You might remember my post two months ago showing a Nikon D3 shutter release in super-slow motion, using original images ingeniously created by Marianne Oelund. With them, I created an interactive movie where you can scrub the mouse side to side, back and forth, progress the movie in either direction at any speed you like. I also described how she made the frames, along with some stats about the shutter timing and speed.

If you're at all into photography, it's fairly interesting, and it's been by far my most popular post, and two months later, it still gets thousands of [...]
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This evening we had perhaps the most stunning sunset I have ever seen.

Sadly, I saw it from the photographically-unappealing vantage of the fifth-floor walkway in my condo, but at least I got to see it. When I first caught a glimpse, I literally sprinted for the elevator, and the photo above is the first I snapped when I got up there.

(By the way, that's Kyoto Tower in the lower left, seen previously on my blog here, here, here, and here)

Some sunsets have a mesmerizing mix of reds, oranges, yellows, and a deep blue from the sky. Not [...]

The screenshot above shows how I geoencoded the images in yesterday's post about a train and boat ride.

Introduction

Today I'm releasing a beta version of a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, "Jeffrey's GPS Support", that adds support for Geoencoding photos from within Lightroom. There are more features yet to add, but it's already polished enough for daily use, offering even the ability to geoencode speed and bearing.

Sadly, Lightroom does not allow for a plugin to easily update the "real" per-image GPS information in the Lightroom database, but this plugin takes an approach that should allow geoencoding to [...]

This evening, I've been testing some new code in my Lightroom export plugin for SmugMug that deals with replacing images already uploaded to SmugMug. In order to be able to quickly see whether a new image has replaced an old one, I would first go into Lightroom's develop module and slam some random slider to its hilt, making a wildly different result that, once uploaded, I could easily ascertain was different from the old one.

After things were working and I pushed out the new version of the plugin, I paused to actually look at the image my random testing [...]

Sigh, I just realized that the iPhone photo viewer does not even allow you to save/display high-resolution versions of photos you want to bring with you. That's fine for "pretty pictures" that you don't need to see detail on to appreciate (e.g. like those from my fall-foliage photo stream), but that makes the iPhone worthless for showing most daily snapshots, such as those from Anthony's kindergarten sports festival. The first thing a parent wants to do is zoom up to see the kid's smile, and on the iPhone all you see is the 640 × 480 image blown up with [...]
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