I use the following products to create this web site:
- Photographic Equipment
- My terrestial (above ground) images were primarily taken with an Olympus E-20 which is a 5.2 mega-pixel camera with a wonderful lens. That was replaced in 2008 with a Nikon D300, which has a 12.2 MP sensor.
- My underwater images were primarily taken with an Olympus C-8080 which is an 8 mega-pixel camera. This camera has also taken the underwater videos that you see on the web site. It's housed in an Olympus PT-023 underwater housing. My current setup includes dual Sea&Sea YS-90 strobes connected by a Y cable which plugs into TTL Digital Adapter from Heinrichs Weikamp.
- Video is shot using a Sony HDR-SR11 high definition video camera.
- Photographic Software
- All of the images are cataloged using ThumbsPlus. This software creates a database of all of my images which is searchable. I use to it assign values to IPTC fields, which are used to generate the titles and image tooltips within the web gallaries. Take a look at XnView, as it's free and does most of what ThumbsPlus does.
- Adobe PhotoShop is used to edit all of my images.
- The photo gallaries are generated using Arles from Digital Dutch. This is by far the best photo gallery creation software that I've found and the support is outstanding.
- The videos are edited using Video Studio from Corel. I find the software easy to understand and use. It doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of products such as Adobe Premier, but you don't need to take a class to understand and use it.
- Videos created using Video Studeo are converted to DIVX format and uploaded to YouTube using the DIVX Converter.
- Web Design
- The web site has been converted to a database design where the logs are stored in a MySQL database. This allows the interactive GoogleMaps to be generated and I can now e-mail the logs to website.
- I now utilize DreamWeaver from Adobe/Macromedia to edit the site. Note that this is an expensive and complex product, and I wouldn't recommend it to the novice.
- The web site is hosted by pair.com and they provide wonderful support and service. I've had zero problems with them.