Tech stuff and Free Software
A page for techies. My Kit, and some free software you may find useful.
My Kit
Equipment:
I use Canon professional grade camera bodies and lenses. Flash equipment is also by Canon, supplemented by third-party accessories.
Post Processing:
I use professional software tools, mostly Capture One Pro, and monitor calibration using X-Rite Pantone Color-Munki. For fully colour-managed shoots I use a Color-Checker Passport to attain end-to-end colour calibration. Additinal software includes Affinity Photo by Serif and Topaz AI noise reduction, when required.
Some software for free
Though I'm not a professional (web) programmer, I learned my computer programming skills during my career as a product marketing engineer for microprocessors in multinational semiconductor companies (Assembly language and 'C', mostly), and while building this site over the last 10 years or so. When I changed jobs (a long time ago), I promised myself to not go and learn another programming language - I broke my promise... :)
While developing this website, I made some web-based utilities for myself (also, just for the fun of it) which I decided to post here, in case they are of use to others. Contact me if you'd like to get the source code.
These browser-based tools and fun things I developed are offered as-is, with no guarantees what so ever. They should work on most modern browsers though some may be a bit pointless on a mobile device.
- Colour scheme maker. Experiment with HSL and make HEX data for websites
- Rich text editor (Nicedit instance) can clean tags from MS-WORD text for HTML
- QR code generator, for text (websites, emails, ...) or VCARD (contacts)
- Copy (photo) files into folders by date.
- CSS "Spinner" (used on the home page while loading)
- Automatic answer generator, for those sometimes difficult messages. :)
- Exposure Calculator, for when using ND filters.