Building a custom photo workflow: How I created "phloto" for my photography pipeline
By
evakhoury
The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
The author describes their personal photography workflow and the development of a custom software tool called "phloto" to manage tagging, encoding, and deploying photos to their website. They walk through their digital photo development process from capturing RAW files to final deployment, sharing both their photography gallery and the source code for their houseplant program.
Key quotes
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If you're interested, you can see the code here–but, fair warning, it's only meant to be useful to me.
When I'm developing a photo, I run through these steps: I take a picture. The camera captures a RAW file with the image sensor data. The camera embeds metadata: the camera model, lens model...
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