I had the good fortune to spend last week at the Santa Fe Workshops in the magical city of Santa Fe. The class I tackled was entitled: Digital Photography: From RAW Files to Archive. And, it was a DAM useful class!!
With digital photography, I find it easy to take to many photographs. I took about 5000 last year. But how do you organize these 5000 files in such a way in such a way I can find the image I need? How can I find a file for an image I took 5 years ago? This is a DAM problem!
DAM stands for Digital Asset Management, and with a nifty program called iView Media Pro, one can learn how to catalog files into useful sets, have the files ready for immediate use, and make them easy to backup and archive. The workshop instructor was Peter Krough, and he is the guru of DAM. His book, The DAM Book, is essential reading for the serious photographer. We, as photographers, have no excuse not to be organized anymore. All I need now is time to implement Peter’s DAM principles into my own digital workflow!
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