Intro To Digital Media 101

Are you new to Lightroom and don't know where to start? The first step is to import your images. But importing an image requires more than just selecting the import button. This podcast will bring you up to speed on how to import a photo, file handling, metadata, and file destination. 

In this episode Kevin R. Burkitt and Bart Lentini talk all about Lightroom, presets, plugins, and basic imaging post production. Both Kevin and Bart use Lightroom exclusively.  Bart is more of the Lightroom purist, while Kevin is more experimental with his use of plug-ins and presets. 

Jpeg, Tiff, Raw, PNG, Gif, Bmp...  The list goes on but without knowing the basics we are working in basic.   Intro to Digital Imaging is an overview of how we acquire images using DSLR and mirrorless technology.  Spend time learning about how bit rate, bit depth, sampling, quantizing, and digitizing work together to produce the images we capture every day. 

This episode of DGMD 101 is co-hosted with Bart Lentini, a freelance photographer from Red Bank, NJ.  For starters we talk ISO, Aperture and Shutter, and spend time swapping stories about what we should have, or wished to have learned, when we were starting out. 

Instructor Kevin Burkitt and Associate-Professor, Dara Courtney Evans, begin their talks about social media, how it affects their lives, and how pervasive social has become.   This conversation starts by defining what social is, goes through life with and without social, and ends on proper and healthy usage of social media.   

Cloud storage is omnipresent but have you ever thought about how to leverage online storage for digital media.   This podcast briefly discusses the concepts of cloud storage while looking into the workflow of a working photographer. 

Intro to Binary explores both base ten and base two counting along with how bit systems work.  Intro to binary is the foundational podcast for this Intro to DGMD 101 class. 

The role of the producer, consumer, and amateur play an important role in digital media.   All three contribute in their own unique way.  this podcast examines the importance of each and their role in digital media.