TECHNICAL DETAILS
(For those sad people just like me)

This Site is constucted using Namo Web Editor 5 which is a very easy to use website creation program that you can use as a simple 'what you see is what you get' cut and paste type program or you can use it as an HTML editor and input all the code manually, I use a combination of both these myself depending on the type of work I'm doing on the site.

I use both a Sony DSC-S50 and Nikon D100/D200 cameras for all of the site photos. I use a lighting rig using various amounts of daylight bulbs (depending on the size of the piece being photographed) for illuminating the pieces or if possible I try to use natural light with silver or gold reflectors to reduce shadows (white card works wonders here to)

I then use Adobe Photoshop CS for resizing/cropping all the pictures and for any minor defects that need to be touched up like removing unwanted background detail, other than that the pictures remain untouched.

The piece rotations are originaly taken as 76 separate photos with the piece stood on a turntable which I rotate by hand between each photo, I then animate them using Ulead Gif Animator 5, I then reduce these down to between 8 & 12 pictures for the web site to help with download times.

I also use Adobe Photoshop CS for creating any original art like the backgrounds, buttons and my small animations (which are then animated using Ulead Gif Animator 5 of which I hope to add more over time)

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