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Galleries

• A day at Crich Tramway Village
• Birds
• Butterflies
• China
• Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands
• Glamour and figure
• Landscape and light
• LRPS submissions
• Processed physiograms | Original physiograms
• Wildlife in Kenya
• Yosemite National Park

Supporting material

• Contact & commercial
• Articles & papers
• Links and references

Articles & papers on this web site

• Physiograms like no others (5 articles on physiograms, Lissajous, & twin-elliptical figures)
  • Physiogram techniques
  • Physiogram shapes and figures
  • Enhancing physiograms
  • Physiogram references
• Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society

DNG - Digital Negative format

• DNG articles and links

Helping to make an informed decision

• Benefits of DNG ("what's in it for me?")
• Products that support DNG in some way (cameras, raw converters, viewers, organisers, ingesters, etc)
• Products supporting XMP within DNG (eXtended Metadata Platform)
• Products without explicit DNG support (yet!)
• Endorsements for DNG (indications of "respectability")
• Using DNG safely (including ways of being confident about it)

Explanations

• Linear DNG (a little-known but powerful variant)
• Camera details embedded in DNG (a powerful but little understood aspect of DNG)
• DNG and camera innovation (no, DNG doesn't inhibit innovation!)
• DNG and variety (how DNG caters for variety in sensors and raw converters, etc)
• DNG specification (clarifying a few aspects of the DNG specifications)
• Support via DNG but not native raws (where cameras can only be handled via DNG)

Assistance

• Using Photoshop CS or CS2 for new cameras (how to use "the DNG route")

Discussion and commentary

• Speculations about DNG (what may happen in future?)
• Raw topics (discussion of a few topics concerning raw shooting)
• DNG versus HD Photo / JPEG XR (relationship with another image file format)
• OpenRAW and DNG (attitudes towards DNG)
• Dialogue with Juergen Specht (OpenRAW's anti-DNG proponent)
• Commentary on "DNG is not the answer" (about an article from Stuart Nixon)
• Commentary on "RAW format, the captive photo" (interviews with Dave Coffin and Juergen Specht)

History and historical articles

• A brief history of DNG
• DNG support, end-February & end-April 2005 (from Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie)
• DNG support, to end-September 2005 (by the end of the 1st year)
• DNG support, to end-September 2006 (by the end of the 2nd year)
• DNG support, to end-September 2007 (by the end of the 3rd year)

Microsoft's HD Photo / JPEG XR

• Introduction to HD Photo / JPEG XR
• A brief history of HD Photo
• Products that support HD Photo
• Some analysis of HD Photo
• Comparisons of lossy compression of HD Photo

• Index to "religions and gods"

Supporting material

• An informal summary of my curriculum vitae / CV / resumé
• Examples of my work

Papers and articles on this web site

• A Process For Designing A Value Chain For A New Product
  (A Project submitted to the Bradford University School of Management, 25th March 1997)
• AEIOU
  A simple checklist of understanding

Articles about web site development

• Layout tables considered valuable (5 articles discussing the value of layout tables)
  • Reflections on CSS Positioning
  • In defence of layout tables
  • A brief history of tables
  • Commentary on "Table Manners"
  • Sayings
• Separation of concerns (4 articles discussing the separation of content from presentation)
  • A content versus presentation paradox
  • Content defined by layout
  • CSS & mark-up tangled together
• The CSS Patio Garden ("Tableaux" - 2 articles & many pages about laying-out tables)
  • Constructing the Patio Garden
• Text on the web (4 articles discussing the specification of font properties)
  • Comparisons between font styles
  • Font style trends on the web
  • Aspect values for web fonts
• NewHTML
• Overview of some templates used on this site
• Variations on the 5-box 3-column layout (more than 10 techniques for this popular layout)
• Work in progress:
  • Corners