Oct 29 2009

Richard Anderson In Person

Category: AfterCapture & Rangefinder Articles, Books, PhotographersEthan 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.

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Jun 10 2008

Digital Photography Review’s Glossary Kicks Butt!

Category: Online Resources, Technology InsightsEthan G. Salwen @ 8:29 am

ACMF_080610_Glossary_1_DPRpng“It’s the little things.” This line from the movie Galaxy Quest—said with warm fondness—sums up my reaction to the Glossary page found on the Digital Photography Review website. Lot’s of terms. Good definitions. Way cool graphics.

Just as writers need dictionaries and thesauruses, image makers need good resources for the terms related to the evolving art and science of electronic imaging. This is especially true because new terms arise, old ones change, and some are just so darn confusing that we need to read different definitions from different sources.

While the chances are good you know exactly what a histogram is, maybe you could use a little clarification on the differences among “Pixels,” “Pixel Density,” and

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May 05 2008

Dig This! UPDIG Offers THE Answers

Category: Online ResourcesEthan G. Salwen @ 8:45 am

ACMF_080505_image_updig1We’ve all accepted that working with the digital photography medium is a process of constant learning. Still, wouldn’t it be nice if there were one place we could go to find all the answers to all our digital imaging questions? Well there is. It’s a wonderful place called UPDIG.

The Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG) are a set of very concise and well informed guidelines related to the full scope of digital imaging practices. Just a few of the topics covered include color management, monitor calibration, file formats, naming conventions, resolution, sharpening, file delivery and workflow. And there’s much, much more.

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