I’m always looking for photographic inspiration but there isn’t one site that collects together information on the subject. Shutterscouts aims to be that site. Here are some questions I’d like shutterscouts to answer:
- What wildlife / plants is this a good time of the year for?
- What’s near here to take photos of?
- Where can I take good pictures of rabbits (or whatever)?
- Where’s a good place to take sunset pictures (and when?)
So it’s basically something like a Google Maps mashup, with geographical data (sunset/sunrise times and directions, tidal data, weather, etc) and some user-generated articles about locations and subjects. Rather than replicating Flickr and Panoramio, it will pull in appropriate photos from these sites and supplement them with the user-contributed articles and data. Anyway, that’s the plan. More details to come.
Currently I just have a placeholder page up but I'm actively developing the site and hope to quietly open the doors in August. You can leave feedback/suggestions here.
2 comments:
I love this Idea but I have a couple of questions/ suggestions about how it'll all work.You've probably thought about all of these but here goes.
I assume there will be photos associated with the locations. Are you going to host these photos yourself or are you going to link through from Flickr, smugmug etc. If you host these photos yourself the site will get really big really fast.
Will you apply sunrise sunset times at the loactions based on the time stamp on the EXIF data, or tide times based on the proximity to the coast etc. Will you be autopopulating fields based on EXIF data imbedded in the photos.
Last but not least when are you launching in Beta because I would be ery eager to try it out and contribute photos and locations.
'Eager' is good :-) At least there'll be 2 of us to contribute!
Mostly images will just be pulled in from Flickr etc but I'll host one or two images per location. Initially I'll probably host them on my server and then to Amazon S3 as/when/if I need. Shutter Scouts is about the locations so the photos shouldn't be huge originals (there's Flickr for showing them off!)
If it exists, I'm hoping to extract location information from the EXIF headers and/or Flickr metadata. Otherwise it will have to be set manually on the map. I'll calculate the sunrise/set times based on the longitude/latitude coordinates. Tidal data is still hard to come by but definitely on my desired features. Not sure what else I might do with the EXIF data.
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