Since writing "A Few Polarization-Filter Examples" several years ago, I've been meaning to do a post on a polarization filter's effects when shooting fall foliage. Over the years I've mentioned some effect or other of a polarization filer on my blog (such as here, here, and here), but I'm only now getting to filling in a huge deficiency of my 2007 post on making the best of bright light in fall-color photography by demonstrating how useful a polarizing filter can be when shooting foliage.

While at the Yoshiminedera Temple south of Kyoto during various trips last year, I did something [...]

Wow, what an ordeal. It started a month or so ago when I decided to put some of my photos on my iPad and iPhone, and found that it was harder to do well than I would have thought. A lot harder.

A month later, finally, and I have a good workflow. It turns out that I ended up writing a new Lightroom plugin ("Crop for iPad", which I've just released), and updated two others, geoencoding support and my Tree Publisher. All just to get reasonable copies of my photos on my iPad and iPhone.

I wrote up my experiences [...]

Like many eagerly awaiting an iPhone 5 announcement, I was disappointed the other day when Apple announced the iPhone 4s. In thinking about the logical response to my disappointment, asking "would I have been happier had they named the new phone iPhone 5?" the answer is "no" because bumping up the number from 4 to 5 implies a revolution of some sort, and that's not present in the newly-announced phone.

"So what kind of new revolutionary features were you hoping for?" you might ask, and I think the answer is telling about why Apple is the success it is: [...]
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FYI, I've just pushed calendar template PSD files for 2012, on my Photoshop calendar-template-building script page. If you can run the script, you don't need the templates, but if you can't, they'll perhaps be useful in making your own 2012 calendars.

Twitter added the ability to include a photo with a tweet a few days ago, so I've had my nose to the development grindstone and today release my "Export to Twitter" plugin.

Most of my "export to..." plugins (e.g. to Flickr or Facebook....) already included the ability to tweet a notice of an upload, and over the next few days they'll also get the ability to include a photo in a tweet, but this new plugin is a standalone tweeter.

(See my Lightroom Goodies page lists all my export-to plugins, as well as my many other Lightroom enhancements.)

And [...]