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30 Jun 2009 Upgrade to WP2.8 and Nextgen gallery v1.33

Filed under: Site Notes & News — ghorse@10:03 PM

This website have been updated to the latest version of WP2.8 and Nextgen Gallery V1.3.3.  Of course I have check all changes previously done with nextgen gallery and they still works.   I have take this chance to change the order of image display with the nextgen gallery “tag” shortcode to reverse the order from new to old.  That means new images will be showed first in the gallery generated by the tag short code.


The following change is made to the nggShowGalleryTags function in nggfunctions.php file:


// show gallery
if ( is_array($picturelist) ) {
$reverseorder = array_reverse($picturelist);
$out = nggCreateGallery($reverseorder, false);
}


The original code is:

if ( is_array($picturelist) )
$out = nggCreateGallery($picturelist, false);

A scene in West Kowloon#7

Filed under: Photoblog — ghorse@12:54 AM

Photo taken on West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade A scene in West Kowloon#7

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29 Jun 2009 Hyperfocal Distance in Practice

Filed under: Photographic Notes — ghorse@8:52 PM

As the modern lens these dates do not have the DOF marking anymore, we have to find out the hyperfocal distance by ourselves in order to make use of hyperfocal distance in practice.  A quick look into the DOF mater site, I have find out the following hyperfocal distance for my 24-70mm zoom when use with my D700:

FL\Aperture      f8            f11
24mm                 2.4m      1.7m
28mm                 3.3m      2.3m
35mm                 5.1m       3.6m
50mm                10.5m     7.4m
70mm                20.5m    14.5m
CoC=0.019mm

To simplifies things, I am looking only for focus distance of 1.7m, 2.4m, 3.6m and 5.1m.  The method is just find your focusing target and use a scale to measure the distance between your target and camera position.  In each of the location, focus the lens at longest focal length and not the distance scale on the lens.  The following are what the distance scale looks like:

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A scene in West Kowloon#6

Filed under: Photoblog — ghorse@4:54 PM

Photo taken on West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade A scene in West Kowloon#6

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