Friday, January 18, 2019

Extensis Portfolio

If you value your digital assetts a word of warning. Beware of Extensis Portfolio  owned by Celartem, Inc . president Syuichi Fujimoto . Here’s a little story for you...... Back in the days when digital photography was just getting started you had to figure out a way to organize and catalog your images (DAM) Digital Assett Management. They're where a ton of programs out there Iview Media,Cumulus, IDimager Photo Supreme and Daminion.  Extensis Portfolio  for
me stood out to be the best. I started out with Extensis Portfolio 7  in 2004, then 8 then 8.5 in 2007. Then BAM in 2014 Extensis stopped all support and upgrades to the program. It won’t run on a Mac running anything newer then OSX 10.9.4. I have an old Mac Pro  that I haven’t upgraded just to keep my catalog so I can search my images. I just checked it’s 43.5 terabytes of images. They’ve even stopped taking technical support calls about Extensis Portfolio  8.5. I’ve called in the past and was told they were not authorized to talk about the old single user products, so if you have a question you’re screwed. They’ll be happy to transfer you to sales  where they will try and sell a “new” server version to you for between $1,200-$2,500, I’ve had a couple different quotes. You’d think they’d give old software licenses holder a discount, but they don’t. If you value your digital assetts, photography, video, music, etc. beware of Extensis Portfolio . Who knows how long they’ll support their current software or even be around. Now, get off my lawn.





Friday, November 2, 2018

Raleigh Editorial Photography

Raleigh Editorial Photography  Spent some time running around Charlotte NC 12th district for Politico






Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Raleigh editorial photography Bobby Purcell

Raleigh editorial photography Got to spend some time with  Bobby Purcell  Executive Director of Wolfpack Club at  NC State University for Business NC Magazine. I always tell people you get out of it what you put into it and Bobby was great. We ran all over Carter Finley Stadium for over an hour in 95 degree heat. Thank you.






Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Raleigh Food Photography

Raleigh Food Photography Shot some food on location then my Profoto  Power pack blew up. That's why I always carry an extra.