Category: Photography
Article: Tag summer travel photos with GPS info
Summer isn’t over yet, and my latest Seattle Times Practical Mac column looks at options for capturing GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) location data to record where your photos are taken. I talk about using an iPhone or other GPS-enabled smartphone to grab locations by shooting reference photos alongside the shots you take with a digital ...
Chapter 8 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Available
We’re almost there. The latest chapter of my book Take Control of Your Digital Photos is now online for TidBITS Members, and it’s an important one: “Back Up and Archive Your Photos.” Digital photography is great in that you can shoot and store so many photos, but a failed hard disk can wipe them out. ...
Link: Regular People Have No Idea How to Manage Photos on Their iPhone
This post by Bradley Chambers is spot on: Regular People Have No Idea How to Manage Photos on Their iPhone. It’s really bizarre that Apple is so consistently behind when it comes to iCloud storage and photo management. Key point: Also, photo stream needs to be reversed. Apple should store ALL photos/video taken with your ...
Article: Take Better DSLR Shots Using… Your Smartphone?
Macworld has just published an article of mine that was fun to write: “Take Better DSLR Shots Using… Your Smartphone?” I look at three devices that control a DSLR wirelessly using an iOS device: the CamRanger, CameraMator, and iUSBportCamera. Although similar in general, each device has its own advantages and disadvantages, which I detail in ...
Chapter 7 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Available
If you’re a TidBITS Member, head over to read the latest chapter of my book-in-progress Take Control of Your Digital Photos, “Organize Photos into (Smart) Albums.” In this installment, I assemble all the work we’ve put into tagging and rating photos to quickly locate images. I also explain why I rarely use regular albums, opting ...
Chapter 6 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Is Now Available
We’re getting to the end of my serialized book Take Control of Your Digital Photos, and Chapter 6 is a doozy. In this new section, “Assign Keywords and Other Data,” I take a step beyond the advice earlier about assigning metadata during import and look at ways to efficiently tag your photos with additional metadata. ...
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