Just came back from teaching a couple of workshops in Colorado and Flagstaff. I used this opportunity to test out a mobile GPS tracking system. My cameras do not have built in GPS and I was looking for an easy solutions to import GPS info into the MAPS module of Lightroom.
I downloaded an app called GPStrack onto my iPhone. Turned on tracking when I left and turned it off when I got home.
GPSTrack allows you to use the GPS receiver in your iPhone or iPad to show your current location and create a log of your travels.
GPSTrack can record your location in the background, so you can continue to use your iPhone for other tasks while your location is recorded.
When recording a track, GPSTrack can show a map with your path, updated in real-time.
Saved tracks can be exported via e-mail in GPX and KML formats, useful if you want to geotag photos from a camera that doesn’t have GPS support.
This tracking went on in the background without any intervention from me…in other words, idiot proof!
Easily imported the .gpx into the MAP module in Lightroom and TA DA…all my images from that trip are pinned perfectly on the map with all the GPS coordinates, time and location. I can see the image from the exact location!
This will be a marvelous tool for scouting and planning future trips, captioning my images, and using yet another great tool in Lightroom to its fullest!
GPSTrack 2.2 can be dowloaded from itunes – the website for the developer is bafford.com/gpstrack
Suzanne is a professional freelance photographer whose work regularly appears in Arizona Highways Magazine, as well as numerous national publications such as National Geographic,Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photographer and calendars for the Nature Conservancy, Smith Southwestern and The Global Action Team.
Suzanne is a photographer, speaker, author and educator. Teaching Lightroom and Photoshop in private and group settings.
Suzanne was born and raised amidst the green rolling hills of the English countryside but is now completely at home surrounded by the arid desert and swirling sandstone of the Southwest. She finds Arizona a land of intense beauty and preposterous contradiction. Her photographs capture the diversity of waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, autumn leaves and desert sands, from the magnitude of the immense landscape to the smallest, most discreet of details.
The desert can be unforgiving of even the smallest errors, treating the unprepared harshly. But, for the few with passion, those who are willing to begin their trek at the end of the road, the secret world of the Southwest is revealed. Suzanne loves to challenge the ruggedness of the land, the great distances to be traveled, and intense weather conditions to capture images of Arizona and the Southwest that expose its many treasures and extremes.
Her images reflect her keen sense of curiosity, patience and the ability to see the world and its magic places in new and creative ways.
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