schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff
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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Tue, 07 May 2013 08:47:55 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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Blog - Photography - schlitt.info
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.. attention::
   The content of this blog is mostly in English, but partly in German, language!

Welcome to my photography website and especially to the blog. I'm writing
articles about special photos I've taken, equipment and book reviews, links to
useful and interesting web sites and other photo related stuff.

All content is provided under the stated license. Any presented images are
copyright by Tobias Schlitt, except explicitly stated differently. You may use
the content provided on this website under the terms provided by the license.
If you need further permissions or are unsure about a certain use case, do not
hesitate to ask me via email.


- Review: GIMP 2.6 für digitale Fotografie

  GIMP mag zwar noch nicht komplett an Photoshop heranreichen, aber immerhin
  ist es für den Hausgebrauch von Hobby- und Semi-Profi-Photographen eine
  hervorragende Alternative. Gerade für den kleinen Geldbeutel ist es als
  Open-Source-Software bestens geeignet und für Linux'er wie mich ist GIMP eh
  das einzig Wahre. Galileo-Design hat nun ein Buch zur GIMP-Version 2.6,
  extra für die Anwendung in der digitalen Photographie veröffentlicht. In
  diesem Artikel möchte ich das Buch kurz vorstellen und meine Eindrücke
  mitteilen.

- My new hobby

  As I already mentioned earlier, I recently bought a brand new Nikon D80 and
  started with a new hobby: Photography. :) With this entry I'd like to share
  some first experiences in this direction. The D80 seems to be a very good
  camera, I'm really amazed about its poissibillities. It is the best
  non-professional Nikon camera, AFAIK, and might be even a bit oversized for
  a photo beginner like me. Until now I only had experiences with compact cams
  and the D80 is my first DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera. However,
  I'm very interessted in photography so I'm sure I will grow with this camery
  quite fast. The source of my interest are inspiring photographers in my
  surrounding: Derick, Sebastian, Marcus and most recently also Kore and
  Jakob. In addition, I love great photos and always wanted to be able to take
  those on my own. The final clincher was the experience with Kores D70s in
  Berlin.

- Berlin trip: Dance of the Vampires

  Last weekend my girlfriend and me tripped to Berlin, primarily to see the
  musical Dance of the Vampires. I seized the chance and tried out Kores Nikon
  D70s camera to finally decide if I would also buy a digital single-lense
  reflex (DSLR) camera. Best thing first: My D80 is already ordered and will
  hopefully arrive next Tuesday. :)

- Gallery to Flickr

  I seized the boring time in the past days (I've had a really bad cold) and
  migrated my photo gallery to Flickr. So far I hosted the photos on my own,
  using Gallery. While Gallery is a great tool that allowed me to comfortablly
  manage and present my images, it has one great flaw: I host it by myself.
  That means a) that serving images from my server costs quite a bit of
  performance, if you involve PHP and even a database, and b) that I need to
  take care for updates myself. The first issue is a minor one, since my
  server is powerful enough to serve the job and not that many people are
  interessted. The second topic is much more disturbing, since I need to keep
  track about security updates all the time and need to bring an update in
  place ASAP, if one occurs.