I was in bed reading a blog post by Dan James about what he learned from his Flickr statistics. Probably the main surprise for me was that my most used camera in 2021 was my Realme 6 Pro Android phone. Now of course Flickr only analyses the pictures I uploaded to my profile in 2021, it can’t see all images I shot with all cameras and didn’t upload. ... What do you think was your [most used camera] in 2021?…
Adobe Lightroom
The buzz around the web is that Adobe Lightroom does a shitty job with the handling of RAW FujiFilm X-Trans files and that Iridient X-Transformer is the fix. I think it's mostly ignorance from some photographers. Other photographers have taken a "zoom in until you find a difference" approach, testing the software, only to discover that the difference varies very subtlely between photographs and other factors help make the decision. I think that once an image has been post-processed, then…
Export Web Optimized Images Directly from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress
Posted on 3rd January 2019I'm lazy. I try to automate routine, repetitive tasks. One task that I performed repeated for photo blogging was export images to upload to WordPress. My workflow used to export sized images to disk, upload each image to WordPress, optimise the image with a WordPress plugin, and then edit the image caption for use later in a post. It was tedious. A few years ago, I simplified my workflow with a combination of Jeffrey Friedl's export filter and preset, Automattic's…
I've been advising friends and family about this for years. Several yearaa ago I switched from using iPhoto (what Photos used to be) for managing my photo catalogue to Adobe Lightroom. All my interchangealbe lens camera (ILC) images are imported into Lightroom Classic CC and organised as date based (YYYY/MM) file folders. On my iPhone I capture imagess with the Adobe Lightroom CC mobile app which syncs ny photos back to the Adobe Lightroom CC macOS app via Adobe's Creative…
Set WordPress Image Caption with Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata Wrangler Export Filter
Posted on 16th August 2018As of the beginning of 2020, LR/Instagram is no longer a viable way to post directly to Instagram. The developer’s note on their website says: “Service Note: Instagram has updated their protocol and currently plugin does not work. We are investigating the issue and the plugin will be updated when a fix is available.” Jeffrey Friedl is a software developer and photographer based in Japan. For years he has been scratching his own itch and creating plugins for Adobe Lightroom…