Automation

Two recent examples. Compare and contrast: both images are probably from a similar time, but the mechanics spell out a different tale.

Both images are probably from the same phone, both shot within a few hundred meters of each other. Both adjusted on an iPad, then uploaded from that device to the site.

The main difference is the Dollar Deal image, it includes a quick data dump display showing camera details.

The yellow roses post doesn’t have that data included in the post.

The WordPress plug-in that runs it? Available here. Tasty bit of an idea, kind of clever in its own right, as it polls a standard WordPress-uploaded image and then spits out the image’s encoded EXIF data.

Automation

Every digital image includes that EXIF, or has in the last dozen years — or more. Close to 20 years now, every digital image has embedded data. Date, time, location, hardware, settings, all of that is included and encoded into each picture.

For managing that one site, I’ve experimented with a number of different pieces of software to interact with the WordPress backside; however, the easiest is back to the OEM version: web browser.

The cute, to me, bit about the plug-in’s use, the image has to be uploaded through the WordPress interface in order for the plug-in to make the call.

That is a programming issue, and, for whatever reason, the way it works. I am not complaining.

Automation

Much earlier in that one site’s history, I was including some data, just adding it in by hand, like location, phone, and the app used to manipulate the image. It was a response to real photographers who include — looks like bragging rights about hardware — similar material.

My automation example was to serve one purpose: proof of location, and all the images are clearly from below the 30th (north) parallel.

All within the lines that define Bexar County.

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“First to arrive gets the best deal.”

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