I am very interested in anyone thoughts on posting en-route... Here are mine...
The MOST convenient and easiest way to post photos ( either photos of people/scenes or photos of my sketches) is to take the photo and then with one email send it to my flickr account, my blog and my facebook. This is very very convenient – I am able to prepare the post at anytime and then send when I get back to hotel room (or free wifi hotspot)’
However, two(well 3) problems with this approach....
1. Facebook only picks up the email subject but not the message text
2. These emails to facebook are not visible by people that subscribe to my public updates
3. People who follow my blog get many (too many) blog posts in a day.
Facebook on my iphone is way too slow for my to be bothered posting to it directly and although I can post to my blog via the blogger app which works fine but this is also an extra step.... so in other words ....it works perfectly for flickr!!!
As a result, last year I found myself making my titles more descriptive to suit FB and hoping that my blogger followers can cope with the many many daily posts.... Can everyone cope with this?
As to what I chose to post....
I am thinking that photos of my sketches should
1. Be taken in the daylight rather than terrible lighting in my hotel room at night
2. be more USK ‘Hero’ shots– my sketch with the real thing in the background... Or at least include a bit of context (such as this photo of last nights sketch sitting on my desk at work) rather than bad copies of what I will scan when I get home. Writing up the email at the time (while writing for paint to dry) would be a great way of recording my thoughts immediately at the time (a great record of the moment for me as I always can say more than I can write in my sketchbook at the time.
Iphone vs camera... Last year at the symposium in Lisbon I ended up taking most photos (of people) with my iphone so that I could easily post at the time but then regretted I didn’t take more photos on a ‘real’ photo on my camera. Do you like seeing lots and lots of photos at the time?
So anyway... Random thoughts and interested in any comments/ suggestions.
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Here's what I have done on my last few trips Liz, with very mixed results.
ReplyDelete1. I take the photo with my iPhone camera. You are right about using daylight. Last week I posted a photo that was way too blurry because I took it too late in the day.
2. I downloaded the Photoshop Express app for iPhone and I use that to crop and brighten.
3. My blog is on Wordpress so I have that app too. I upload the corrected photo and write the post, which is not easy to do on a phone so this time I may bring the tiny bluetooth keyboard that we have for the iPad.
4. I copy the blog text and paste it into my post on Flickr when I upload the photo there. I don't post as often on Facebook as you do.
When I get home I rescan all the sketches and replace them on the blog because inevitably they are really gray looking.
I hope that helps.
Must be an iPhone4
ReplyDeleteTry ProHDR app
Use Photo Express app
Pay particular attention to getting the paper white where possible.
Hold camera/phone steady (Hint: lean elbow on something)
Tim
Yes, I found posting to Wordpress ok once I'd worked out the differing format.
ReplyDeleteI too found the pics a bit grey as Shari did.
Thinking an ipad might be easier.
Didn't get to do FB or twitter either as I usually do.
Oddly enough people still pressed the 'Like' button, but I thought the pics looked awful when I finally saw them on my Macbook.
XXErin