Landscape photography often requires reaching places that are not easy to access with the main roads. My experience has shown me that it is very easy to get lost when you take a wrong turn on a dirt road in the middle of the desert… So I was looking for something that could help me by combining the precision of topographic maps and the ease of use of a car GPS. Combining my TomTom GPS with TTMaps (bringing the ability to display topographic maps on a TomTom GPS) has given me what I was looking for.

On a dirt road along Nipple Bench, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah

05 Mar

Posted at 19:52h in Tutorial, Wordpress by
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[vc_row][vc_column][az_alert_box type_acc="alert-warning"]Although mentioned in this post, the demo of Supersized is currently not visible anymore on this website.
[/az_alert_box][az_alert_box type_acc="alert-info"]UPDATE: I have now written a Wordpress plugin taking care of the integration of Supersized 3.1.3 in Wordpress, with many options available to choose how and where to display it. Have a look at WP Supersized!!

UPDATE: This tutorial should also be valid for Supersized 3.1.2 and 3.1.3.

[/az_alert_box][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][az_column_text]Since my previous post on the integration of Supersized 3.0 in a Wordpress page, a new version of Supersized has appeared: Supersized 3.1.1.

I thought that it would be useful to update my tutorial on the integration of Supersized in Wordpress to reflect the changes from Supersized 3.0 to 3.1.1 as this latest version makes it much easier than before. I will first describe a clean install of Supersized 3.1.1 for Wordpress. For those of you who have installed Supersized 3.0 according to my previous tutorial, I will also show how to update your existing installation of Supersized 3.0. What I describe here is valid at least for Wordpress 3.0 and above but is probably also valid for earlier versions of Wordpress. This tutorial is also available as a pdf file.

03 Mar

Posted at 22:33h in Landscape, Nature, Photography, Technique by
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With the winter 2010-2011 coming to a close, I wanted to show a few last pictures with snow before spring settled in. Here are a few images taken this winter, all of them converted to black and white from RAW files.

Natural patterns in the snow, close to La Hulpe, BelgiumNatural patterns in the snow, close to La Hulpe, BelgiumNatural patterns in the snow, close to La Hulpe, BelgiumArtificial patterns in the snow, created by skiers in Les Arcs, France

The first three ones were taken not far away from where I live with my Canon EOS reflex digital camera - nothing special there. The last one, taken during my ski holiday in Les Arcs (France), is a special case: this picture has been taken with my Canon Powershot A630 compact digital camera and was also converted from RAW to black and white. Wait a minute ! Many of you will probably think that I must be wrong: a Powershot A630 does not take RAW pictures ! Indeed, that is what I thought also until a few months ago when I discovered CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit), a very potent and versatile (and free !) firmware update for many Canon compact digital cameras (Point & Shoot cameras).

31 Dec

Posted at 08:50h in Tutorial, Wordpress by
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UPDATE: I have now written a Wordpress plugin taking care of the integration of Supersized 3.1.3 in Wordpress, with many options available to choose how and where to display it. Have a look at WP Supersized!

THIS POST IS NOW OBSOLETE. Supersized 3.1.1 is now available and a new version of my tutorial is available.

I really wanted to use Supersized as a slideshow for the background of my photography website based on Wordpress. After a lot of experimenting, I finally managed to integrate it into a Wordpress page. It seems that I am not the only one who has tried to make it work so I thought that my experience could be useful for others. Here is how I have done it. I am no specialist in coding so this can probably be done more efficiently but the essential is that it works ! You can have a look at the result on my About page. Read below for the detailed procedure that I used.