Archive for June, 2009

Rest in peace Michael Jackson

First set!

A little more than one week passed since i bough my D90.
This is the first set of pictures taken with my d90 and upload on internet.
All of them are taken last Sunday in Downtown Montreal.
The older ones are not bad either but i didn’t have time to sort them yet. Hopefully until the end of the week i’ll be able to upload some of them.

All of them can be found in my Gallery and a selection on Flickr.
Now i have a hard task: choose the best image and upload it on the Photoblog

One week

One week passed since i bought my D90.

Impressive camera compared with my old Canon S5 IS.
I’ve read the manual, I’ve read tutorials. I found tools like UFRaw, QTPfsGui, Gimp and i’m learning to use them.

I also learned about Barrel-Pincushion, Perspective Distortion and how to “fix” them with Hugin. Another good tool is: PTLens but unfortunately it doesn’t have a plugin for gimp.

Flickr Nikon D90 group is amazing too!

I didn’t have too much time to take photos and the weather didn’t help either but, today will be a nice day and, more than that, tonight i can shot Fireworks.

Hopefully, in a few days i’ll come here with images taken with D90

Nikon D90

I’m the happy owner of a Nikon D90
My first DSLR so, time to read the manual while the battery is charging.

Have some tips? Drop me a comment!

I hate IE

Yesterday i had to create a demo page.
Something simple: to put together a few links sorted in a few categories.
I decided to go with a vertical menu using unsorted lists and jQuery for a fading effect.
Easy job at first sight. Indeed, until IE8 decided to make me spend hours for a stupid bug.

I wasted  a lot of time to find out why A:hover didn’t work.
In fact is working but IE8 is sooo, sooo stupid.
It fails to render White or #FFFFFF (#FFF) as hover color so, if you really want to use white as hover, you better use something like #FFFFFE !!!

Check this link for more. A friend found it after i found the fix by trial and error and told him about the bug.

Edit:
In fact using white color for A:hover is working too but only if you specify a background color for A (in this case orange)

a{
    display:block;
    color: white;
    background-color: orange;
    text-decoration:none;
    padding:5px 5px 5px 25px;
}

a:hover {
    color:#333;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

If you want to use a transparent background, your only chance is to use #FFFFFE as background for A:hover:

a:hover {
    color:#333;
    background-color: #FFFFFE;
}