Met

My photographic activity barometer was stuck at the zero mark last weekend, but I had some quality time with my friends.
The pictures beneath where taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June this year. Since April they have a special exhibition of Greek and Roman sculptures. It was very quiet in there while outside right in front of the museum the Puerto Rican Day Parade was rioting...the whole world compressed to a little spot - also known as New York City.



Change Log

I just made two little changes in older postings. First of all I deleted the lens comparison I did earlier this year. After looking at more images, I'm quite sure that the comparison wasn't correct. Instead, it looks like the Tokina brings about the same results as the canon lens. The test was probably spoiled by people walking on the wooden floor of the church while I did an exposure.
The other change concerns a posting from last year where I showed a picture of Robin Williams as a comparison to someone I photographed who looks like him or even might be him. A while ago I read how expensive it can be to post a picture without having the copyrights. I simply took this picture out, just to be on the safe side.

Lytebox

I just started to experiment a bit with a javascript code called Lytebox. I saw how well it blends into Shape's blog and now I'm experimenting a bit. You can see it in action if your browser has javascript enabled. Just click on the image of my previous post or simply click here. The additional work to make an image appear like that is minimal, but there is one thing I'm not sure if I like it: It automatically scales the images down according to the browser window size and the image quality suffers from the downsampling. If I use it on a regular basis, I might upload a bit smaller images and take out the resizing code.