Tools

A growing list of tips, tutorials and tools that to help photographers as well as simple online development experiments.

Web Apps

  • Discovr
    Discovr
    I 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 …
  • My Keyworder
    My Keyworder
    MyKeyworder.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 2 months had already processed over 30,000 searches. You can read more about it’s evolution through the blog entries.
  • Check Me In for Meetup
    Check Me In for Meetup
    About “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 …

Tutorials

  • Travel Photography – A workflow approach
    Travel Photography – A workflow approach
    A 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.
  • Getting rid of haze
    Getting rid of haze
    A look at how to remove haze from landscape photographs in hot tropical climates

Fun

  • What The Duck
    What The Duck
    The latest comic strips from What The Duck