I went for a walk with Jenz along the Rideau Canal and eventually into a Turkish festival that was happening in Confederation Park.
The migration from Zenfolio to Flickr is going well. I’ve got about 1/4 of the content uploaded. Once it’s all there, I have to create a new interface for the content and expose it from my portfolio. Client content will be password protected, so that’ll be a second phase.
Overall, it appears that I’m going to be creating a custom ecommerce engine that’s Flickr powered.
I’m going to be pulling my gallery offline while I do a major upgrade using my new JavaScript library, aFrame. I’m not really seeing the value in having a so-so SaaS system manage my content with an extremely limited template; when I can make my own do so much more.
Yesterday I finished processing the photos from Johnny & Michelle Optis’ wedding in Jamaica. Man, what a wonderful couple! They have amazing chemistry, and it really comes across in the pictures. I’ve put a select bunch of the photos in my Weddings sample gallery.
First task of my morning was fixing the keyboard event for navigating the image grid on my portfolio. The original template had a row size of 10, and unfortunately that was what I made the event for. I rewrote the up/down keypress logic and then started on tweaking the CSS more; and adding eye candy.
Once I worked out the fades on everything, I discovered it didn’t run very well in IE8. This led me to the decision to remove all fading from IE browsers (not just <8), and I think it was correct. The site is snappy in IE, and buttery smooth in everything else I test against.
Yesterday I uploaded a good amount of content to my gallery that I had been keeping on Flickr. My original portfolio plan was to feed the images from Flickr via the API, but since I’ve been using Zenfolio for the gallery/client area Flickr just doesn’t fit into the plan anymore.
I’ve barely uploaded to Flickr in months, which is a pretty large paradigm shift from how I used to deposit images on the net.
A little bit of the Ottawa sky. I need to make more time for myself.
The pictures have been uploaded into my gallery and exported to Facebook and Flickr. I love the recent upgrades to Zenfolio.
I’ve finished processing the beginning and the end of the photo shoot with Kyla and her girls. Awesome results from great subjects. I have the middle of the shoot (aka the park) half way completed, so I should have the set finished tonight.
These last 2 shoots has made me realize I need to upgrade my radio triggers to something faster. Maybe a set of Radio Poppers JrX or CyberSyncs.
The day was extremely hot and humid, but we still got a ton of great pictures of Kyla with her little girls. The majority were taken at a very scenenic park Kyla knew of in a town a short drive from her house; so she packed up the kids and I followed in my car with my gear.
I ended up shooting outdoors solely with my DA* 50-135 stopped down a little at f4-f5.6, with a little f2.8 at the right times.
After we were done in the park (aka sweating to death) we went back to their home for a short shoot inside the living room. Kyla gave the girls some freezies and I fired away with some umbrellas setup. The shots have a very natural “at home” feeling to them, so I’m very happy. I basically shadowed her during a weekend afternoon, and her praise of the shots viewed from the camera put a big smile on my face.
She’s gonna love the final results online and in print.
