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How to Fall Down. You might not think tripping and falling a few feet would do a whole lot of damage, but you’d be dead wrong. Falling injuries are the most common cause of injury- related emergency room visits, with nearly 8 million cases happening every year. These types of tumbles are usually associated with older folks, but a fall at any age can be dangerous—especially if you hit your head. It doesn’t take much to get a concussion, which can cause brain damage, confusion, intense headaches, vertigo, vision loss, memory loss, and trouble focusing. You could die from smacking your head too, even if it seems like a fairly soft blow. You could get a subdural hematoma, a life- threatening condition where your brain basically bleeds and builds up your intracranial pressure. It’s hard to detect without getting a CAT scan, and symptoms can be subtle. So, you’re falling. What do you do? According to Dr. Jessica Schwartz, a physical therapist who specializes in training athletes and people with prosthetic limbs to fall without hurting themselves, you need to focus on protecting your head. When you feel yourself start to lose your balance: Pivot so you’re not falling directly forward or backwards if possible. Fall to your side. Tuck your chin in to protect your head. Don’t fall onto outstretched hands. You’ll probably break your wrists and still may hit your head anyway. Place your arms to your side to help cushion your fall and protect your hip, or throw your arms up to cushion your head with your biceps, depending on the fall trajectory. Bend your knees and try not to fight the fall. Do what paratroopers are trained to do and roll with it, allowing yourself to go slightly limp and shift body weight to spread out and absorb the impact. Try to land on your thigh, buttocks, and shoulder. Don’t ever fall onto your knees since you can easily bust your kneecaps. Here’s a helpful video demonstration from News Satellite by Elliott Royce, a 9. It’s imperative senior learn these safe falling basics, but it’s good knowledge for anyone to have in their back pocket. Just because you haven’t fallen before doesn’t mean it won’t happen to you eventually—and it only takes one nasty spill. If you do hit your head, don’t hesitate to seek medical attention. Even a mild concussion can have serious ramifications. If you see someone else fall and hit their head, insist they seek out medical attention. They may say they feel fine, but it’s always better to be safe than sorry when it comes to head injuries. I am looking for a good DAM: Digital Asset Management software. What options are there to manage a library of photographs? DAM is short for Digital Asset Management. It usually refers to a software used to manage various digital files. In the photography world it usually refers to an application to manage the thousands or hundreds of thousands of image files that a photographer accumulates. You can’t just store them on a disk and hope to find them when you need them… Here are my requirements on what a DAM should do (for me), plus some comments on current DAM vendors. I am an independent photographer mainly selling my photography in three ways: Through photo agencies (I send my images to agencies who then license them to customers)Directly to customers who I am myself in contact with. Through my own on- line photo library “store- front” base on Photoshelter. A sign at a winery pointing the way to Self Service shopping. A discussion with David Riecks, the creator of the Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalogue (CVKC) and a great metadata advocate and guru, prompted my to formulate what I need and expect from a DAM solution. Thanks David!). Here it is. DAM REQUIREMENTSMy requirements of a Digital Asset Management software solution: – Single user = I’m an independent photographer. Aren’t there many of us out there)– Stand- alone desktop application on Windows (I don’t want to rely on a sometimes not perfect internet connection)– Archiving of raw files (Canon cr. Don’t currently use DNG. Jpeg too of course. Capability for video files would be a plus but not absolutely necessary. No other file types. (So, this is pretty standard stuff)– Currently 1. Currently split on two RAW/originals catalogues and one Develops catalogue in Portfolio)– Files stored on a network (NAS) file server, so the sw needs to be able to work over a network. DAM FUNCTIONALITIES: Dom Ruinart writing in a book with a bird quill feather pen at Champagne Ruinart. Must: keywording and captioning (“description”) – this is the key to the whole application! Must: embedding metadata in files. Must: possibility to create “custom fields”. Must: possibility to create “virtual galleries” or “temporary sets” (what is called “categories” in Portfolio)5 — Must: virtual galleries can be hierarchical. Nice to Have: “Folder watching” – the app can detect changes on monitored folders. Must: possibility to apply keywords and captioning to multiple files at the same time. Must: possibility to append data (as opposed to overwrite) to captioning (“description”) field. And of course: 9 – Must: it is a cataloguing application, with a database, not just a file browser (not even a pimped- up and glorified file browser). This is both for speed and security reasons. One note on Custom Fields: Custom Fields are important. For example, I use custom fields: For the (non- standard) three levels of description that Alamy (a stock agency) requires. To keep track of where in my workflow an image is: not started, processing, done… or where in the my kewywording process it is. What the status is of an image with an agency: not submitted, submitted, accepted, rejected…For raw files: what shoot the image is from (I do not embed metadata in raw files)etc. I do not need: — support for hierarchical keywords (I use that as a tool separate from the DAM when choosing which keywords to apply, but find it too rigid to have it integrated in the DAM itself.)— presentation, slide- show, contact sheet, or web- gallery- type functionalities. I definitely don’t want: image editing capabilities in the DAM. This is a point where many DAM software reviewers go wrong. They think it is nice to have image editing functions included in the digital asset management application. It is not. Image editing is done with specialised software, like Photoshop. You don’t need the DAM to do the same thing, only worse… Perhaps it is useful for non- professional but as a photographer you’re not going to use the DAM to do image editing. At least not me.)“My” DAM is primarily used to: a) apply keywords and captions and other metadata,b) embed metadata andc) search for files. The background is, as mentioned, that I am an independent photographer that works with stock agencies (yes, they still exist). I need the DAM to organise my files myself and to prepare files with embedded metadata to send to the stock libraries I work with. Wine books in a wine library in a wine cellar. DAM WORKFLOWThe key, for me, to a good DAM tool is that it makes it very fast and easy to keyword and caption fairly large batches of images. This is (very simplified) my DAM workflow. Raws are catalogued in an “originals” catalogue. Selected raw images are processed into selected production images which are catalogued as “develops”Develops are then keyworded and captioned, and if relevant sent to agencies. The keywording and captioning is done in batches: Groups of images from the same shoot is keyworded/captioned, e. Turkey. This can be anything between a few hundred to a few thousand images that I go through together, usually groups per shoot / project. I go through “the batch” and sort the images in groups and sub- groups. This is done in several groups / dimensions: geographical, thematic, conceptual etc etc. This sorting is similar to the sorting in a controlled vocabulary, but not so rigid. For example (much simplified), and image might be sorted in. Turkey > Gallipoli Peninsula > Gali Winery, and. Winery > vinification > fermentation tanks. Architecture > Buildings > underground cellar. This process is actually very time consuming but key to the whole keywording. This is where I use the “hierarchical virtual sets” or in Extensis Portfolio terminology “categories” (one issue with Portfolio is that this functionality is not very stable). I then apply keywords and captions to groups of images in these virtual galleries. In many cases I add additional keywords, and caption information, to individual images. One of my challenges is that I work with – apparently – relatively large number of files. Thousands of bottles stored in a champagne cellar with a chalk board label. DAM VENDORSMost of the above can be done in Extensis Portfolio and Phase One Media Pro (previously i. View Media Pro, then sold to Microsoft where it languished as Expression Media, then sold to Phase One). They are actually *very* similar in functionality but Portfolio has one (in my workflow) huge advantage: you can drag- and- drop keywords from a word file on to files in the DAM. So I can make a list of keywords in Word and the drop them onto the files. A huge time saver actually. PORTFOLIO: It’s what I use. It does pretty much all of the above. It is old and clunky and it’s probably a dead software (the stand- alone version) by now (four years (?) since the latest update?). But it still works pretty well. But you can’t stay on a dead sw forever. Extensis Portfolio Stand- alone. MEDIA PRO: Similar, as mentioned. I find it more complicated to work with. Perhaps it is just a matter of habit. I find their UI design not very good. And it lacks the drag- and- drop feature mentioned above, which is a big minus! I had great hopes when it was acquired by Phase One. I am a HUGE fan of their raw processing tool Capture One. Great product.) But they have so far not done much with Media Pro. I have not at all any indication that they will ditch it though, so I still have hope. Phase One Media Pro. DAMINION: Brand new on the scene. Just started to look at it. Looks interesting but a quick look seems to indicate that it lacks some of the must- have functions above. I am also not keen on their attitude towards embedded metadata (“we prefer sidecar files; embedding metadata is slow”). I think embedded metadata is important. The fact that it is actually free (!) for single users won’t really compensate if it lacks some of the important features. Daminion Photo Management. CANTO CUMULUS: Have not looked at it although it is sometimes recommended. And it is pretty expensive…. I think) That’s maybe why I haven’t really looked at it. It seems more like a “corporate” software. Canto Cumulus. FOTOWARE FOTOSTATION: Have not looked at the functionality of that either, but I believe it is an option. But far too expensive ($6. Curious to note that it comes from Norway! Fotoware Fotostation IDIMAGER: Used to look like an interesting option but it has been axed by the developer.
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