Damian's photos
Technical corner
This page discusses how I took the pictures.
I borrowed Rafe's Casio QV-10 digital camera to take to CAPTION97. This allowed me to take lots more pictures compared last year with my own camera, a fully-manual SLR. For one thing, it has no knobs to fiddle with (being fixed-focus and adjusting to light levels automatically). It is also quick and quiet, and can hold 96 pictures before I have to transfer them to a computer. Of course the images are much lower resolution than a film camera -- but this is just right for a web page. In the end I came away with 185 snaps, which has been narrowed down a little for this selection.
After transferring them to my 486 (as it then was) as JPEG files, I needed a way to index them. I threw together a display program in Tcl (the Tool Command Language, pronounced "tickle"). As well as listing the pictures by file name, it also allowed me to enter the names of people and descriptions, and a score (one of Good, Keep, Discard). The data files produced using this viewer were used by the Tcl scripts I used to generate the index pages and the per-person pages automatically (as described elsewhere).