RITphoto News: Workshop a Big Success

RITphoto’s Optimizing Digital Outcomes Workshop a Big Success

January 10, 11, and 12, Nitin Sampat and Michael Peres hosted ten members of the Smithsonian Museums digitizing department for a three days hands-on immersion into using new technology . The focus on the seminar was to improve imaging outcomes for the various Museums within the Smithsonian. There are nearly 54 million artiacts in the Museum’s collections.

The workshop was designed specifically for their staff and included a number of hands-on introductions exploring the entire imaging chain from capture to output. Sampat, an international expert in imaging systems, led a number of a hands-on exercises and lectures using state-of-the-art imaging equipment and systems  assessing methods used for optimizing image formation, capture, profiling and output. The attendees, learned both the theory and practice of digital imaging from a “how things work” perspective and had a technical orientation to important electronic imaging components ranging from cameras, monitors, printers, light and color instruments, and image processing algorithms. Many shared Nitin’s insights into monitor and printer technologies was going to greatly help day to day workflow.

During each day informative lectures were followed by hands-on labs where participants put theory into practice while being exposed to a variety of imaging hardware and software. Morning Sessions in class room style without computers. Afternoon Sessions were spent in the School’s various studios and computer labs.

Pictured below are RITphoto alums Walter Larrimore(left) and Mark Gulezian. Both Mark and Walter were students at RIT in the late 1970’s.