Photography & Imaging
Cameras, lenses, focal length, moon photography, telephotography, image generation
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My Humbling Experience: A Claude photo critique
Wouldn’t it be great to have your artistic efforts reviewed by someone well versed in the medium, good at explaining their thinking, and supremely objective? Even better, someone…
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AI-Assisted Learning: Claude taught me how to use a blender
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Especially in the age of AI-assisted learning. LLMs have ingested so much information, about so many topics, they…
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Claude Goes to School: Teaching an ultra-smart pupil a new skill
Most people pose one-off queries to their favorite large language model, asking questions such as “What’s the most fun you can have in Coronado, with all your clothes…
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Meta’s new AI image-generator, Muse, will use your Instagram content, unless you tell it not to
If you are an Instagram user, its owner, the social media company, Meta, has begun using your content to feed its new image-generator app, Muse. If you would…
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A camera lens-format converter
How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? Three: one to hold the ladder, one to change the bulb, and one to push the wheelbarrow…
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Vibe-coding with Claude: A Lunar Alignment Calculator
I recently built a Solar Alignment Calculator, with the (considerable) help of Claude. Could “we” pull off a similar trick, a Lunar Alignment Calculator, for predicting the alignment…
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Vibe coding with Claude: An effective-focal-length calculator
How long is yours? The focal length of your camera lens, that is. Of course, you know what it is when you take the photo. But if you…
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A Solar Alignment Calculator
Vibe coding uses natural language prompts to describe the requirements for a new application. An LLM then takes care of the coding. Here’s how I used vibe coding…