(How To) Wordpress Pinboard Slideshow- Adding Image Slideshow on front page

Wordpress Pinboard Slideshow Tutorial - Adding Image Slideshow on front page. I am a wedding photographer based in South Australia. If you like our article, do "Like" us on Facebook to show some support.

To start off, you need to install the Wordpress Pinboard Theme. This tutorial is about configuring the theme to make the slideshow work for your blog. I learnt how to configure this Pinboard theme to "Add Image Slideshow on front page" from a guy but his webpage is now in "construction" stage. Hence, I like to share the steps involved in getting my blog slideshow page up.

Adding Wordpress Pinboard Slideshow on front page

1. Create a post and put a photo in it. I create a new Category call "Sticky". Tick the box for "Sticky". The size I had in mine is 1140x450pixel. I have no other words nor second image in this single post. Tick the "Make this post sticky". Below is a "Quick Edit" clip of a post. 

2. Next, go to "Appearance" -> "Theme Options" and under "Portfolio Page", select "Sticky". Under "Home Page" (See below), you can exclude portfolio category from main loop by ticking the "Exclude Portfolio".

3. To add more photos into the slide show, you just have to create more post with a photo each and set the Categories to "Sticky".

Note: Title for these sticky posts are left blank. Therefore I do not have the title appearing on the photos. you can try to put some title and see what happen.

Now that you have the basic understanding of how the slideshow works, you should play around with with the tick boxes to find a style that suits your blog.

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Special thanks to Daniel, creator of Wordpress Theme Pinboard for sharing.

Canon 1ds, 50mm f/1.2L USM, 200mm f/2.0L IS USM and 400mm f/2.8L IS USM

Today, I just received my new toys. Canon 1ds, 50mm f/1.2L USM, 200mm f/2.0L IS USM and 400mm f/2.8L IS USM. I have intentionally left the word miniature out from the title heading. If these photos are real enough, people will be deceived. However, a closer look at the lenses, you can really tell that's its a miniature copy. I have been waiting for this for nearly 5 weeks. The actual equipment is the dream gears for most sports and wildlife photographers. Wedding photographers don't really need such long lenses. However, I will be putting these toys to test in the future, stay tune! Review: Colours on the white lenses are not as white. Pretty disappointed with the painting on the 400L with the red line painted out of line. Some of the words are really small. Well done on the miniatures. Overall, I can say that it looks pretty real. Its the smallest size I found. Its 1/6 of actual size. It is the most real look alike that I found. Some other miniature that I found have a gap between the lens and the camera body. This is by far the smallest and the best.

It will be better when the 50L is fitted onto the camera, the word "Canon" can be straight. See picture below. Maybe I am too critical on these minor details.

Below, Left to Right: Canon 1ds with 50mm f/1.2L USM, 200mm f/2.0L IS USM and 400mm f/2.8L IS USM

Below: Shows the actual size of the camera in real size compared to a 20cent.

Yes, this is a miniature copy of the original camera and lenses. The 20cent coin is the actual size (It's not a 50cm 20cent coin). I found another seller that sells 1/4 size of the acutal model. It's larger than the above but its twice as expensive. Perhaps, I will purchase that some day too.

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How sharp are we?

Of course, as a wedding photographer, sharpness is one of the factors to a good photo. Here's an example of how sharp our photos can be. In any photography courses, you will learnt that composite, rule of 1/3, lighting etc are also keys to a good photo. In this instances, I like to focus on my photo quality, sharpness.

Achieving sharp photos must first start with good quality lenses. This is the sole reason why I use high end quality equipment. You cannot make a poor image quality good but you can make a good quality photo poor.

Sharpness can be quite subjective. I don't pixel-peep. Pixel-peep is a term where photographers go into great details (zooming in) into a photo and see how sharp the photos are. With each of my photo, I know where the focus is locked. During my editing process, I do look for overall sharpness of the focused point/plane. Sharpness can be "adding" via post-processing as well. In the near future, I hope I will have the time to give a tutorial on How to sharpen your image with photoshop.

On the other end, you can also have photos that are too sharp. People want to look best in photo. They want to look good with smooth skin complexion. In this case, sharpness have to be smoothen out with post-processing to get rid of bumps and humps. This is generally the case for fashion/modelling photography.

Outliers: There will be photos that sit outside this technicality. Often, movement on dance floor are captured by dragging of shutter speed to create the feel of motion.

Different camera models will have different megapixel. Hence, sizes of photos from different camera will be different. Camera models can contribute to the sharpness of an image but these days, this is often not the case.

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