CoDA is proud to announce the launch in Perth, Australia of a united, tri-continental effort: MIRA Canning Stock Route Project Archive As its name suggests in Martu Wangka, Mira literally ‘brings the hidden into the light’ by creating public access to a remarkable collection of oral histories, images, videos and cultural content.
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Sometimes when I’m batch processing thousands of photos (as I currently am for Last House on the Hill) it’s tempting to rely on Lightroom’s automatic features, which – while pretty good for a computer – aren’t always perfect. Representing color is one of the places where I definitely don’t want to cut corners, and because
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What happens when you take one instructor, two interns, and three students, and give them just four days to turn out three CoDA-certified producers, ready to bring their new skills to the field? No, this is not the premise for yet another reality show, but it does describe this past week at CoDA, as we
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We all have tips, tricks, and shortcuts in our work that makes daily life just a little bit easier. Ever wish you had known one just a bit earlier? We’re going back in time with a Tip of the Week series, “What I Wish I’d Known“, as each Monday a different staffer or intern here
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You want people to do the right thing and cite your photos on the web. Unfortunately, getting your copyright information to ‘stick’ in photos is not as easy as it should be. With Lightroom 3 and Publish Services, this is becoming a whole lot better. First the bad news. Flickr converts all files to jpegs, period.
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With the launch of Codifi’s beta version, we have accelerated the work on Last House on the Hill, its pilot project. My primary role in this has been prepping the media associated with the House Lives monograph for incorporation into the database. To get a sense of how much data this really is, the photography
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UC Semester Course (Anthropology 136E) January 19 – May 6 Instructor Michael Ashley Description A practical, hands-on overview of cutting-edge digital technology that is being used and developed for the documentation of cultural heritage – in this case includes historic and prehistoric places: standing and buried buildings, landscapes, neighborhoods – anything which is of
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