Oct 29 2009

Richard Anderson In Person

Category: AC Articles, Books, Photographers, ResourcesEthan G. Salwen @ 10:43 am
No, this is not Richard Anderson, but it is one of his images.

No, this is not Richard Anderson. But it is one of his images.

Photographer, digital standards expert and photography community activist Richard Anderson is incredibly mild mannered — definitely easy to miss in the massive crowds of PhotoPlus Expo, but definitely worth tracking down to see face-to-face. That’s what I did last Thursday, borrowing a cell phone from Judy Herrmann (Thanks, Judy. My cheap, three-year-old Argentine cell phone is no iPhone), and meeting up with Anderson to shoot the breeze in person, which we hadn’t done in two years.

I talk to Anderson fairly often, as he is always incredibly generous with his time and knowledge, and he provides me information to improve my reporting, and also acts as a sounding board on the issues most important to cover.

As the driving force behind dpBestflow.org, the co-author of Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook and the princial author of UPDIG, Anderson knows a heck of lot about all things related to the broad, critical topic of digital best practices — from in-camera exposure to final file hand-off.

The thing is, such a statement makes Anderson sound like Continue reading “Richard Anderson In Person”

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Oct 26 2009

A Not Recap of the PhotoPlus Orgy

Category: Creative Process, Resources, The Industry, ViewpointEthan G. Salwen @ 10:06 am

AC_Blog_PPE_CrowdThe PhotoPlus Expo officially ended on Saturday, but my experience didn’t come to an end until yesterday, with my visit to the studio of commercial photographer Andrew Matusik. My PPE experience was less frantic and more fantastic than I had anticipated.

I think this was simply because I did myself a favor and realized — before the madness began — that I should focus on quality over quantity. So my personal mantra was, “If you learn just one thing today and connect with just one person, this will be a success.” And a success it was.

I won’t try to recap my whole PPE experience — way, way too much to share — but I will give you a taste by simply listing some of the people and ideas that came my way:

The best part of PPE was spending real quality time — and enjoying good eats — with photographers I already knew, including Gail Mooney, Tom Kelly, Richard Anderson Continue reading “A Not Recap of the PhotoPlus Orgy”

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Oct 20 2009

The Orgy Called PhotoPlus Expo

Category: Resources, ViewpointEthan G. Salwen @ 5:03 pm

AC_Blog_PPESo I made it here to New York City yesterday, and I’m ready for the fun that begins tomorrow. Officially it’s called PDN PhotoPlus Expo, and officially it begins on Thursday. But tomorrow I’m doing some of that networking stuff that happens in such excess around the fringes of the excessive event itself, usually referred to as PhotoPlus or simply PPE.

PPE bills itself as the “Most Important Event in Photography,” so you can imagine why I’m interested in attending, although for me, it’s less about what goes on as who attends, which leads to the great networking, which is why for me the event really starts tomorrow. That’s when I’m getting together with Gail Mooney, photographer and filmmaker. She’s giving a presentation on Thursday morning with Paula Learner on getting started in video.

However one marks the start of PPE, once it starts most people feel like they are on a rollercoaster Continue reading “The Orgy Called PhotoPlus Expo”

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Oct 16 2009

The Pain of Migrating

Category: ViewpointEthan G. Salwen @ 7:39 pm
Sheets and sheets of paper were needed to track text, image and link migration.

I used sheets and sheets of paper to track text, image and link migration. So un-Web 2.0.

Where have you been? What’s up with your blog? Um, could we get some new freakin’ posts!?

This is the spirit of comments and emails I have been receiving about this blog, and I can understand why. I have committed a major blogging sin by letting this AfterCapture blog seem to fall into disrepair, allowing you to think — gasp! — that it might have even met an untimely death.

Not good. Not good at all.

Luckily, the Blogosphere is a forgiving place, and the best way Continue reading “The Pain of Migrating”

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