Process
From camera to collection
Every photograph here goes through the same hands-on process, from the card in the camera to the page you’re looking at.
- Shot in RAW
- The R100 records full raw files, so there’s room to bring back highlights and shadows. My iPhone tags each frame with its location over Bluetooth.
- PhoneDrop, a tool I built
- When a shot starts on my iPhone, PhoneDrop, a small custom tool of mine, sends it from the share sheet straight to my workstation over a private connection. No cables, no emailing files to myself, no third-party cloud in between.
- Developed in darktable
- I develop every frame by hand in darktable, an open-source raw editor, on my own GPU-equipped Linux workstation. Exposure, color, and crop are my calls.
- AI as a second set of eyes
- An AI assistant helps me sort a full card: it suggests titles, which collection a frame belongs in, and where near-duplicates are. It doesn’t edit or generate anything. The final picks are mine.
- Photos on my Mac, for the iPhone side
- My Apple Photos library holds my iPhone shots and older archive. Camera work stays on the Linux workstation, unless I’m in the field and need to work on a shoot from the MacBook.
- Published here
- The collections on this site run on a gallery app I built myself, and the originals keep their camera and location details.
Real photographs, developed by a person. The software just keeps the process quick.