I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, for uploading directly to Expono. This joins my other uploaders (for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, PicasaWeb, and Facebook) on my Lightroom Goodies page. There you'll also find other plugins for various tasks, such as metadata management, geoencoding, proximity search, video-asset management, etc.

I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, Video-Asset Management, allowing a modicum of video management from within Lightroom.

I spent much of the last several weeks working on a custom-metadata plugin that looked to be really great, until I ran into a Lightroom bug that totally killed the project (and my spirits).

Then, I had a moment of inspiration where I relized that in this age where more and more cameras and cell phones are offering video capabilities, it would be really useful to manage those videos from within Lightroom, along side the images from the same event. [...]

Anthony noticed a crown-shaped image on a carton of milk (seen at right), and asked what it was. I explained that it was what happens when a drop of milk splashes, and he was quite interested, though somewhat skeptical.

I promised to show him, explaining that it was too fast for the eye to notice, but that we could use a camera to stop the action. His interest was piqued.

I set the camera up on a tripod, got a black dish and put some milk in it, set my SB-800 flash as a slave on 1/64 manual power and [...]

Just to continue on the string of tech/geek posts I've had lately, a quick addendum to yesterday's "Programming in the Stone Age: SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA1 in Pure Lua", I've also published my Twitter OAuth Authentication Routines in Lua, for Lightroom Plugins in case anyone has use for it.

Over the last month or so I've added a bunch of new Google Earth interaction to my Geoencoding Support Plugin for Adobe Lightroom. Especially interesting for those without a GPS unit or geoencoding old photos without a tracklog is the ability to navigate to a location in Google Earth, then import that location directly to a photo.

However, part of the problem is understanding exactly the location that will be imported. It's the center of the view screen in Google Earth, but unless you zoom way up, it's hard to visualize the exact spot that will be used. I've seen [...]