Creating Image galleries for your site.

Hi all,

http://www.photo-freeware.net/yopow.php

This is a free program that will create your gallery to put your photos out where they can be seen. I've been using it for nearly a year. This is my latest gallery, shot with my ist DL on New Years Eve.

http://www.hanworthclub.co.uk/NYE2005/NYE2005WEB1/index.html

Once the photos were sorted, cropped and generally mucked about with (sorry for the jargon) it took me around 15 minutes, including fine tuning the HTML. I'm happy writing code, so I tend to do that anyway, but this is all WYSIWYG, so no web design expertise needed. If you've already managed to get a site running, you'll be able to use this.

It's taken a 47Mb containg 36 ***JPEG images and converted it to a gallery folder including all HTML, css, images and thumbnails, the entire online size of which is only 1.9 Mb.

It's all customisable with regard to sizes of thumbnails, images, background colour, title fonts etc.

Hope that helps. If anyone wants to mention the photos and how they could be shot better, I'm all ears. They were mainly shot with the popup flash in a dark hall. I used a warmtone UV filter through out, and the kit lens (18-55).

Cheers

Liam

I can't understand a word of what you wrote! I find it much easier to use real FILM ,go into the darkroom and come out with a set of prints - sorry!

Hi Peter,

That's fine. I spent many years doing film photography myself. If you have a website then this is just as applicable, you just have to scan the prints first to upload them to your computer. This is purely for creating image galleries for your website if you have one, as many photographers do. I dabble in the black art of web design and thought it would be useful**.

Disclaimer: This in no way discriminates against anyone's chosen technique for creating the pictures in the first place.

Cheers

Liam

** I'm completely self taught which is a dangerous thing, but if anyone needs help putting a site together, then I'll do my best to help if I can.

Hi Liam

Hopefully some helpful advice regarding popup flash. I likewise use a *ist DL and as I generally prefer available light photography anyway, I tend to avoid using flash where possible, and having used the popup flash on the DL a few times found myself avoiding flash shooting totally (until such time as I can afford a compatible hotshoe mounted flash unit) as I find the results stark at best.

Then I read Petteri Sulonen's typically witty and elegantly expressed article on diffuse and bounce flash using a deoderant cap for the former and a bit of card and baking foil for the latter.

I put together a flash bounce (FinnBounce) based generally on his instructions and the results have been remarkable. It cost nothing (I already had the card, tin foil, glue and gaffer tape laying about) and now, rather than getting stark images with popup flash I get good tonal range.


On the subject of image gallery software, I use JAlbum and due to the fact it has a significant array of styles many of which I find nowhere near to my taste I limit myself to using the Exhibit Plus style plugin. After a bit of playing around it becomes a reasonably intuitive and powerful package to use. A sample of what I put together with it can be found here.

Hi, Camster,

nice photos.. I@ve had a quick look at the jalbum site, and it looks interesting. I'm off to work now, so I'll download it later and check it out.

Cheers

Liam

Don't apologise, Peter. I'm sure it's no skin off Liam's nose if you can't understand simple everyday words.

Nor is it likely to concern him that you are locked into a particular approach and take great delight in parading your refusal to contemplate change.

But I'm sure you're glad that some people weren't satisfied with glass plates and view-finders, and went out and invented SLRs, and colour film, and slide projectors. They're OK, because they were invented before you were twenty years old, and decided that the world should be fixed, and no further change allowed.

But we all need some achievement to be proud of, and yours apparently (as you keep alluding to it) is that you have turned your face firmly against progress. Fair enough, but now that you've told us (several times), further reminders are unnecessary.

George

The automatic log-in seems to have gone on the blink. By "view-finders"
in the post above I meant view-cameras, but I can't edit it.
G