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ASMP/PDI project participant rèsumés
Meet the people who are working on the Preserving Digital Images initiative.
Richard Anderson: Project Leader
A commercial publications and advertising freelance photographer since 1976, Richard replaced analog photography with digital capture in 1999. Since then he has written and researched extensively on the digital transition, workflow strategies, and the need for digital imaging standards. Beginning in 2005, Richard coordinated the development of the Universal Photographic Digital Image Guidelines. Richard was the principle author of UPDIG and worked in conjunction with ASMP staff and volunteers to create the UPDIG website. Richard also spearheaded the successful effort to gain industry acceptance of the guidelines, which now has 20 signed members from around the world, including all of the major professional photography organizations. Richard is the former UPDIG Chair, directing the development and promotion of the guidelines. Richard has made numerous presentations of the UPDIG material, has served on numerous panel discussions, and is working with industry leaders such as Adobe to improve the digital workflow environment. Richard also serves on the ASMP National Board of Directors and is the Chair of its Digital Standards Committee.
Michael Stewart: Technical Editor
Michael is a working commercial photographer with a long history in photography education. His work includes national advertising campaigns, magazine covers, picture stories, annual reports, catalogs, a coffee-table book, and interactive websites. As an expert in the digital photography field, Michael frequently lectures on professional digital photography. He is an experienced and accomplished photographer, and is well known as an Adobe Photoshop expert. He was the president of American Society of Media Photographers’ DC Chapter, tech editor of The DAM Book, tech editor of the Universal Photographic Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG), author of the ASMP-DC Bulletin, and the author of numerous camera, scanner, and printer reviews. Michael has taught photography classes for Shepherd University and Northern Virginia Community College. He has also lectured for Apple Computer and ASMP. He is a passionate and energetic photographer who shares his knowledge and insight.
Dan Stack: Technical Subject Matter Specialist
Dan Stack attended UMBC with a dual major in film and still photography. Dan comes from a family background steeped in the film industry: His parents run Serious Grip and Electric, a major supplier to filmmakers in the Baltimore, Virginia, DC area. Dan has worked as a film grip, gaffer, shop employee and IT person for the company. While still at UMBC, Dan interned with Richard Anderson Photography as a location assistant. Beginning in 2006, Dan became a Richard’s first assistant, received training in digital workflow, and now handles most of Richard’s post-production workflow. He has a knack for quickly understanding the strengths and weakness of various digital workflow software and procedures. He also works as a digital tech with a well known fashion/magazine photographer and has worked with her on several major national advertising shoots.
Jay Kinghorn: Principal Presenter of the UPDIG Educational Seminars
An Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert and an Olympus Visionary photographer, Jay Kinghorn draws on his background as an assignment and fine-art photographer to develop training programs that fulfill the essential needs of photographers, graphic designers and imaging professionals. Very approachable, Jay’s comfortable and efficient training style makes him one of the most sought-after digital imaging specialists in the western United States.
Jay’s first book, Perfect Digital Photography co-authored with Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jay Dickman, was received with acclaim. One reviewer wrote “Perfect Digital Photography truly does live up to its name and is the best book on the subject.” In 2005, Jay was the lead presenter for Digital Days, an eighteen-city workshop tour sponsored by Sony, Adobe, Albums Inc., American Photo and Popular Photography Magazine. He continues to lecture and present for the Utah Chapter of the International Professional Photographers Association, the IPSW, and ASMP Colorado. Jay is also the Photoshop guru for the First Light Workshop series, a four-day, intensive digital photojournalism workshop held in Oban, Scotland and Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. Jay’s corporate clients include the Rocky Mountain News, Vail Resorts and Memory Makers Magazine.
Last year, Jay helped the Rocky Mountain News bring digital imaging into the photo department; he assisted with testing equipment, hiring new staff, and the creation of a new RGB-to-CMYK workflow. Jay continues to work closely with the Rocky Mountain News to streamline its digital imaging workflow and to refine the photographers’ and imagers’ prowess in Photoshop.
Greg Smith: UPDIG Editor
Greg Smith is a photographer, writer and editor living in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. From his bug-infested base for the past two decades, he has found ways to stay abreast of technology and work with several national and international photography and imaging groups. He was a copy editor for versions 1 and 3 of the UPDIG guidelines, and he helped edit both the glossary and media matrix for the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS). Greg is business practices committee chair for the National Press Photographers Association, vice president of ASMP/South Carolina and a part-time administrator for the Stock Artists Alliance. He returned to Ohio University in spring 2007 to complete work on a long-moldering master’s degree in visual communications, and he is producing a multimedia thesis about the salt marsh where he lives.
A Maryland native, Greg holds a cum laude bachelor of science of journalism from Ohio University and began his career as a news photographer in the Midwest. He later became a copy editor and managing editor for several publications, including three he helped launch. Before striking out on his own in 1995, Greg spent five years with a national public relations firm, writing and photographing case-history articles about technology for clients including Kodak, Hewlett Packard, 3M and Motorola. He is co-author of Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way, published in 2003 by University of North Carolina Press. Greg’s pictures and articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world. And he markets his wildlife and landscape pictures as fine art and stock photography.
Peter Krogh: Technical Subject Matter Expert
Peter Krogh, author of The DAM Book (O’Reilly, 2005) is one of the world’s leading authorities on digital asset management for photographers. His book is now in its 5th printing and is published in two languages (English and German). His areas of expertise include file formats, metadata, storage media, workflow and backup practices. He is a regular advisor to Adobe and Microsoft on software development for imaging and asset management, and both companies frequently hire him to translate complex engineering principles into language that the ordinary photographer can understand. In the last 24 months, Peter has presented to photographers in more than 60 cities worldwide, including more than 7 countries on 3 continents.
Peter runs a 25 year-old photography business, providing photographs to clients worldwide. Clients include PBS, Fannie Mae, National Geographic and Smithsonian magazine. Under the banner of DAM Useful, Peter also writes and produces instructional videos for photographers and photo librarians. He co-writes and publishes software plug-ins for Adobe Bridge. He is on the board of directors of ASMP and was the founder of ASMP’s Digital Standards and Practices Committee.
Susan Carr: Educational Seminar Coordinator
Susan is a architectural and fine-art photographer dedicated to the advancement and advocacy of photography through education, artistic expression, professional community development, and cultivating industry rights and standards. She has more than five years of experience in the leadership of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). As an ASMP National Board Member and two-term ASMP National President, Susan was responsible for leadership and strategic planning, operational oversight, educational development, membership development, and project management. Susan also was instrumental in ASMP initiatives that led to community and industry collaboration and played key role in establishing new industry-wide digital standards. She organized the initial inter-association meeting on digital standards that led to the development of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines. The guidelines are becoming the industry-accepted standards and have helped photographers control the final quality of their work.
Susan was selected by the ASMP/PDI team to administer the educational seminars because of her experience with the “It’s Your Business” seminar series, where she proposed, designed and implemented traveling educational seminars designed for the professional photographer. Each program appears in ten cities per academic year.
Peter Dyson: Technical Subject Matter Specialist and Website Production
Peter Dyson is ASMP’s Director of Communications, providing editorial content and technical support for the Society’s web sites and publications. Before joining ASMP in 2004, he was the editor of The Seybold Report, a newsletter for the printing and prepress industry. In that role, he did research and consulting on technical issues, wrote detailed competitive analyses of prepress systems, and chronicled the extended transition of the prepress trades from hot metal to desktop publishing to laser platesetters. He also served as Seybold’s webmaster. He came to Seybold after a stint as the in-plant printer for a nonprofit organization in the Midwest.
Ken Fleisher: Expert Technical Subject Matter Specialist
Ken Fleisher is a graduate of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology. Ken has been working in photography and digital imaging for more than 15 years and has accumulated a wide range of skills during that time. As a consultant, he has helped photographers transition from a traditional film workflow to a digital workflow, has provided color management services, and has performed many prepress and imaging tasks. His client list includes such prestigious companies as Discovery Communications, Inc., Lockheed Martin, and Giorgio Beverly Hills.
Ken is currently employed as a photographer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. He is a member of ImageMuse, a discussion group of museum imaging and publishing professionals dedicated to defining guidelines for the use of digital files for reproduction. ImageMuse participants are working together to write shared guidelines for preparing and handling digital files for reproduction. The ImageMuse goal is wide adoption of these guidelines by museum publications and imaging departments and printing vendors. ImageMuse hopes to reduce the level of effort for publication proofs and elevate image quality. The working group includes the imaging and publishing entities of 20 prominent international museums. The results are incorporated into the fall 2007 UPDIG Digital Imaging Submission Guide.
Eugene Mopsik: ASMP Executive Director, Industry Liaison and Fundraiser
Victor Perlman: ASMP General Counsel
Victor Perlman has served as General Counsel to the American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. (ASMP) since 1995. He has also served on the Boards of Directors of the Media Photographers Copyright Agency, Inc., the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), and the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Mr. Perlman has frequently appeared as an author in various publications, including Communication Arts and Popular Photography, and he has taught numerous Continuing Legal Education seminars. He is the co-author of Licensing Photography (Allworth Press, 2006). He has testified in Congressional hearings and in proceedings held by the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has filed amicus curiae briefs in landmark cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal appellate courts. He frequently lectures on issues related to copyright law and other issues relating to photography. Mr. Perlman received his bachelor’s degree in English from Franklin & Marshall College in 1967 and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. Before entering private practice, he served as law clerk to the Honorable D. Donald Jamieson, then President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.