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Photos of Japan after Earthquake and Tsunami

Joe — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:03:22 +0000

The New York Times has a selection of breathtaking photographs of the destruction caused by the Japanese earthquake and Tsunami, click here to see

Words can’t describe…

Images all © New York Times

Merry Christmas!

Joe — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:43:32 +0000

Convert Flickr metadata to Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop presets

Joe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:05 +0000

Flickr allows photo metadata to be shown with each photo. The metadata contains shooting information about the photo- eg shutter speed, aperture etc. It can also contain the RAW conversion settings used to process the original RAW photo file. Therefore it’s possible to copy across the settings into your own Lightroom or Photoshop presets to create a similar ‘look’ for your own photos.

After quickly getting tired of copying settings across manually, I developed a tool which will output a Lightroom or Photoshop preset file based on the metadata found for that Flickr photo. Simply enter the full URL of the photo into the tool below and you’re away!

It is limited to photos which have metadata publicly available. Also custom point tone curve information isn’t converted- as the Flickr metadata page unfortunately doesn’t show all it.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or find any bugs. If you find it useful and have a website, please link to this blog post.

UPDATE 05/05/2010: Flickr doesn’t show the processing settings on their metadata page anymore – so unfortunately this converter won’t work any longer. Hope you enjoyed it whilst you had time to use it. Since it’s creation it’s done 3962 conversions!

12 favourite Flickr photos

Joe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:27:42 +0000

Somehow I couldn’t whittle these down to just 10…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliviaaboone/3413132355/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darad/3647545934/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbokeh/3431041361/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luke_photos/3253547711/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfphoto/3083636655/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jup3nep/3183738239/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moretrees/2924950280/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbaka/2881682850/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21963462@N07/2584732746/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayodeok/2084089437/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualbiscuit/3516078086/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22553353@N00/3618847572/

Tokyo at night

Joe — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:32:22 +0000

Dark Roasted Blend have a great blog post featuring Thomas Birke’s large format photos of Tokyo at night. Thomas also has a Flickr account which is filled with great shots. Here’s a preview: