DC Photographers Resource

ASMP is offering a two-hour free workshop on registering your images with the copyright office. The workshop is open to ASMP members and non-members. The workshop will outline step-by-step the ASMP Best Practices for Registering Your Photographs and each participant will set up a template to make future image registration easy.
Prior to the workshop, go to https://eco.copyright.gov/eService_enu/ and set up an online account with the Copyright Office. Participants need to bring a laptop and their eCO username and password to the workshop.
This workshop is part of ASMP’s Registration ©ounts initiative. For more information, go here.
John Harrington will present this workshop.

Workshop Topics:
• The importance of copyright registration
• Common mistakes
• Step by step guide to online registration
FULL DETAILS
When:
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Doors open half an hour earlier.
Where:
Mike Morgan’s Studio, 2208 Distribution Circle
Silver Springs, MD
This workshop is FREE, but REGISTER HERE to ensure a space.

Jim Peck interviews photojournalist and DC photographer, David Burnett. I’ve been lucky enough to see David present several times at DC photographers events. David is one in a million; he always seems to find himself in the right spot, at the right time, and with the right equipment to get a unique image.

Dodge Chrome Georgetown moved on March 1st, 2010 to Palisades at 4885 MacArthur Boulevard NW, Washington DC 20007

Here’s the Announcement we got from Dodge-Chrome:

Our new location is less than 2 miles from Georgetown and this move allows us to efficiently merge the majority of our production at our state-of-the-art facility in Silver Spring.

In Palisades, we will have a customer service and a technical team to ensure you receive the same professional, knowledgeable and caring service you have relied upon for the past 28 years. We also want to reassure you that ALL services will continue, including dip & dunk film processing for E-6, C-41 and B&W.

Our New Location – Highlights

• Only 1.9 miles from Georgetown and very convenient for those clients coming from Maryland and Virginia
• Great parking – free rooftop parking and abundant on street parking
• Large reception area with photography gallery for rotating exhibitions
• Comfortable work areas with kiosks and computers
• Lounge area with WiFi – enjoy our complimentary coffee and cookies!
• On site at Palisades we will be offering machine prints, scans, inkjet prints and digital press work as well as economical copy and print services
• The Palisades location will be open 6 days a week – Monday thru Friday, 9am – 7pm and Saturdays 10am – 5:30pm

Since Chrome and Dodge combined last spring, the new company now offers the widest selection of photo and imaging services in the Mid-Atlantic – visit our website at DodgeChrome.com for a full list of services We are very excited to be making this move and we look forward to welcoming you soon to our new “home”!

Long time friend and DC Photographer, Rick McCleary, has published a book: CMYK 2.0, A cooperative Workflow for Photographers, Designers, and Printers. When I worked on standards and practices for the photography industry, I always felt it was noble work because it would make the world a more beautiful place.  If  photographers could get their images out to the world the way they were intended to be viewed, then magazines, books, and even newspapers would be more beautiful.

No one is more passionate about printing CMYK correctly than DC photographer Rick McCleary.  Rick has worked with local DC printers and prepress houses to color manage the RGB to CMYK process that photographers and designers need to use to get it printed right.   Rick is active in the DC  Photographers scene; he is a board member of ASMP-DC.

The book starts out with an overview of the problems associated with digital photography workflow and CMYK printing.  It then moves on to proposed solutions and ends with technical details of the processes involved in converting images to CMYK.  The book has nicely printed images with deep and rich blacks; showing that Rick can practice what he preaches.   I think Rick has hit the mark with this book and I hope photographers, designers, and printers use this as a reference.  I think every copy sold will make the world a more beautiful place, thanks Rick.