The document summarizes the work of a digital imaging specialist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It describes projects like compositing images, color correction, and creating timelapse videos. It then focuses on the specialist's most challenging project - creating digital versions of two missing wooden panels for the new Islamic galleries to match the aged appearance of the existing panels, which were printed on canvas and installed in the gallery.

2. The following images are but a sample of my
derring-do as a photographer and as a
Photoshop Aficionado.
The photographs, created to intrigue or repel
but always engage, are largely taken in studio
with a large format camera and then scanned
and digitally enhanced and perfected.
The second segment of the show is dedicated
to displaying my chops as a digital imaging
expert during my 5 years at the Photograph
Studio in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

12. The following is a taste of the work I did at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a Digital
imaging Specialist…. Compositing
images, color correction, background
replacement, shadow fabrication and
creating paths to extract objects were all
part of the daily regime.
Occasionally a curve would be thrown at me
and the team such as creating a Time lapse
video of an installation or the virtual creation
of a gallery before its completion….

13. Before

14. After Receiving “The Treatment”

15. George: The Trilogy

16. Ready for Hessians

17. Perspective &
background…deeply flawed

18. As it is meant to be seen…

19. Indonesian textile in two takes

20. ViolÀ!

21. Metropolitan Magnum Opus:
My small role in the making of the
new Islamic galleries
I was given a task during my final year at the Met., one that would prove the
most challenging and involved that any I had undertaken. My duty was this:
The new Islamic galleries were under construction and coming along nicely.
A request from one of the curators was posed to my boss. The request
revolved around one of the centerpieces of the new galleries, The
Damascus Room.
The entirety of the room was in the Met.’s collection with the exception of
two six foot tall wooden panels. These were in the collection of Doris
Duke’s Estate in Hawaii…. and had been aggressively conserved as
compared to our conservative efforts that allowed three hundred years of
age to show.
My charge was to create a digital version of the missing panels that could
live comfortably with the rest of the room. These versions were to be
printed on canvas and stretched to mimic the three dimensionality of the

22. The Imagery I had to work with.

23. one of the final panels along with
a snappy detail of the process
and the final!

24. The panels as seen installed in
the gallery