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