Welcome to the WAPDAM Blog - Start Here
Hello students of the Western Academy's Professional Photography program! My name is Josh McCulloch, and I'll be instructing your Digital Asset Management class. Check out my website to learn a bit more about me and the work I do. Hit the link below for the rest of this post...
To say I'm excited about teaching this course would be an understatement, partly because I'm a geek and really get stoked on stuff like this, and partly because it is such an important part of being a working photographer these days, and I would have loved to have learned how to manage my files properly back when I first went digital in 2001. My buddy Chad and I were the first Western students ever to switch to digital, we were so pumped to be sporting our new 5.47MP Nikon D1X's, scoffing at those suckers still paying for film! Of course, we didn't bother to tell them our cameras cost almost $7k for the body alone, and that we spent more time developing our images than they did because we had no clue how to work with so many images at once on a computer... So here I will be sharing what I have learned since then, and things have certainly changed. But that'll have to wait until the course starts.
When I was first approached by the school to teach this course, I pretty much knew I a) wanted to teach it, and b) wanted to have a corresponding blog to go along with the course. I am going to pack so much information into your heads in four classes that this blog will become the hub for all things related to the course. I'll be posting re-caps of classes and assignment details, answering your questions, posting various links of interest, etc.
While I would hope all of you are familiar with what blogs are and how they work, some of you may not be. Check out this post and video on my main blog to learn more about blogs, RSS, etc. Understanding what blogs are and how to use them will make this blog more valuable to you as we progress through the course. If you still have questions, place a comment at the bottom of this post and I will comment back to answer you as best as possible. As this blog will be your access to me throughout the DAM course, you will (hopefully) be posting lots of questions for me to answer, so you might as well get started!
On a related note, I would appreciate you signing your name to each comment, either by adding it to the bottom of your comment if you are not logged in to a blog account (first name & last initial is fine), or better yet, by signing in to your account to comment.
If you'll look to the right of this page (and any other page in this blog), you'll see I've added a bunch of links for your reference. These relate to the software we'll be using, different forums and support groups related to DAM and DAM software, as well as industry trade groups related to DAM. Check them out, there is lots of great information there for you.
I'm sure you hear this from most, if not all of your instructors, but you will only get out what you put in to this course. I want to see all of you succeed in your careers as professional photographers, and guess what? Properly managing your digital assets is a key component to making that happen. You either need to learn it (and learn it WELL) and then implement it, or hire someone to do it for you. And I'm guessing right now not many of you have the budget to do that (and neither do I).
The days of being "Just a Photographer" are gone. Today, you need to be your IT department, your Digital Asset Management department, your marketing department, your legal department (along with a good attorney), your bookkeeping department (along with a good accountant), and more. I'm looking forward to helping you get your DAM department off the ground.
Cheers, Josh
Copyright © 2010 Josh McCulloch.
To say I'm excited about teaching this course would be an understatement, partly because I'm a geek and really get stoked on stuff like this, and partly because it is such an important part of being a working photographer these days, and I would have loved to have learned how to manage my files properly back when I first went digital in 2001. My buddy Chad and I were the first Western students ever to switch to digital, we were so pumped to be sporting our new 5.47MP Nikon D1X's, scoffing at those suckers still paying for film! Of course, we didn't bother to tell them our cameras cost almost $7k for the body alone, and that we spent more time developing our images than they did because we had no clue how to work with so many images at once on a computer... So here I will be sharing what I have learned since then, and things have certainly changed. But that'll have to wait until the course starts.
When I was first approached by the school to teach this course, I pretty much knew I a) wanted to teach it, and b) wanted to have a corresponding blog to go along with the course. I am going to pack so much information into your heads in four classes that this blog will become the hub for all things related to the course. I'll be posting re-caps of classes and assignment details, answering your questions, posting various links of interest, etc.
While I would hope all of you are familiar with what blogs are and how they work, some of you may not be. Check out this post and video on my main blog to learn more about blogs, RSS, etc. Understanding what blogs are and how to use them will make this blog more valuable to you as we progress through the course. If you still have questions, place a comment at the bottom of this post and I will comment back to answer you as best as possible. As this blog will be your access to me throughout the DAM course, you will (hopefully) be posting lots of questions for me to answer, so you might as well get started!
On a related note, I would appreciate you signing your name to each comment, either by adding it to the bottom of your comment if you are not logged in to a blog account (first name & last initial is fine), or better yet, by signing in to your account to comment.
If you'll look to the right of this page (and any other page in this blog), you'll see I've added a bunch of links for your reference. These relate to the software we'll be using, different forums and support groups related to DAM and DAM software, as well as industry trade groups related to DAM. Check them out, there is lots of great information there for you.
I'm sure you hear this from most, if not all of your instructors, but you will only get out what you put in to this course. I want to see all of you succeed in your careers as professional photographers, and guess what? Properly managing your digital assets is a key component to making that happen. You either need to learn it (and learn it WELL) and then implement it, or hire someone to do it for you. And I'm guessing right now not many of you have the budget to do that (and neither do I).
The days of being "Just a Photographer" are gone. Today, you need to be your IT department, your Digital Asset Management department, your marketing department, your legal department (along with a good attorney), your bookkeeping department (along with a good accountant), and more. I'm looking forward to helping you get your DAM department off the ground.
Cheers, Josh
Copyright © 2010 Josh McCulloch.
posted by Josh McCulloch at
10:01 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Josh,
I'm using Image Ingester and it seems to work, however, it doesn't show my metadata. Here's what I've done to problem solve... upgraded my software (Bridge and ACR), redone my metadata fields, photographer, content, and rights, purged cache for selection, and Ingested twice but still nothing.
Any suggestions?
Natacha
Natacha,
I'll need some more info - are there XMP files in the folder alongside your RAW files? If so, can you e-mail me one of them? Also, can you open up the IIPro log for me (found in the Tools>View Log menu), copy it into a text document and also e-mail it to me?
Does the metadata show up in Bridge, Photoshop or Lightroom?
Cheers, Josh
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