2003 Luau: Digital Cameras, Technology, and Workflow by Trent Nelson

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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2003-06-17

2003 Luau: Digital Cameras, Technology, and Workflow by Trent Nelson
By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter

Photo by Jay Drowns

Trent Nelson in action at the 2002 Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau.

Don't know a pixel from a pixie?

Or you do, but you're still trying to decide how to archive those valuable image files you're shooting with a digital camera.

At the upcoming Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau, Trent Nelson is sure to answer all your questions about digital photography in his "Digital Cameras, Technology, and Workflow" breakout session.

"Technology never stands still," Nelson says, "We know that today's software and hardware - including cameras - will be obsolete shortly. Today's technological breakthrough is likely to be tomorrow's doorstop, or worse- laughingstock.

"Think ahead. You need to build your workflow on stable ground that will be here in 100 years. If not stable ground, at least have a trailer handy so you can move it to stable ground before it's too late."

Nelson's class will feature information, tricks and tips that shooters using either Nikon or Canon cameras will find useful and important. Whether it's the "care and feeding" of that D1 or 1D to what editing software is used by working photojournalists in the field to getting those images back to the office from remote shoots, it will be overed in this 90 minute class.

The "Digital Cameras, Technology, and Workflow" class is one of 18 breakout classes offered at this year's Workshop & Luau to be held Nov. 7 - 8 at the Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel.

A couple of "quick tips" offered up by Nelson that will be covered in this course:

* Use your workflow for every assignment until it's second nature, entrenched in your mind.

* Developing good workflow habits will make you more accurate, faster, and better organized.

* Spend 20 seconds captioning your assignment today. The alternative is, a couple years later when you need those images again, you can spend several hours trying to find the old notepad that has the names and information that goes with the photos.

* It should be a criminal offense to have a photo on your hard drive that begins with the letters "DSC" or any similar nonsense.

Says Nelson, "Put my breakout session on your resume and if you don't have a job in three weeks, well, I'll be surprised. That would probably indicate your portfolio is weak."

(Trent Nelson is the chief photographer at the Salt Lake Tribune. He has previous taught at the Workshop & Luau and is the Utah News Photographer Association "Photographer of the Year".)

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