Originally, I thought I could easily write up my summary of day one of the IndieWebCamp here in Düsseldorf tonight. But instead I ended up in a Restaurant and only returned close to midnight. So, no summary. But I had a great time, meeting lots of interesting people. Looking forward to day two.
clamp()
Just learned about the CSS clamp() function. This would actually be really handy for specifying a width based font size, without the need for an extra media-query.
Unfortunately, this does not have any browser support right now.
I amended my photo journal’s design once again. I wanted to make all images fit completely on screen, no matter what the actual dimensions of the image are.
That images wouldn’t fit was mainly an issue with photos shot in portrait orientation or in square format. If a screen was wider than it’s tall – typical for most non-mobile devices – and you had less than 960px available vertical space, those images would be cropped. That’s no longer the case. And I find it much more enjoyable when the whole picture fits on screen.
As a minor downside, this update also decreases the size of landscape-oriented images, which would still have fitted previously. But this way, everything’s aligning well and portrait and landscape images still have the same size.
Ok, finally put up the scanner at the new apartment. Catching up on scanning…
October 2018 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
photojournal.danielpietzsch.com
In Paris.
My selected photos from last October. Mostly shots from Paris.
I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. Especially the ones from the Rolleiflex.
Just finished developing two rolls of APX 400 rated at 1600. It’ll probably be the last two pushed 35 mm rolls for a while. Because while in winter and standard time, I mostly tend to rate my 400-speed film at said EI 1600, I usually rate it at box speed during daylight savings.
IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
Next weekend, just before the Beyond Tellerrand conference, I’m going to attend another IndieWebCamp. The last and only time I’ve been to one was four years ago (also before the BT conference). And I’m very much looking forward again to two days of learning, show & tell, programming, and meeting fellow indieweb-ers.
I’m not quite sure yet what my personal goal is going to be during this year’s camp. I feel like my next step towards independence is to finally dump Tumblr, and start hosting my own site.
But I’m still undecided what stack to use: a static site generator or a dynamic site? With database or simply flat files? An existing software or build something from scratch? Hosting on a VPS, simple webspace, or use a PaaS (like Heroku or Netlify for example)?
Maybe I can get some inspiration at the event and start a little prototype.
It’s Friday night, and it’s photo editing time again. I’ve been sitting on the October 2018 photos forever it seems. Let’s see how I get on in the next hour, but I’m hopeful the entry will go live this weekend. It’s going to be mostly photos from Paris, which were great fun to shoot!
My (preferred) web tech stack. As told by my Dash Touch Bar configuration.
Panoramic cameras
At some point I want one. A Widelux. A Horizon. Or even an XPan. Maybe a cheap Sprocket Rocket at first.
I was just looking at some of Jeff Bridges’ photos, and really like how he uses the Widelux to document the making of the movies he’s starring in. I mean, they are interesting and unique pictures to begin with, but that wide frame makes them even more so.
Pulling film you don’t know the development time for
I recently had to pull-develop a roll of APX 400, which I unintentionally had exposed at EI200 or even EI100. And I couldn’t find developing times for XTOL online for pulling APX. But I found an entry in a Flickr group, that suggested using 2/3s of the original developing time per stop pulled. That sounded reasonable. So, for my APX 400 in XTOL 1:1, this meant instead of 12 minutes at 20 ℃, I developed for 8 minutes. The negatives came out looking fine.
(This little accident happened, because I loaded APX 400 via a bulk-rolled canister with a 200 ISO DX code into my Leica Mini, which is an automated camera, where you can’t set the ISO manually. And the DX code was even partially covered by tape that I used to label the film. The tape meant, the camera might not have been able to read the DX code at all, making it fall back to its default ISO setting. Which is probably ISO 100 from what I gathered online. Either way, I ended up with an overexposed roll. The question was if it was one stop or two. I decided it was two. But I only compensated for one stop in development, as I thought it’s probably safer to overdevelop a little bit, rather than ending up with too-thin negatives in case it was actually only one stop overexposed.)
I found this old photo from 2013 in my drafts, and I must say I’m rather pleased with the quality of this scan. I’m pretty sure, this roll was developed and scanned by Foto Görtz here in Düsseldorf. I don’t know what they were (or are) using, but I’m sure it’s something better than the flatbed scanner I use.
This is Kodak Gold 200, shot with a Nikon FE and the 50mm f/1.8 E lens.
Hm… Matt Stuart is giving a workshop in Cologne in June. 🤔 Tempting! But I don’t think I want to spend the money right now. Plus, I feel like my problem is currently less of how to do shoot street photography, but to do it at all. Should really go out more regularly again. Would be nice to see him work and pick his brain, though…
I must say, the older Zoe gets, the more enjoyable and interesting I find it to spend time with her and watch her play and explore. She’s 19 months old now, and it seems like almost every day she’s learning something new.
Guten Ostersonntag mit der Familie verbracht: Gutes Wetter, gutes Essen, gute Gesellschaft. Drumherum waren immer noch ein paar umzugsbezogene Dinge zu erledigen. Reicht auch dann für heute. Gute Nacht!