We have been looking for more ways you can participate in this community we have created. Here are a few:
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Twitter: We have a Twibe! We’re working on routing the feed from the Twibe back to our website for good visibility.
Submit pictures: Our front page has a very small gallery of on-set images. We would like it to grow! Please contact us to send images.
Survey: We have created a survey of 21 questions to gather information about our market, and we would eventually like to publish the results.
Listings: If you are a digital tech serving the Minneapolis/St. Paul area or greater Minnesota, send us your information and we will add you to our list for free!
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Meetings: Come to our occasional meetings throughout the year. If you have ideas for topics or destinations, let us know. Check the blog for updates.
I saw this on John Nack’s blog today. This is pretty incredible stuff: software that allows you to create 3D models automatically based on photographs and video.
Need to use an uncommon paper size? Most of us would just make a custom paper size in Page Setup, and that works well until you want to use that size all the time. You’ll try to go into the “Print & Fax” preference pane and see that custom paper sizes do not show up in the “Default Paper Size in Page Setup” selector.
That’s when we need to do a little digging… and hacking. These instructions are for Leopard, and will probably work in Snow Leopard, but I do not have the ability to check that. Printer settings are different in Tiger and earlier. I am not responsible for any problems.
1. Locate this file: ”/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/” … gasp for air…“Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/PaperInfo.xml”
2. Make a backup in case you screw up.
3. Make a copy on your Desktop.
4. Open the copy in TextEdit.
5. Make a new entry like the others, don’t copy from here:
6. Change the “<real>###</real>” values to suit you. The first two I didn’t touch. The next two are the dimensions inside the margins. The next two are the margins. The final two are the dimensions outside the margins. I don’t know what units these are but shown here is 5.5×8.5″ with 0.25″ margins, a.k.a. “Half Letter”.
7. Change the order if desired. I made mine second.
8. Copy back to original folder and authenticate with master password.
Benjamin Nugent is the author of “American Nerd: The Story of My People”
It’s a book on nerds that’s part history, part sociology, part reportage and part memoir. Nugent traces the history of the nerd, from the antagonists of romanticism in the 19th century to the classic Hollywood nerds of the 1970s and 80s to the “geek pride” and “nerd hipster” classes of today. He also writes movingly about his own childhood, and that of the friends with whom he played role-playing games as a middle school student.
There are 2 great meetings coming up for Minneapolis that directly effect Digi-Techs. “Who’s your Digi-Tech” is a co-organized event with ASMP and MN Digi Techs. Definetly a must see event! A capture company from each coast will explain the ins and outs of what they do alongside 3 Minneapolis techs. The format will be a panel discussion with a moderator and time for questions.
Who’s Your Digitech: Image is everything, who is handling yours?
Location: MCAD
Once upon a time you had a trusted lab to which you sent your film, and they in turn sent back your great pictures on pieces of plastic. They knew the difference between your 1/2 stop push and everyone else’s 1/2 stop push. Life was great. Then you started shooting digital and had to put clean, beautiful files (as they were called) in your client’s hands all by yourself. No sweat, you thought, you knew how to use a computer. Then you got busy, or suddenly your clients needed finished files before the set was even taken down. You tried asking your assistants to do that, but they were too busy taking down the set, or packing your gear or getting ready for the next shot. Then, right on cue, you got a call from a digital tech, and life was great again. Come find out who these folks are who are helping you focus more on making great pictures. A panel of local and national Techs will have an open ended discussion about this new, changing field and how it relates to what you as a photographer do. Kat Andrews, a Tech from Smashbox Digital in L.A. and Todd Schweikert, the V.P. of Industrial Color in New York City, the largest digital capture and post production company in the country. The panel will collectively share their experiences and allow questions from the audience.
Date/Time:
Tuesday, Nov. 17th Social Hour: 6pm to 7pm Presentation: 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Friday the 13th could be your lucky day to learn how metadata can help your business and history – and maybe win valuable software or services. Metadata guru David Riecks will share his three-hour program in three segments, including a networking break with refreshments and a raffle for prizes worth more than $2,000. This will be the last of 10 events produced by the Stock Artists Alliance Photo Metadata Project, thanks to a Digital Preservation award from the Library of Congress and help from industry partners. ASMP/Minneapolis is helping MCAD and SAA bring Riecks and his valuable presentation to the Twin Cities. As with nine previous getMETAsmart events across the county, everything is free to interested imaging professionals. Those who register in advance at www.photometadata.org will be guaranteed a seat. All who attend can join in a free raffle featuring valuable professional software and services from Adobe, Microsoft, Camera Bits, Photoshelter and liveBooks. Audiences in Dallas, San Antonio, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington learned how to use metadata to help protect copyrights, make money licensing photography, smooth workflows, track image use, find images they need and find them. In addition to sessions by meta-guru David Riecks about metadata basics, those who attended in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington also learned some of the newest techniques for search-engine optimization during presentations sponsored by Photoshelter. Learn more and register online at www.PhotoMetadata.org Thousands more have visited our growing website, PhotoMetadata.org, a tool intended as a resource the industry will value for years.
We will be having an ‘official’ social meeting of the MN Digi Techs on November 3rd at 5:30pm at Grumpy’s NE so come and get social. It a great opportunity to “talk shop” and network with other techs and industry professionals.
