A growing list of tips, tutorials and tools that to help photographers as well as simple online development experiments.
Web Apps
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DiscovrI built Discovr using FlickrPHP and the Flickr API. The site allows you to do a keyword search for images across Flickr. But it doesn’t just return images that are tagged with your keyword, it returns all of the associated keywords for those images. So, in a way, it helps you to explore the tags …
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My KeyworderMyKeyworder.com is a fast and simple keyword generation tool designed for stock photographers looking to generate a list of associative keywords for tagging their images. It was launched in August 2011 and within 6 months had already processed over 100,000 searches. You can read more about it’s evolution through the blog entries.
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Check Me In for MeetupAbout “Check Me In” What does it do? The ability to perform a ‘roll call’ seems to be a much-requested capability that Meetup.com has chosen not to implement, and as it was something that my photography meetup group really needed, so I built it using Meetup’s API. Then I thought, why stop there, maybe it …
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Media converter for YouTubeMediaconverter.org is a handy little site that lets you download video (or just the soundtracks of video) posted to YouTube. At the time of writing, you get 5 conversions free per day if you visit the site, or unlimited if you register.
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Travel Photography – A workflow approachA look at my travel photography workflow. These are the slides from a presentation given in Hong Kong in early 2011. Examples images are from an expedition to India in late 2010.
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Getting rid of hazeA look at how to remove haze from landscape photographs in hot tropical climates
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Building this websiteA guide to how this website was built for people looking to build similar websites for themselves.
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Tag Cloud Search Capability for SlideshowPro Director APIHere is the code for the tag cloud search capability built for this website.
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What The DuckThe latest comic strips from What The Duck
