General

Hahah . . . how many of you are old enough to know what this is?

Google Chrome has been colour space aware since version 3 (I think) but a recent search for "Google Chrome colour management" on Google, ironically, did not yield instructions for how to activate it. For this reason, and for personal reference, I am posting the instructions here. I have only tested this functionality in Windows Vista but I am guessing that Windows XP w/ Windows Color Control Panel installed and Vista and beyond plus Mac OS should work similarly. 

In your shortcut to launch Google Chrome you'll need to add this switch after whatever you find in the "Target" box in the shortcut's properties:

--enable-monitor-profile

So it should look something like:

Now just make sure that you use the shortcut and not some other way to launch Chrome and you should be set. Hopefully Google will integrate colour management settings into a control panel similarly to how it is handled in Firefox. 

After years of neglect it was time to replace the first Klyment.com with some content that wasn't from my first three months of my career in photography. Let me know what you think. The change is temporary; I will be getting this website professionally developed in the near future (if all goes well). It won't be another photographer's portfolio on the internet; the new Klyment.com will also be a resource for other photographers with a few innovative and ergonomic tools to help photographers communicate ideas about lighting and shoots.

From:    Klyment Tan
Sent:    August-25-08 10:34 PM
To:    'TXBelger@
Subject:    RE: New Tracking
Attachments:    KTX_7934.jpg

Jason,

Sorry to bother you again about the missing roll of paper - everyone at this
location forgot about the order and the request to reject the shipment but the
paper actually arrived today. I'm trying to find an order number to help you
figure out which order I'm talking about but I don't seem to have a record of
it. The UPS tracking number: 1z531E596865076809. I attached a photo of what
arrived and I hope that you find it as amusing as I did. I guess UPS missed
the note about me ordering a 107" roll and not a 58" roll and a 49" roll with
one deckled end each in addition to throwing on a few extra months of delivery
time on an overnight shipment. =P

Let me know how to proceed and if there is any other information you need from
me to make a damage claim with UPS. I feel badly that you have to deal with
this - I realize that it's a drop shipment from Superior and you had no direct
hand in the ordeal that this has become.

As a side note, I ended up printing a backdrop with the colour that I needed
for that shoot and everything went well. Thanks again for your help. I'll give
you a shout if I need anything else. =)

- K

==============================================================================

From: TXBelger@
Sent: June-18-08 9:05 AM
To: Klyment Tan
Subject: Re: New Tracking

I am so sorry; it looks like we let you down on all counts with this
order.  If the order shows up, just refuse delivery so it will be
automatically rerouted to sender and we can file a damage claim with UPS to
recoup the cost.  We will credit your card for the full amount.

Again, please accept our deepest apologies for all the troubles associated
with this order - it is not the norm.

Visit www.BelgerPhotography.com for our best prices on digital, virtual, paper
and muslin backdrops, lighting, props, books, track systems and studio
equipment...you get combined shipping rates too!  

If you have any questions, please contact us.
 
Thank you,

Jason
Belger Photography
Website: www.BelgerPhotography.com
800-581-4676
Cell Phone and Houston callers phone: (281) 361-8328
fax: (281) 360-0816

The equipment listing on my site is very out-of-date. I'll eventually move these items onto that page:

• Capture Equipment
• Nikon
• D2X
• D300
• 17-55/2.8 DX Nikkor
• 70-200/2.8 VR Nikkor
• 135/2 Defocus Control Nikkor
• 60/2.8 Micro Nikkor
• 10.5/2.8 fisheye Nikkor
• 30/1.4 Sigma
• Rollei
• 6008AF w/ Phase One P20 digital back
• Schneider 80/2.8 AF Xenotar PQS HFT
• Zeiss 150/4 Sonnar PQ HFT
• Zeiss 50/4 Distagon PQ HFT
• Horseman
• LE w/ Betterlight 6000-HS digital scan back
• Rodenstock Grandagon-N 75/4.5 Copal 0
• Rodenstock Sironar-S 210/5.6 Copal 1
• Fujinon-SW 150/5.6 Seiko 1/500s shutter
• Lighting
• Strobe
• 3 x Bowens QuadX 3000
• 7 x Bowens Quad head
• 2 x Bowens Esprit Gemini monolight
• Bowens Explorer 1500 battery-powered pack (can run two Quad heads and two Esprit Gemini's simultaneously off battery)
• Balcar Nexus S3200
• 2 x Balcar PowerZ Heads
• Broncolor Grafit A4
• 2 x Broncolor Pulso G2
• Broncolor Hazylight
• Light modifiers
• 2 x Calumet Illuma Large (Plume Wafer 140 size) w/ 30 and 50degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crates
• Calumet Illuma Medium (Plume Wafer 100 size) w/ 40 degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crate
• Chimera Video Pro Plus medium w/ 20degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crate
• Chimera Video Pro Plus 22 x 84" strip w/ 40 degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crate
• Chimera 9 x 30" strip w/ 40 degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crate
• 2 x Bowens 7" grid reflectors with lots of grids + barndoors and snoots
• Bowens Softlight 15" reflector with opal diffuser w/ 7" spot grid centre
• 2 x Bowens Maxilite reflector
• Chimera and Redwing/Calumet quick release speed rings
• Westcott Scrim Jim 72 x 72"
• Continuous light
• 4 x Tungsten Fresnel theatrical spot lamps
• 2 x older Altman ellipsoidal reflector tungsten spot lamps
• ETC Source Four Jr. Zoom
• 2 x Flolight 200W (1000W tungsten equivalent?) dimmable, high frequency ballast fluorescent panel lights w/ grids
• Printing
• Epson Stylus Pro 9800 44" Ultrachrome K3
• Epson Stylus Pro 9600 44" Nanochrome failed experiment (waiting for new ink set)
• Modified Epson Stylus Photo 1400 6channel dye printer (quick proofing and mass production of headshots and album-display/short term wall display prints)
• Ergosoft Posterprint 12
• Onyx Postershop 7
• Qimage
• GretagMacbeth ProfileMaker Professional 5
• GretagMacbeth/X-rite Eye-one Pro UVcut
• Intelicoat canvases and signage materials
• Moab fine art papers
• Epson photo papers

I have lots of new work to post but I have imposed a moratorium on public posting of the photographs until after my clients get to use their photos for the first time. There are also some personal projects in the mix which I will post with the others. Expect to see a pile of new content around January 14th, 2008.

On the printing side, I have had success with Intelicoat's/Magiclee's newest canvas, Torino 21G (21mil glossy) on the Epson Stylus Pro 9800. It's a 100% cotton canvas with a high gloss finish. One of the reasons why I strayed away from Epson's/Premier Art's Water Resistant Canvas in the first place was because of it's glossy finish which was more of a semi-gloss to start. It had poor blacks and the texture made glare on this canvas pretty bad even if one were to try to matte down the glare or bring out the blacks with a dMax enhancing varnish. Torino 21G has worked very well when first coated with Lumina's Aquacryl Gloss liquid laminate, allowed to set for 24hours and then sprayed again with Lumina's Aquacryl Satin liquid laminate and then allowed to set for another 24 hours. The major product drawback to this process is that the canvas is far from fast drying - the prints are not smudge proof until after 48hours and only then should one spray coat them and roller and brush application of the veneer isn't an option. Each canvas takes four days from print to delivery but if you were to see the results you'd agree that it's worth it. Gamut charts will be posted soon discussing this.

• Backed up Gallery 2 database
• Upgraded Gallery from version 2.1.1 to version 2.2.3
• Backed up Serendipity database (274megabytes!)
• Upgraded Serendipity from version 0.8.5 (September 29, 2005) to version 1.2 (August 26, 2007)
• Testing of all capture and lighting equipment
• Almost everything passed tests
• Bowens QuadX 3000 misbehaved on last shoot and arced in studio - will be returned for Calumet for service
• Installed the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection including Photoshop CS3 Extended, Dreamweaver, and Premiere Pro

Leanna's 3year old Fujitsu convertible tablet PC's hard drive recently started showing symptoms of imminent failure so she requested that I order her a new hard drive. Her current hard drive is an older Toshiba 4200RPM 2.5" 40gigabyte hard drive. Her new drive will be one of the newer Seagate Momentus 5400.3 120gig HD's. I was hoping to find a quantitative comparison from a database of tests including her old drive and one of the 5400.3's but I came upon something a lot more interesting. In a highly-positive review of the 5400.3, I found a link to Hitachi's animation explaining perpendicular recording which is employed in Seagate HD's as well. I found the animation entertaining and educational and the amusement value of this musical animation is something even non-geeks can appreciate.

I've encountered this asshole three times this year. He asks for money for transportation to meet his son/wife/close relative and he's usually about $40 short. He'll take whatever money that you have on you and even if you say you have no money he'll even suggest that you go to a bank machine to withdraw some for him. My previous encounter with him was documented in this blog entry. Looks like I did give him a bit of money. Thanks to Jonathan for pointing out the obvious to me. See his "anonymous" comment on the aforementioned entry.

http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/feature/elections2006/

Voting green doesn't necessarily mean voting for the Green Party candidate in your riding but some parties are certainly greener than others. Check out the link with questions and answers sent to each of the major political parties running in this year's election and compare them . . . some funny stuff comes up. As of this entry's publication the Conservatives have yet to submit a response. All four of the other parties questioned have already answered . . . the Bloc was the first to respond on December 7th. December 14th, 15th, and January 3rd, Liberals, Green Party, and NDP respond, respectively.

Sign printing is one of the services I offer with my large format printing system. The ability for me to create signs gives me a false sense of authority in topics related to signage and signage printing and a perceived capacity to tell certain things about people who create signs or are otherwise involved in making them. Here is a collection of photos of stuff that I thought was interesting and related to this topic. Accompanying each photo is a little blurb to give some context around the photo and also my identification of a character trait or business skill related to the sign's owner.

I don't mean any disrespect to Christians or other people who share Christian beliefs but for me, "Christmas Time" is the most irritating and depressing time of year. Here's why.

1. The snow: most Christmas' it's not all snowy or all warm and dry . . . there's usually this mix of ugly brown slush everywhere.
2. I can't be the only person that thinks green looks hideous with red.
3. My parents listen to EZ Rock 104.9 FM in the car and this station becomes "The Christmas Station" right after Halloween. I hate driving alone so I have to choose between two things that I don't really like.
4. On the aforementioned radio station, Christian fundamentalists preach family values and give unsolicited advice for living your life . . . more often than they do at other times of the year.
5. I know that everyone that I should be giving something to on special ocassions wants a thoughtful gift but, as I'm sure you all know, I have way too many friends and too few brain cycles to share with everyone. These people should just accept a useful gift and shut up about it.
6. Since CIBC's very public and very embarassing involvement in the Enron and Worldcom scandals, The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has enacted policies in that any bank worker can point to and use as excuses for adjusting fees or bending rules thus preventing legitimate business people from attaining financing for the purchase of highly liquid capital assets. However, there are no policies in place that prevent all four people who are responsible for your business bank accounts at CIBC from simultaneously taking four week vacations or forcing these bottom-feeders of the finance industry to resolve basic banking issues in a timely manner.
7. There are a couple assholes that trespass through our acreage every year and top the nicest of our Colorado blue spruce. Little do these losers realize that I now have a firearms license, I can put five bullets into the area of a quarter of a dime at 250feet without a scope (hey, I'm a photographer), and, best of all, Chinese people eat anything.
8. Some (very clever and witty) motherfucker already beat me to the list. His reasons were written by a much more practiced hand he even has ten of them: http://www.angelfire.com/movies/oc/tirades/xmas.html.

5a. When I do come up with a truly useful and thoughtful gift idea, no one wants me to give it. Like my idea to give the universally-loved Hello Kitty vibrating massager to everyone in Leanna's family. Hey, if your dad wears Hello Kitty slippers he may as well have a matching vibrator.

Everything but #5 is more or less true. I actually don't have many friends and I believe that most of them are familiar with tradition and don't expect anything from me for Christmas. But if I do get/make them something, they are at least impressively adept at pretending to be grateful. Thanks, people.

05/01/2003 10:44PM - Jon Kwan

let me tell you abolut the funniest dumb shitty thing i did for the past ywear with your power supply

instead of having the second fan on the power supply facing downwards so it would suck air directly from inside the case,

i had it facing upwards

for the past year

a whole year

and i only noticed the other day

lol

08/01/2003 9:49PM - Jon Kwan

dammit

it's off ebay now

anyways

what happened was some guy put up an auction that was titled "SOCK O QUARTERS" and bascially what it was was a sock...full of some change, not even full, just got some change in there. He had pictures of him, with a paper bag with a face on it (9it was a big paper bag) swinigng it over his head, playing with is dog with it, and even him kinda sticking it in his groin area lol. "look at all the things you can do with sock o quarters!".

sold for about 40 bucks last i checked

what's even funnier is the paper bag was put up for auction too later, though i don't know how much that sold for, and it was signed by him haahaha.

23/02/2003 11:24pm MST - Jordan Shaw

heh, the speedy 1x (CD-ROM Drive) bastards. Woo, try booting an OS off one of those. It's painful. |

It's like trying to suck the ocean through a straw.

24/02/2003 1:32AM MST - Jordan Shaw

Hm, it's amazing how much weird shit you can buy in Japan. As opposed to the miles of weird shit you can buy here, but don't think about because it's normal.

(In response to http://sexylosers.keenspace.com/)

 

Akash Khokar - February 25, 2003 12:16am

Klyment: I know you want one of those "Hello Kitty Vibrating Massagers". =P

Akash: oh god, yes, so i can be gay and a fob at the same time sounds to me like smth to please most of the osa crowd

K: ROFL!!!!!!!!!! HAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A: you know you're included, why are you laughing haha