James Duncan Davidson: April 2007 Archives
One of photography's all time great tools of the trade has been the contact sheet. The first time I saw a contact sheet was the first time my grandmother helped me make one in her darkroom. I'd just developed my...
Continue reading PDF Contact Sheets as Deliverable.
In late March, Derrick interviewed Robert Leslie about shooting TED and later was able to share Robert's folder organization in Aperture. I saw this and immediately fine tuned some of my own practices when shooting big intensive events, such as...
Continue reading Planning and Sorting for Captioning.
This last week, I was busy shooting at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, along with my shooting partner, Pinar Ozger. It was a crazy busy conference and the result was 50GB of RAW image data. As you can...
Continue reading Pair Editing.
Earlier this evening, I sat in on a presentation by Robert Houser at the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco. Robert talked a lot of about the value of a personal project. In fact, for him, his personal project has...
Continue reading The Personal Project.
In the last couple of weeks, I've changed something very important about my photo library strategy. Previously, when hitting the road, I've been leaving behind my primary library and just focusing on the images I take while on the road....
Continue reading Consider Keeping Your Library With You.
