Photography on chaosplay

Starting a Portrait Photography Business

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Lessons from launching a portrait photography side hustle — what worked, what didn't, and what I learned.

Photography vs Programming: a Minimalist Perspective

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Balancing a photography side hustle and a programming career through the lens of minimalism.

Photography in the age of Generative AI

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

How generative AI is changing photography and what it means for photographers.

My Photography Workflow with Lightroom, SmugMug, and iPad Pro

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:07:35 +0000

Ever since I bought iPad, I have tried to make it my main computing device. I love the form factor. I love many apps on it. I have really started to enjoy many photography apps on it. Touch screen makes a lot of sense for photo editing. Snapseed, Apple Photos, Affinity Photo are my favorite photo apps on the iPad. But it has been hard to incorporate it in my photography workflow.

So my current workflow looks like this:

My New Photography Workflow with iPad Pro and Lightroom 6

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:56:55 -0500

Update: Here is my current workflow.

Now that I have a 10.5" iPad Pro, I am trying real hard to use it as a productive machine, possibly as a main machine. Unfortunately, it has been a challenge. I almost want to return it but I really love the form factor of iPad. I am hoping that in the next few updates, it will be almost usable as a main machine.

For programming, I am in love with mosh shell. Yes this is cheating by doing real work on a VPS but it is actually an enjoyable experience.

FTP from Lightroom

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:37:20 +0000

I signed up on a few microstock sites hoping to recoup some of the cost of my camera. These sites provide FTP access for easy uploading photos. Lightroom doesn’t come with an easy way to publish or export photos to FTP site.

But Lightroom SDK comes with a free sample plugin that can export photos to an FTP site. It works really well and is very easy to install. I learned this at LightroomSolutions.com.

Lightroom & Smugmug Workflow

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:29:20 +0000

Now that I have a new fancy camera, I have tried to organize my photos better. Over the years I have collected about 70GB of photos. It seems a lot to me but apparently there are many people with well over 1000 GB of photos. The biggest challenge with so many photos is that it is hard to organize them. Upon several recommendations and some searches on the web, it seems Lightroom is the best software for organizing and managing photos.

Simba

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Pet portrait session

Aleph

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Creative photography project