The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has recently done the entire professional photographic community a service by launching their new “Strictly Business” blog. As the site states:
Jul 14 2009
Introducing Strictly Business!
Jul 09 2009
Learning Strategies for Video Tutorials
At the start of his Photoshop CS4 training video series on Lynda.com, Chris Orwig makes a savvy pedagogical move by suggesting some critical, if basic (and underappreciated) tips on note taking while engaged in video learning. These are great, as we all know how easy is it to watch a training video, say “Ah ha!,” and then quickly forget what had us saying “Ah ha!”
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Jul 06 2009
Leaning Forward into Storytelling
Photographers are storytellers. Storytelling is about creating change. Visual storytelling requires creating visual change in a way that advances a story. (This I just picked up from Norman Hollyn, but we’ll get to him in a second.) Let me go on. . .
In moviemaking, something called a “logline” is used to describe a scene in a way that allows the moviemaker to focus on how to best tell the story of that scene in relation to the overall movie (which, it turns out, can also be defined by a logline).
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Jul 02 2009
Lightroom Data Practices Revealed
“It is critical to understand that Lightroom will always take its own database to be correct,” says Victoria Bampton, raw processing guru and self-dubbed “Lightroom Queen.” (And rightly so!) In case you’re not clear, Bampton is talking about the fact that when working with images in a LR catalog, LR will always refer to the most recent changes that were made in LR, even you worked on images more recently in another program.
Huh?
What this means is that if you update any metadata — from keywords to develop settings – in any other program besides LR (such as Adobe Bridge or Adobe Camera Raw), LR will not be aware of those changes. Considering that many of use do use multiple programs to work with our image, you can see how we could quickly end up with a very big mess.