Today I was writing / find photos to illustrate some more articles for my photo tips website. One photo that I looked at on flickr was CC licensed, but they had put in the description that it was for personal use only as per the CC-NC license, or something similar to that.
So that got me wondering what the actual definition of 'Non-Commercial' in the terms of creative commons licences meant. I always thought that it meant you couldn't use the image in something you were selling, but it would be okay to include in, say, a newsletter, or website. I tried to find the strict definition, but it seems that there isn't one, and it is open to interpretation: Creative Commons - Defining Noncommercial report published. (Despite the title of that post, it doesn't define what noncommercial means).
I think I will carry on using CC-NC licensed photos for my photo tips website. Although the site does have quite a few ads / affiliate links on it, I'm not selling anything that contains the images. If anyone's unhappy with me using their image, they can always contact me and ask for the image to be removed.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Various
This morning I updated my pog website after preparing the pog images yesterday evening. After that I went to Church.
After dinner I watched an episode of TNG with Mauser and Bo. In the afternoon I wrote a couple of Korea photos blog posts for my photo website.
It looked like there was going to be a nice sunset so I went out for a walk. I did take a few photos, but actually the sunset wasn't that great.
In the evening I had a haircut and finished off another Korea photos blog post.
After dinner I watched an episode of TNG with Mauser and Bo. In the afternoon I wrote a couple of Korea photos blog posts for my photo website.
It looked like there was going to be a nice sunset so I went out for a walk. I did take a few photos, but actually the sunset wasn't that great.
In the evening I had a haircut and finished off another Korea photos blog post.
Saturday, 5 March 2011
various
This morning I added the Korea panos I processed in the last couple of weeks to my pano website.
In the afternoon I was writing a Korea photos blog post for my photo website. I updated my gravatar profile and tried to get access to the latest version of FPP. This involved:
In the evening I watched an episode of Star Trek TNG with Mauser and Bo.
In the afternoon I was writing a Korea photos blog post for my photo website. I updated my gravatar profile and tried to get access to the latest version of FPP. This involved:
- Finding out how to get the latest version
- Trying to find a copy of the invoice / how to get the invoice
- Trying to log into the company that deals with the transactions' website
- Having to use an old reset password link I had on an email to log in to their website as the login form on the main page of their website doesn't work
- Downloading the invoice
- Trying to find my FPP forums password
- Failing, so having to reset my forum password
- Finally, emailing the administrator to allow me access to the private files area of the forum
In the evening I watched an episode of Star Trek TNG with Mauser and Bo.
Friday, 4 March 2011
Various
This morning I was trying to record a video tutorial for my website, the same one I was trying to record a week or so ago. Using the same program as I tried last time, Wondershare Demo Creator, I found that when I recorded a video of me using Photoshop or Windows Explorer, the cursor recorded as an hourglass. But when I recorded me using Google Chrome, the cursor recorded okay.
I tried Photoshop 32 bit version (normally I use the 64 bit version), and found the cursor recorded okay in that as well. So I guess there is a weird bug with Wondershare Demo Creator where it records the cursor as an hourglass for 64 bit programs.
I didn't record any audio with the video, so I had to do this after the fact, which took me quite a long time.
In the afternoon I went out to Little Bowden as the constant overcast sky we've had for the past week started to clear a bit. I took a couple of panos, making sure to take various nadir photos to illustrate an article I've written for my website. I still need a couple more photos for the article, but they require low light rather than midday sun.
In the afternoon and evening I finished off syncing the audio to the video I was working on in the morning, then uploaded it to youtube and updated my blog post the video was for.
I also watched the first episode of Star Trek Enterprise with Masuer and Bo, which I thought was quite good.
I tried Photoshop 32 bit version (normally I use the 64 bit version), and found the cursor recorded okay in that as well. So I guess there is a weird bug with Wondershare Demo Creator where it records the cursor as an hourglass for 64 bit programs.
I didn't record any audio with the video, so I had to do this after the fact, which took me quite a long time.
In the afternoon I went out to Little Bowden as the constant overcast sky we've had for the past week started to clear a bit. I took a couple of panos, making sure to take various nadir photos to illustrate an article I've written for my website. I still need a couple more photos for the article, but they require low light rather than midday sun.
In the afternoon and evening I finished off syncing the audio to the video I was working on in the morning, then uploaded it to youtube and updated my blog post the video was for.
I also watched the first episode of Star Trek Enterprise with Masuer and Bo, which I thought was quite good.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Article writing
Today I was just writing a couple of articles for my photo tips website, and I finished uploading the latest lot of Korea photos to my photo website.
In the evening I watched El Dorado, a John Wayne film, with Mauser and Bo.
In the evening I watched El Dorado, a John Wayne film, with Mauser and Bo.
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Metadataring finished for a bit
This morning I finished writing descriptions for my latest batch of Korea photos, then I checked they were geo-coded properly.
Unfortunately Robogeo wouldn't handle my filenames with foreign characters in them, so I tried to see if there was any other software that could geo-code photos using google earth / maps in a similar way to Robogeo. Doing a quick google, I found a suggestion for Google Picasa: Re: alternative to Robogeo... So I downloaded Picasa to give it a try.
Unfortunately, you can't just drag and drop a bunch of files to Picasa like you can with Robogeo, you need to add the base folder to Picasa's library. After doing that I tried searching for JPEG and TIFF files in Picasa, but it seems that Picasa doesn't support advanced searching.
In Windows you can search for both with a query like
When I tried the geocode and view in Google Earth options in Picasa, both of them did the same - just displayed thumbnails of all the images in Google Earth. What I wanted to do was to step through the images one by one in the order they were taken, checking that each image was correctly geo-coded. But obviously this isn't an option in Picasa.
So I uninstalled Picasa, and just temporarily renamed the filenames/paths with foreign characters in so I could check them with Robogeo. I did find a few that weren't geo-coded correctly, so I corrected these.
Unfortunately Robogeo doesn't support psd or psb files, so for JPEGs that were produced from a photoshop file. So for these files I had to geocode the JPEG using Robogeo. Then I had to export the XMP from the PSD using Adobe Bridge. Then I had to use ExiftoolGUI to copy the GPS data from the JPEG to the PSD. Then I had to re-import the XMP using Bridge.
The XMP exporting and then importing is because using ExiftoolGUI to write metadata to a file will make Bridge think that the XMP isn't UTF-8 encoded any more (this is a bug in Bridge).
When doing this I also found that some files had mysteriously become marked as 'hidden'. I have 'Show hidden and system files' ticked in Windows Explorer, so I could still see them, but they were at a slightly opacity to show they were hidden files. The only thing I can think that might have done this is Picasa.
Anyway, looking for a way to check how to search for hidden files, both Advanced tips for searching in Windows and Windows Search Advanced Query Syntax didn't seem to offer any way to find only hidden files. Reading this thread: Search for hidden files and folders in Windows 7, one of the commenters said that it is possible using the
After trying it, I couldn't get it to work properly, so I googled and found some examples with the correct syntax to use: Microsoft DOS dir command. So to search for only hidden files within a directory and all sub-directories, you cd to the directory, then run
In the afternoon I finished checking the photos' metadata, and started uploading them to the website.
It looked like it was going to be a nice sunset, but I decided not to go out until the nice looking sunset actually started. I was glad I did this as actually a large cloud moved in front of the sun, and there was no sunset to be seen.
For the rest of the afternoon and quite a bit of the evening I was uploading photos to my photo website and working on a couple of articles (from articlesbase.com) for my photography tips website.
In the evening I also watched an episode of Star Trek TNG with Mauser and Diddle Dude.
Unfortunately Robogeo wouldn't handle my filenames with foreign characters in them, so I tried to see if there was any other software that could geo-code photos using google earth / maps in a similar way to Robogeo. Doing a quick google, I found a suggestion for Google Picasa: Re: alternative to Robogeo... So I downloaded Picasa to give it a try.
Unfortunately, you can't just drag and drop a bunch of files to Picasa like you can with Robogeo, you need to add the base folder to Picasa's library. After doing that I tried searching for JPEG and TIFF files in Picasa, but it seems that Picasa doesn't support advanced searching.
In Windows you can search for both with a query like
.jpg OR .tiff. Advanced tips for searching in Windows.
When I tried the geocode and view in Google Earth options in Picasa, both of them did the same - just displayed thumbnails of all the images in Google Earth. What I wanted to do was to step through the images one by one in the order they were taken, checking that each image was correctly geo-coded. But obviously this isn't an option in Picasa.
So I uninstalled Picasa, and just temporarily renamed the filenames/paths with foreign characters in so I could check them with Robogeo. I did find a few that weren't geo-coded correctly, so I corrected these.
Unfortunately Robogeo doesn't support psd or psb files, so for JPEGs that were produced from a photoshop file. So for these files I had to geocode the JPEG using Robogeo. Then I had to export the XMP from the PSD using Adobe Bridge. Then I had to use ExiftoolGUI to copy the GPS data from the JPEG to the PSD. Then I had to re-import the XMP using Bridge.
The XMP exporting and then importing is because using ExiftoolGUI to write metadata to a file will make Bridge think that the XMP isn't UTF-8 encoded any more (this is a bug in Bridge).
When doing this I also found that some files had mysteriously become marked as 'hidden'. I have 'Show hidden and system files' ticked in Windows Explorer, so I could still see them, but they were at a slightly opacity to show they were hidden files. The only thing I can think that might have done this is Picasa.
Anyway, looking for a way to check how to search for hidden files, both Advanced tips for searching in Windows and Windows Search Advanced Query Syntax didn't seem to offer any way to find only hidden files. Reading this thread: Search for hidden files and folders in Windows 7, one of the commenters said that it is possible using the
dir command at the command prompt.After trying it, I couldn't get it to work properly, so I googled and found some examples with the correct syntax to use: Microsoft DOS dir command. So to search for only hidden files within a directory and all sub-directories, you cd to the directory, then run
dir /ah /sIn the afternoon I finished checking the photos' metadata, and started uploading them to the website.
It looked like it was going to be a nice sunset, but I decided not to go out until the nice looking sunset actually started. I was glad I did this as actually a large cloud moved in front of the sun, and there was no sunset to be seen.
For the rest of the afternoon and quite a bit of the evening I was uploading photos to my photo website and working on a couple of articles (from articlesbase.com) for my photography tips website.
In the evening I also watched an episode of Star Trek TNG with Mauser and Diddle Dude.
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Metadataring
Today I was still writing descriptions for Korea photos. I only have a few of the current batch left to do now, so hopefully can finish it off tomorrow.
I spent quite a while today just looking at photos of a gate, as I wanted to check that my photo was of this particular gate. Unfortunately all the photos I found were of the front of the gate, and my photo was of a small portion of the back of the gate. Still, I am pretty sure it is the same gate, but seems it was a waste of time searching for and looking through all the others photos of the gate.
I spent quite a while today just looking at photos of a gate, as I wanted to check that my photo was of this particular gate. Unfortunately all the photos I found were of the front of the gate, and my photo was of a small portion of the back of the gate. Still, I am pretty sure it is the same gate, but seems it was a waste of time searching for and looking through all the others photos of the gate.
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