I read about Lulu Publishing Service over at Greg Smith’s Blog (via Smart Home Hacks). They offer pretty cheap publishing (books at $4.53 + $0.15/color page +$0.02/bw page). and you can even add a “profit” you get if your book (calendar, cd, etc.) sells.

The NYT has an article about GPS enabled photography (forgoing of first-born child required). They cite Frederik Ramm from Karlsruhe and his trip around Northern Scotland. The other is Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman.

Of course, neither have geolocation information in their headers. Have to see if they’re using geographic info in their EXIF data.

So I’m getting into the using my new Pentax *istDS and I’m trying to figure out the best workflow. In the past, I just dumped the entire contents of my Canon S330 into iPhoto, edited, managed, etc. Which was nice, but now that I’m shooting much larger pictures, and not just on trips, I’d like to figure out a better system.

Specifically, I want to accomplish the following things:

• Retain EXIF data for review/learning
• Add geographic location to EXIF data
• Convert to TIFF for preventing JPEG artificacts during editing
• Adjust exposure, levels, sharpness
• Remove unwanted photos
• Export photos to Photoblog/Flickr/Gallery
• Make prints of nice photos for framing, photo album

So far, the tools I’ve found to do this have been pretty good. The biggest suprise was finding out that QuickImageCM as well as Apple’s bundled Graphic Converter both strip the EXIF data when converting from JPEG to TIFF. Adobe Photoshop CS doesn’t seem to do this.

Really, I think it would be nice to put all of the above features in a folder action but that requires having apps that are Applescriptable. Maybe Mac OS X Tiger’s Automator will help in this regard.

So my current worflow is:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS
2. GPSPhotoLinker
3. iPhoto

Any suggestions for smoothing out this flow?

via Gavin Laking I’m trying to put in the calendar hack to put cute-liddl’-ol’-images for the dates. however, instead of some little tab for the calendar day, I’d like to put an image from flickr or the photoblog for that day.

Found a Thread at photo.net where people suggest places to photograph (and hence probably visit in general) around the Michigan area.

I feel like I’ve neglected my time in the area and not given it a real chance, so I’ll have to start going down this list and checking sites off.

And found out today our Admin Asst., who has lived in the area her whole life, has never been more than 10 miles west of where she grew up/lives.