I’m having some more fun with the time-elapsed feature of my new camera. It has an ability to take the most trivial things and make them at least a little interesting. Check out this video of my morning drive. There is a decent amount of sun glare, and the “mount” wasn’t all that …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Drive to Work
I’ve been thinking for a while about upgrading my small, travel-friendly camera. I’ve had a Canon S500 for nearly three years. It is/was a great camera, and amazingly rugged. But, it was a litle too heavy, and not small enough to slip into your shirt pocket so it wasn’t great for …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Canon SD750
I’ve been digging into Lightroom and continue to be excited about the ability to use my digital photo library in many new ways. Lightroom has a lot of power, and so far I’ve mostly been working in the Library module. The Library module is all about metadata, data about data. …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Lightroom Keywords
Why is it that almost all GPS units decide that when you save your active track into memory that they should degrade functionality? Yes, it is true. Nearly all GPS units upon saving do two things. First, they discard the time and date information from the track. Secondly, they …
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OMG! GPS unit that attaches to your DSLR hotshoe! OMG!
Many of my friends know that I’ve been pretty infatuated with the new Adobe Lightroom product even before it’s release. I’ve brought nearly 40,000 photos into Lightroom and I’m finding it incredibly powerful for managing my ever growing collection of photos.
Lightroom offers many …
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Downloaded the release version of Lightroom! It has been upgrading the library from beta for 1+ hour. Waiting.
Lightroom still upgrading library, nearly 4 hours now. Giving up for tonight. Disappointed that I didn’t get to play.
My software needs to start doing more work for me. Really. Either that or I need to get a digital librarian. What for you ask? I feel like I’m dying under the weight of metadata, data about data.
The vast archive of 33,000 digital photos that I have, the 400GB of music I’ve …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Death by Metadata