Posted on October 3rd, 2008
I never really feel like writing a long blog post about BarCamps, much like Melinda does do. Instead I take photos of unsuspecting people and upload them to Flickr afterwards. Here is a quick pick of some of the best.
Somehow Ian is on to me, not sure why
James and Ryan gave us some improv lessons
We had a “Bring Your Own Gadgets” sessions in which quite a few people played with others’ gadgets
Reinier brought his RC helicopter
Ahh, this is why Ian was on to me: I kept making humiliating photos of him!
Posted on October 3rd, 2008
After the last post I noticed that there is a difference between how the photo of the kitteh is rendered.
Below is Safari3, or how I would like to call it “how it ought to be” and above is Firefox3 or “the f’ed up version”. As we can see Firefox3 shows images with way less contrast, with a bit of a grey overlay. So I did a quick call on Jaiku and Twitter and came across this post that explains that color profiles are off by default in Firefox.
For those who don’t know what color profiles are, read up on wikipedia about color management:
In digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media.
Firefox3 does have an option to turn color profiles on, but it is turned off by default for “performance reasons”. I think this is bollocks and everyone should always see photos as the creator intended so I decided to turn them on.
The hard way of doing this involves editing some configuration in about:config but an easier way is to install this plugin instead.
So go and do this now and make sure you get to see my, and other people’s photos the way they should look.
Posted on October 3rd, 2008
