Another Week. . .
Another week, another site redesign. Probably. I’ve started putting photos on Flickr, mostly for ease of linking when I’m posting for critiques and sharing on other sites. So I’m thinking about removing the gallery I host here and using a Flickr plugin to display the images here instead. It would certainly be easier to keep track of photos that way. Not to mention only having to upload them once, and not worry about hosting them myself. First I have to figure out how to make a couple of small changes to the provided Flickr code, though. As usual. At least I wouldn’t be dealing with the fallout of “merging two PHP/MySQL systems together in unholy matrimony” as a friend of mine refers to the current site setup.
Another week, another new camera toy. I ordered an external flash last week, a Canon 430EX. Of course it arrived after I left town for two days. And then I spent Sunday doing necessary things around the house, and didn’t really get to play with it until tonight. First impression: nice. I love the ability to direct the flash somewhere other than directly at what I’m shooting. Second impression: I’m going to need the off-camera setup a lot sooner than I thought. The flash has some bendy directional options, but it still points forward from the camera. It would be nice to set it to the left or right for slightly more natural light and shadows.
Another week, another fun photo trip. Once again, I headed over to central Washington to see what I could see. Lighting was REALLY bad for landscape photography on Friday, but Saturday turned out beautiful:
