Finally the new version of my main homepage is online!
Changes
The layout is more clean than the last one. I still liked the old one, but as I worked on it anyway, I decided to change almost anything. The colour theme is similar, but fits this blog more closely now. I changed the image selector and there is a main gallery page now. The images are shown in reverse order of time added.
Technically I switched to dynamically created pages using PHP. My old ones were created pseudo-dynamical using a script on my PC, but adding new images got a bit complex. This is much easier now.
The images
All images are available in a larger version now. If you click on the standard view, the bigger image will be shown (up to 1 MP). Regarding the smoothness of the images, the normal sizes seem to fit better with reality… I'll replace all images on flickr with these larger ones as well.
I changed the reproduction of the Cyanotypes as well and didn't use a scanner any longer. With a scanner it was always difficult to get consistent colour and contrast. So now I did use my Canon EOS 20D, metered using a gray-card, and did a fixed white balance using a white-card. I used one constant setting in the camera to create the jpegs (parameter set 2, which I use normally, with contrast +2). For lightning I used halogen lamps (first I did use an external flash, but this way the lightning was more even). I just corrected alignment problems and cropped the images, I didn't change to colour or contrast!
Test it
Please test it and if you see glitches, add a comment or write an email and tell me. I did only test using Firefox 1.5 thoroughly, so please tell me which browser you use, if you experience problems. All old links to the images should still work (redirecting to the new layout), as I still have to update my plugin for this blog to show the random Cyanotype.
