March 2009

Like a kid at the playground


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Train ride from Delhi to Agra, originally uploaded by kevinbhookun. Slums between Delhi and Agra (2006)


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Tall grass in the bog, originally uploaded by kevinbhookun. and I am looking forward to it.


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What kind of DAM process do I use? Digital Assets Management has been a no-brainer for me since the introduction of Adobe Lightroom and Apple's response Aperture a couple years ago. A lot has happened since then. Plugins and add-ons emerged to make the workflow easier. Gone are the days of fiddling with folders and finder items, or are they really? With all the widgets, gadgets and plugins around today, I found myself drifting out of the all-in-one solution basket, towards a more universalist view on how to manage my workflow. Workflow for a professional photographer can be a headache, as not only...


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Here are the results of Test #2, still no hike/walk/run, this time bus to the city. This includes tunnels, overpasses, intermitant loss of signal - This is where the unit just draws a straight line until it picks up the signal again. Verdict: Considering the CS1 being inside my bag, and me being inside a bus, going in tunnels, under highways etc, this is still pretty acceptable. The next test will be the true to the task test, hiking and actually geo-coding images. Tools I find useful: Loadmytracks.app (free) easily reads NMEA data and converts to GPX and KML files. TrailRunner (free) helps...


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Ok so the previous idea was great, the nokia, the bluetooth GPS and the 20 steps to geo-tagging an image when I get home. I had it all planned out. No, really I did. We took a drive (5 hours) to Quebec City last weekend. Great weather, great place. Among other things, I wanted to test my previous write up. Turned on the GPS, started the track record on the nokia, and went on walking and taking photos... It is only later on, when I got back home 2 days later that I realized that the GPX file generated by the nokia app had locked and was corrupted. All the points had the same coordinates. No good. Today,...


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Because there is a difference... Since having iPhoto '09, my interest in geotagging images has been revived. I am now victim of this new obsession of getting GPS location embedded in my vacation images. Why? no real reason, just the "Cool" factor, and the fact that it is afterall not that difficult to do. It is not difficult but it can get expensive and you can easily get carried away into spending hundreds of dollars in cool gadgets that can do just about as much as I will explain below. I didn't want to spend any money. well I did, but I didn't. If you see what I mean. I already have access...


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