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 on?” But, you can also use it to do tedious tasks that need to be carried out repeatedly — provided it knows how. That’s why I found myself teaching Claude a skill.
(more…)Category: Photography & Imaging
Cameras, lenses, focal length, moon photography, telephotography, image generation
-
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 rather they didn’t, here’s what you can do about it.
(more…) -
Vibe Coding with Claude: A camera lens-format converter
Just as guitarists collect guitars, photographers collect the instruments used to create their art: cameras and lenses. Owning a collection comprising different kinds of cameras and lenses can get complicated though.
(more…) -
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 of moonsets with terrestrial landmarks? And, would it take into account all those phases the moon passes through each month?
This one could be complicated!
Flushed with the success of my first vibe-coding experience — a personalized app for calculating when the sun would set behind a local point of interest — my thoughts turned to an obvious extension: an analogous app for determining when the moon would set at a specific point on the horizon.
(more…) -
Vibe coding with Claude: An effective-focal-length calculator
Modern camera sensors deliver very high resolution images, often 40-60 megapixels, and sometimes even higher. So, digital zooming, that is cropping images to make the subject larger, is increasingly popular. The cropped image usually has plenty of pixels, so is still of high resolution.
(more…) -
Vibe Coding with Claude: A Solar Alignment Calculator
I recently used Claude, Anthropic’s large language model (LLM) to build a personalized app to help me plan future photographic projects. I was delighted with how it went.
(more…)