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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, September 11, 2017 / 3:30 PM, Building 8 Auditorium

photo of Peter Krogh
 Photo credit: Peter Krogh

Peter Krogh

"Store, Tag, Create - Photo Management and the Creative Process"

ABSTRACT -- The management of a photo library can be a conflicted process. Some of the requirements are inherently left-brain ones: putting your photos away, backing them up, and knowing how to find them long into the future. And some of the processes are more right-brain: deciding what pictures are about and putting them together in interesting and useful ways. This can lead to confusion, data loss and really inefficient workflow.

Peter Krogh lays out a method to make sense of these conflicting imperatives, and get control of both the structural order and creative chaos. He breaks the process into three separate layers: storing the photos, tagging them for subject matter and creating finished works. This simple approach can be used by consumers, professionals and even large institutions.

This fast-moving and engaging presentation will both enlighten and entertain, making use of many of Peter's photos from around the world and Adobe Lightroom.

SPEAKER -- Peter Krogh is a photographer, author, technologist and publisher. He's worked as a commercial and editorial photographer for 30 years, helping clients like PBS tell their stories. In 2005 Peter wrote The DAM Book, Digital Asset Management for Photographers (O'Reilly), which has cemented his reputation as a leading authority on asset management and workflow. He is a principle author and past project director for the dpBestflow.org educational website, funded by ASMP and the Library of Congress. In 2012 Peter received the Library of Congress’s NDSA Individual Innovation Award for his work helping photographers understand the digital photo ecosystem. In 2013, he created DAM Useful Publishing to release his own and other authors' books. His most recent multimedia eBook, Digitizing Your Photos presents a comprehensive method for scanning photos with a digital camera and includes 9 hours of video instruction and a 248 page book.

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