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6.14.2010
Super busy summer...
I moved back to Greenville for the summer with no plans and nothing on the radar, now I have a solid editing job for a professional photographer, as well as shooting and editing for my friend Marshall Terry who is a young and successfull wedding photographer. I am doing some stuff with Grasp Creative Technologies as well like the MRI photos for their client Upstate Veterinary Specialists.
Things always just fall into place and I have been put into a good position to spend much needed money on my photography equipment.I have just purchased a Nikon D90 and battery grip. I also worked out an editing deal with Marshall Terry to buy his Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens. This should be a big leap, considering everything in my portfolio up to now was captured with a D40 (yes...a D40..check the exif data). I'm planning a Yosemite trip this summer to do some serious landscape photography and video with the new camera.
When I am not at work editing I am usually studying photography. So far I have read "Light, Science, and Magic," "Studio Lighting Techniques for Photography," "Portrait Photography - Secrets of Posing and Lighting" and I have a few Scott Kelby and Joe McNally books to read. I have also been watching the DVD "Masters of Wedding Photography" and Joey L's behind the scenes DVD's. This summer is going to be a milestone to look back on in my personal photography and I can't wait for fall semester at Carolina for my first photography class (35mm B&W). Stay tuned, cool stuff is around the corner.
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4.14.2010
Thats a lot of css...
So for my first blog entry for this website I think I will use it to describe how I built this website for my computer science final.
The final assignment was to create a webpage using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript about something and it must have at least 4 pages. I am always hesitant to re-build my website because halfway through the project I change my mind and want to do it totally different. This time I thought long and hard and developed a plan of what I wanted to do. I wanted to push myself to build a modern website and truly understand everything about it. The content and pages were written in HTML5, sorry Internet Explorer users get a real browser.All of the visuals were coded in an external CSS stylesheet. I used a creative commons licensed JavaScript file to handle the fading slideshow on the main page. For the portfolio page each category link uses JavaScript to change the source of the Flickr slideshow playing.
Each content box is called by id and given its location. They are placed in a 700px wide div that is centered, left boxes are floated left and right boxes are floated right. The header and footer use the position:fixed property to stick in their respective locations, and a higher z-index than the rest of the content allow them to sit above everything else. The nav is fixed to the left and its location is based on a percentage so it stays where it is based on browswer window height.
If you want to check out all my source code, you can download my style.css here, and the photoshuffler.js here. You can view each html page by right clicking and choosing view source.