Display calibration

Yes, I admit, my passion for photography is getting to another level. Since we moved to our new house, we decided to have a large panaromatic print made of one of our pictures from our trip to Tuscany.

Now, whenever you go and spend big money to have a large print made and have it laminated on a carier to be put against your wall, you want the end result to be absolutely spot-on. One thing that’s always tricky when making print outs of your digital pictures, is getting the colors right. Things depend largely on the quality and color fidelity of your monitor. I recently upgraded my monitor to a nice Eizo model so I immediately went all the way and bought myself a monitor calibrator as well.

Bamboo

Was doing some photo editing this weekend and got so fed up with using just the touch pad in photoshop that I decided to go out and buy myself a graphic tablet. Normally I’m one of those guys who does an extensive research on the web, read through a lot of reviews and finally make a decision suddenly realizing my product of choice is way over my initial budget

This time it went completely different. I did some browsing on the web, compared some prices of products and found out that there is a considerable gap between tablets for home use and professional use. So I went out and bought myself a Wacom Bamboo, the latest in the non-professional line form Wacom. I’ve only used it 2 days now but I must say, WOW, I’m impressed! Especially for graphic editing I don’t understand how I could have managed with a touch pad or mouse until now. As a replacement for touch pad or mouse for just browsing or editing text documents, I’m not 100% convinced yet.

Boat trip

Today we were invited by friends to join them on a boat trip on the Leie, in and around the city of Gent. It was a last minute decision really since the weather forecast was predicting rain the whole day, not the ideal weather for a boat trip followed by a barbecue.

In the end, the weather turned out to be just fine with in the morning only small patches of clouds in the sky so we went to De Coupure to Minerva Boat Company were “our yacht” (:-)) was waiting. With a bunch of friends and some champagne we went out for a 2h trip on the Leie taking us all the way down to Drongen and Afsnee, as we were not allowed to head of in the other direction that would have taken us through the city center.

It was a very relaxing and enjoyable experience well worth doing again some day.