Three and a half months ago, after a lot of research and Lightroom plugin development, I published the long writeup "How To Best Export Lightroom Images to an iPad, iPhone, Etc.", about my Lightroom-to-iPad workflow at the time.

It's now completely out of date.

Most everything about my workflow has changed, all of it for the better. It's required months of development, a new Lightroom plugin (Collection Publisher) and major updates to my Crop for iPad plugin, but the result, unlike before, is something smooth and easy.

I'm still looking for the perfect photo-presentation app for my iPad, but [...]

Among the photos on "Intense Burn Begins", my most recent post about the Setsubun festival at the Heian Shrine earlier this month, was Ripples, showing a thin slice of focus in the tumultuous heated hair near the burning pyre. This post is a bunch more of the same, just 'cause I think it's interesting.

What follows are pairs of images, a crop hilighting something interesting, and the full frame it's from. In many of these the full frame is a throw-away shot, but I include it for context.

Continued here...

I'm looking for recommendations for a photo-viewing app for my iPad; Apple's "Photos" app has too many bugs and limitations for my needs. What I want seems simple -- an elegant way with which to impose my photos onto someone hapless to come within an eyeball's reach of me -- but I haven't found it yet.

Features that I hope for:

Clean, simple, uncluttered interface.

Photo update via FTP, Dropbox, or some other method where management is done on my computer and merely reflected to the device.

Supports display of basic metadata on each photo, when asked.

Supports display of [...]
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Continuing with posts about the Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine (Kyoto, Japan) earlier this month, following on from "Attack (and Repulsion) of the Evil Spirits" and "Beans of Good Fortune", we move on to the bonfire event.

I covered the same event four years ago in "Intense Burn: Shinto Rite at the Heian Shrine", so this year I was concerned less about documenting the event in photos than to see what kind of interesting shots I might get.

In the event, two bonfires are set alight, and the bundles of sticks are thrown in one by one. Each stick [...]

I released two new plugins for Adobe Lightroom today, my Folder Publisher and Collection Publisher. They're what my old "Tree Publisher" plugin should have been, with many extras. They allow you to replicate the folder or collection hierarchy in Lightroom out to local disk, and optionally even FTP the results somewhere.

I was never happy with the old tree publisher, but I'm quite happy with these two new ones. Combined with some big changes to my Crop for iPad plugin that I pushed recently, I've completely revamped my workflow to get a copy of my portfolio onto my iPad. I [...]
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