Cheers,
Brian

I have all kinds of custom scripts that I run on the server that hosts the blog. One grabs all the images that I’ve uploaded in the last few minutes and creates a post template with the images and all the metadata so that all I have to do is fill in the spaces between with witty text or compelling prose (or, in my case, rambling blather). I don’t know how others do it, but I can’t imagine doing it by hand. You might be able to configure Tim Armes’ LR/Transporter plugin to write the template for you. Hmmm… I could write a custom plugin that did this kind of thing…. Hmm…… —Jeffrey

I too am very interested in the various scripts you use to streamline and automate your process – especially the one that pulls each photo’s metadata and inserts it along with links to the images in a text file. It seems to me that this is something all photography enthusiasts can benefit from, and I’d love to see more bloggers doing it, as well as marking my own photos in that way.

First, I would say that I appreciate to read your blog that I have discover a few days ago.

I have a question about your photo workflow : could you explain us how you syncs up your GPS tracklog with the photos at step 2 ?

Your answer will be appreciate !

PS : big thanks for your book “Expressions régulières” (in french) which is always in my library

Thanks for the kind words, Florent. I wrote my own software to compare image times with data points in my tracklog, which then uses exiftool to inject each image’s data into the image file. These days, there are plety of solutions out there for any OS, so I wouldn’t build my own if I were starting today, but there wasn’t much out there when I first did this, so I had to roll my own…. —Jeffrey

Anyway:

Without saying too much, I have managed to create a keyboard specific to Lightroom users. It has cut my editing time by 70% because I no longer need to use my mouse to make changes to images because the keyboard controls most of the editing tools of Lightroom.

I thought your blog readers might be interested in knowing about it.

http://www.rpgkeys.com

Cheers
Tim Riley
http://www.rileyphotographic.com
http://www.rpgkeys.com

I am currently just uploading 1 version of each picture, sized to 1000px wide. I then have to upload it via the wordpress “write” screen, put it in the editor, then edit the properties to be 710 wide. This displays the photos on my blog at 710 but not without some crispy artifacts from the size-down. If I upload a 710 wide image, then I would have to manually link to another version which is larger… too much work, I’m looking for an easy way to post images that look good and still enlarge. Maybe it’s just asking too much!

I wish I could just upload a photo of any size (even starting large like 10 or 12 MP, or not, wouldn’t matter as long as it was larger than my pre-set max size), and then have the blog resize it to a pre-set 710 version for the post view and a pre-set 1200 version for enlargement automatically. The huge version I uploaded would be discarded. I can dream…

Thanks!