Tag: Photography

The Instagram Metadata Massacre

Instagram Fingers I've been playing around with the iPhone app Instagram.  I decided to give this freebie a try after a gaggle of soulless self promoting Apple marketing zombies declared it "imaging app of the year."  Instagram, like Hipstamatic,  (which incidentally stopped working after the last update), crops iPhone images to squares, applies hokey filters and then offers … Continue reading The Instagram Metadata Massacre →

Revenge of the PhD Camera

Hipstamatic water meter Cameras come in two flavors. There are expensive serious cameras used by serious photographers to take serious photographs and then there are PhD, (Push here Dummy), cameras. Serious cameras meet the highest technical standards, lenses are diffraction limited, chromatic aberration approaches zero, pixel counts match Nyquist limits, ISO's exceed retinal sensitivity, auto-focus is instantaneous, color spaces … Continue reading Revenge of the PhD Camera →

Assigning SmugMug Print Size Keys

I believe that a picture’s aspect ratio, its width divided by its height, should be tuned to its contents. Consequently, I am not a slave to standard aspect ratios and print sizes like the ones shown in the following table. Aspect Ratio Print Sizes (Short/Long) (Inches) --------------- ------------------------ 0.5 4x8, 5x10, 8x16, 10x20 0.7 3.5x5, … Continue reading Assigning SmugMug Print Size Keys →

Command Line C# SmugMug API Metadata Download

I have a skeleton in my photographic closet!  I enjoy hacking pictures as much as I enjoy shooting them.  Before digital photography I got my jollies the old fashioned way with chemicals:  dark room chemicals.  I still get all emotional when I remember the scent of a fixer.   Ahhh --- those were the days. Now,  … Continue reading Command Line C# SmugMug API Metadata Download →