Create low-tech checklists to guide you through your high-tech digital workflows. If you haven’t done so already, you can’t imagine the benefits. Simple, personalized workflow checklists will help you perform your workflow tasks faster and smoother; turn critical work into monkey work; and help illuminate (and solve) workflow glitches as they arise.
If you are shooting and processing hundreds of RAW files (or JPEGs) you have probably scribbled down a lot of notes regarding your workflow actions–from ingestion to archiving. But if you have not made a formalized checklist—I repeat—you cannot imagine the benefits. Such checklists are simple documents you create in Word (or Excel) that outline your individual process, with check boxes included to ensure work interruptions don’t compromise your process.
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Here are the four critical things you need know about the DNG, the Adobe-developed, open-source Digital Negative:
1. The DNG is the coolest RAW electronic imaging file format on Earth.
2. The DNG is absolutely the best archival format for all your RAW files.
3. The DNG offers amazingly innovative workflow benefits.
4. You should embrace the Digital Negative by converting all of your RAW captures to DNGs as part of your normal workflow.
Like many elegantly simple and powerful inventions, the DNG is sadly misunderstood. And because the majority of photographers are not yet using the DNG and not yet
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Tags: Digital Negative, DNG, DNG Converter, Peter Krogh, RAW, The DAM Book
As far as I can tell, the only clear thing separating so-called digital photography experts and the rest of us photographers is the word “expert.” I’ve met helpful photographers with a mind-blowing amount of experience and knowledge who refuse to call themselves experts. On the other hand, I’ve bumped into a few self-proclaimed experts who could use a lesson or two on some basic aspects of the craft.
While I’m the host of ACMetaforum, I definitely do not consider myself a digital photography expert. At the same time, I have been lucky enough to learn quite a bit of information about a few areas of electronic imaging from some photographers who definitely deserve to be called experts. And all of these experts have digital knowledge blind spots.
This brings us to the interesting reality that digital photography—with its myriad, constantly evolving tools—has totally changed Continue reading “What IS a Digital Photography Expert?”
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