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Editing 360 Photos & Injecting Metadata

When you upload a 360 photo or panorama, Facebook automatically processes the photo and presents it in an interactive viewer. To recognize such photos upon upload, Facebook looks for camera-specific metadata...

How to stop spam emails from Amazon third-party sellers

Our family orders something from Amazon at least once a week. Increasingly, we order items from Amazon third-party sellers, many of whom honor Amazon Prime shipping and are almost indistinguishable to the common buyer throughout the entire purchase and delivery workflow. We have very few problems with third-party sellers, but there is one major difference between buying something ...

TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it’s gone

I lost my $2,800 Apple MacBook Pro by following standard TSA security protocols at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). I look back on the series of events that led to the lost computer with incredulity...

Getting into (underwater) photography

From a natural history perspective, the underwater ecosystem is very accessible. You can have close encounters with wildlife, even with big animals...

Deep Dream / Caffe speed comps: Mac Pro vs AWS EC2 G2.2XLarge CUDA

My good friend, Dan Kitchens (of kozyndan), recently suggested that I should run Google's Deep Dream on some of my underwater video, which I thought was a fantastic idea

Interview: DJI Phantom 4 on TWiP Talks 37

This Week in Photo TWiP Talk 37: Frederick Van Johnson and I chat for 15 minutes about the new DJI Phantom 4 and what it means for consumer drones.

Thoughts about the new DJI Phantom 4 from a former DJI employee

This morning, DJI announced the Phantom 4 [pre-order from DJI], the latest in its line of best-of-breed consumer drones. The new Phantom 4 is the first shipping consumer drone to feature obstacle avoidance and subject tracking using its front-facing vision cameras. I was hoping that DJI would shake things up with a completely new design to make the Phantom easier to ...

Synchronized Sony a7r / a7s cameras

I'm cobbling together a synchronized shutter-release / timelapse controller for triggering Sony a7 series cameras, and it seems to work!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrgoedkyqc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] DJI has released a teaser video for the new product that will be announced on March 1, 2016.  I’m excited because the video suggests a change in form from the venerable Phantom. Not much is revealed, but does tease at least one additional lens-based sensor, so we can expect more sophisticated object avoidance ...