Almost Done

It took me a while to go through all the snaps from the recent trip to Fraser's Hill. I managed to go through the first three days. Now, just the final day remaining and then the tagging plus uploading to my server would come next.

Maybe it would only be ready for upload to Flickr next week, if I have the time.

I must say that the combination of the Alpha 7R mark II and the Leica primes definitely shone. If only the combo did auto focus! When it came to contrast, sharpness and colour rendition it was almost flawless. They were about the only set of lens which could really extract the 42 MP goodness from the sensor.

Alright. Best be back to the editing. I might as well get them all sorted out by the New Year day off.

A Bit of Reading

Even though I have left my academic post, I had still been contributing by reviewing some papers for the local academic journal. There were times when this could be tricky, as most of my input turned out to be to correct their English and less to improve the actual structure.

But lately, I found that the quality had definitely improved over the last few months. Which can only be a healthy thing.

Now Uploading

All together, it was close to 600 snaps. Went through everything and almost half of them made the cut. All edited by this evening and ready for upload.

As per usual, I tended to put the metadata, and GPS coordinate pre-processing. An extra step but it would be worth it as by the time my photos exited Aperture, they had their borders and watermarks sorted out as well as tags, GPS locations and caption.

I would then be free to upload them anywhere and all the data would be attached. Uploading to Flickr for example, would just be a quick step through Flickery, and the locations, captions etc would already be attached. Walla!

Even though I use most of the social media as far as photography is concerned, I still use SmugMug as my main hub. It was easier for me to keep every photo in their place as well as exporting them from there using a flash slideshow. The slides could then be customized to the size I wanted.

What's next? An early night followed by an early morning to sort out some presentation slides for this weekend as next week. Good night .....