APERTURE 2 & the .Mac WEB GALLERY…keeping tight schedules and deadlines is easy now…delivered Tibet on time…a real live scenario.
APERTURE 2 & the .Mac WEB GALLERY
delivered Tibet on time…
For
more images on Tibet by Gunther Deichmann
visit
his
website @
www.deichmann-photo.com
or
visit his
PhotoShelter Archive
& Collection @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/stock.html
Deadlines,
deadlines and more deadlines…the last minute changes by
editors or the production staff from magazines… an all
to familiar story.
Take this very recent case; I submitted images from
Tibet for a story in the Asian Geographic Magazine, the
first images where in low resolution…for selection
purpose.
Weeks went by and yesterday the shout for the
high-resolution images came in…
”we need them today”…
OK. No problems…I got
Aperture 2 and
since all my high and low resolution images are stored
in my Aperture Library I quickly selected the “CHOSEN
ONES” had them up for downloading on a New
.Web Gallery with
username and password…that was last night. (see the
email correspondence below)
Today I received the email below…do I have to say
anything else? I guess not…once the story is out this
month I let you have a preview until then…if you need
your images out there fast from one publisher to
another, use the
Web Gallery in Aperture 2, so
easy now and happy faces at the production department.
GD
See
below the original email correspondence from the last
24 hours…
First
email…
Hi
Gunther,
Thank you for providing us with the requested
information so promptly under such short notice, we
really appreciate it. :)
Here are the images we require hi-res versions of, (see
attached).
Thank you,
Sabrina
A
few hours later…
Second
email…
Hi Gunther,
Thank you for your quick reply, we do apologize for the
short notice.
I have managed to download all the hi-res images from
the link you provided.
Thanks again,
Sabrina
Fresh APPLES and APERTURE 2… they had a lot in common recently …a simple shot from inside my Hotel Room in Mumbai India…plus one more Black & White…using the Monochrome mixer.
APPLES
+
APERTURE 2
=
MUMBAI INDIA
© Gunther Deichmann - Fresh Apples in Mumbai India
View GD images on India at his
PhotoShelter
archive or collection @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/stock.html
It is
amazing what you find or have forgotten when you do
some more editing in Aperture a few weeks later.
Remember my recent trip to Mumbai India for the
Apple Aperture 2 World
Tour. During
my stay at the Hotel I noticed these Apples on this
small Table, I thought…hey not bad, the light, the
reflection and I guess the relationship between the
words Apple and Apples, I shot this scene right in
front of me using only the available light from the
window.
Then in
Aperture 2 I
used only the Raw conversion, the straighten tool, a
little cropping and applied some sharpening.
So there you have it…real fresh Apples from Mumbai
India.
©
Gunther Deichmann - Apples and
window
This
shot was taken few minutes later while sitting on my
bed and looking towards the window, a straight shot I
might add…and I didn’t move the furniture either, no
manipulation in Photoshop, again using only the Raw
converter in
Aperture 2,
the straighten tool, a little cropping and some
sharpening.
The
Black & White image below…
©
Gunther Deichmann - Mumbai India April
2008
I
saw this women sitting outside her home in a small
alley in central Mumbai, the original image was color
but converted to Black & White in
Aperture 2 using
the Monochrome mixer.
GD
BURMA-MYANMAR NEEDS HELP! Devastated by a Monster Typhoon...the people are starving...
BURMA needs our help more than
ever...
©
Gunther Deichmann - Burmese Indian Community north of
Yangon
No
need for many words but Burma needs
help...I
have traveled through this amazing and very beautiful
Country years ago and the Burmese people are some of
the most gentle in South East Asia...deprived of their
freedom by a brutal Military Regime who will not even
let outside help into the country in times of real
need. This has to stop...
A group of Monks helped me many years ago from being
arrested, now I have seen them getting beaten by the
Military and Police why is outside help been delayed
when it is needed most?
As a travel Photographer/Journalist I feel responsible
to voice my opinion, even if this will not change the
currant situation...lets hope there be a change for the
better in the near future.
Buddha bless,
GD
F1 GRAND PRIX & Formula BMW Racing CALENDAR for 2008...including the very first F1 Race in Singapore at NIGHT...a challenge for Nikon v. Canon in low light conditions.
Let see who is the winner on this track...
But did you know that Aperture 2 or now 2.1 is going to be in China at the Olympic Games in full force, not me this time, but many Pro's going to be there using Apple Aperture 2 software...a lot more on this later.
GD
Due to popular request I have provided you the dates for the F1 Grand Prix and Formula BMW Racing events for 2008.
The most exciting and the very first F1 GRAND PRIX NIGHT race in Singapore is on Sep 26 - 28 (Rd 15 & 16) Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore
Formula BMW and F1 Grand Prix Calendar 2008
March 21 - 23 (Rd 1 & 2) Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia (along with F1)
May 16 - 18 )(Rd 3, 4, 5 & 6) Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
June 21 - 22 (Rd 7, 8, 9 & 10 Zhuhai International Circuit, China
July 18 - 20 (Rd 11, 12, 13 & 14) Sentul International Circuit, Indonesia
Sep 26 - 28 (Rd 15 & 16) Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore (along with F1)
October 10 - 12 (Rd 17 & 18) Fuji Speedway, Japan (along with F1)
F1 Grand Prix at night soon in SINGAPORE...the very first & supported by the Eurasia Team and of course Marlon Stockinger Philippines & Aditya Patel India...“I want to own a Ferrari team” Aditya Patel is all tuned up…
Wow…what a statement from Aditya…but then why not!
Back to the F1 Grand Prix and Formula BMW… this time a report from India.
Received two articles from Kamlesh Patel in Chennai India… Mumbai? India? Sounds very familiar… it is still around from one extreme to the next again.
OK. OK. That’s enough…back to our young Racing Driver from The Eurasia Team who made 3rd place recently in Sepang Malaysia.
Now the team is looking forward to the big and exciting race in Singapore soon, the very first F1 Grand Prix at night. Is this going to be very fast?
But for sure furious… The Formula BMW Eurasia Team with Aditya Patel & Marlon Stockinger will be there as the support race in their Formula BMW.
OK. That’s about it … see below some magazine articles from India featuring Aditya Patel & GOOD LUCK to the Eurasia Team.
GD
These articles just arrived from Chennai India...for
more details visit
Aditya Patel's website click on the images or this
link:
http://www.adityapatel.in/latest.html
DJ Mark-Lee…Aperture 2 and GarageBand…plus iTunes…how does this fit together? Simple…if you got a Mac then you can do all of this plus…a cool slide show with sound, assembled on the road.
Let there be visuals with sound...
pure integration &
imagination!
Artwork
© Mark-Lee Deichmann - Mark-Lee used an old iSight
camera
mounted on the Mac Titanium G4…took a self portrait of
him
& manipulated the image in Photoshop.
Take
an Aperture slide show…you have to make a presentation
while on the road, fine you have the images and
got
Aperture 2…
but music…?
In most cases if you using a Laptop for your roadwork I
guess you have
GarageBand and iTunes…iLife
installed.
If
not, you better hurry and do it
now…
Here comes the sound, you create a sound mix in
GarageBand or use a short loop (pre-installed with
GarageBand) export the finished track to iTunes and
you’re done.
The only thing left to do… open your slideshow
in
Aperture 2 and
add your sound track you created minutes ago,
follow my instructions below how to get
there,
iTunes is
now at your fingertips find your sound track & add
it to your slide show, sounds almost too easy.
See
my sample screenshots below…
Maybe a bit of practice in
GarageBand will
help, but the rest is easy…
Take
my Son Mark-Lee for example… he is doing some part time
DJ work and he uses my old but still very functional
Titanium Mac G4 Laptop, using
GarageBand and
creating his own artwork in Photoshop, see above…pretty
cool if you ask me.
There he is sitting with his Numark PHX Headphones
whipping out music on
GarageBand or
just mixing his sounds for his DJ stuff on my old G4.
If you are a music lover and created your own mix, of
course you can use these too...but
please don’t use something from the iTunes Store or
from other sources, Music which does not belong to you,
respect the copyright of others.
GD
When GarageBand opens
you see this screenshot, the small red circle
shows you where to find your loops & Jingles,
now delete/remove the tracks (large red oval)
Select Jingle red circle on the
left then your taste of music e.g.. Blues/Rock
red circle in the
center, pick something which will fit
with your timing/lengths of the slide show, listen to
it and if Ok drag it on the the now empty time line,
remember you removed the other tracks previously.
Select Share a panel
opens up to guide you the rest of the
way...to
iTunes
Back in Aperture 2 select
your slide
show, a small panel opens, now click
the small
arrow, red circle to go
to all the settings for your slide show
Once
you have arrived here you have many options and
your iTunes
Library is there too, now you find your
sound track which you have created only minutes before,
select it go through your slide show settings and your
done. Your own sound with a cool Aperture 2
slideshow created on the road.
Of course you can always prepare some music at Home and
later use it for your Aperture Slideshow, I have
created my own tracks when traveling and the weather
was bad, spend my time in the hotel room, mixing sound
tracks in GarageBand... but at least I had some
fun.
APERTURE 2 Tip...iPhoto Library and Aperture 2.1 how well do they work together? Real well...& so useful if you started in iPhoto and switched to Aperture 2...iLike...or is it iLife.
Before the arrival of Aperture some of us used iPhoto but found it had its limitation… now you installed Aperture 2 and keep going back to iPhoto for these older images…Yes?
No need… you stay in Aperture and have access to all your iPhoto images and can leave them there, no need for importing all the high-end stuff, no more switching back and forth.
As a matter of fact you can do this not only with iPhoto but also with your images stored on your external drives from years ago as mention in one of my earlier blogs.
Now back to iPhoto and Aperture 2, because of the integration everything works just so smooth and the cool part is staying in one software instead open up half a dozen or so…
Check out the screen shot below for more details, so there you have it, full access to your iPhoto Library.
I normally use my iPhoto Library for my Blogs and personal images like the kids and family and use Aperture 2 for my Pro stuff, keeping them separate. The choice is yours how you like to manage your images, it is easy to import your complete iPhoto Library and use Aperture 2.1 working with one software.
That is why I love Aperture…given YOU the choice.
A little tip... if you have mixed up your personal images with some others but like to separate them, import the iPhoto Library into Aperture, once that is done delete all the personal images in Aperture and your images are organized, dont worry your personal images are still in the iPhoto Library since you selected in the import panel leave in current location.
Now you can go back to iPhoto and delete the non personal images...
I call this a real spring clean.
GD
Go to
File in
Aperture 2 scroll
down and select
Import then
Import iPhoto Library,
make sure you select
leave images in their
current location.
Aperture
automatically creates a new Folder
(see the red square on the screenshot)
containing your complete iPhoto
Library,
Depends
on how many images you have stored in your
iPhoto Library this
could take some time since
Aperture 2 creates
Thumbnails and Previews.
This is a screen shot of my iPhoto Library and you can
see (I selected the underwater images) they are now in
my Aperture Library.
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@
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APERTURE 2 Tip...where do I find my Camera info...this is nice if You like to compare DATA...very cool & not only for the Pro's...
A cool little Aperture 2
Tip...
Where
do you find at a push of a button YOUR Camera Info when
you like to compare your shots after the shoot
in
Aperture 2.1
See the provided screen shot below, the small drop down
menu (small
red circle)
is where you find ...Show
and Hide Camera & Color
info...the
red oval shows
you the data, you have to be in the adjustment
mode/panel.
This is very useful when comparing shots, what might
have gone wrong or right...You can also move your
Cursor over the image to get the color Value in between
the images, the grey area will show you the Camera
info. Play around and you find this is a very useful
addition in
Aperture 2.
You can also move your cursor over your Thumbnails...
for those of you who are still in the early stage of
Photography this command is great for analyzing your
images quickly.
Try it out and have some fun...Aperture is not only
great for the Pro's but it can help you to take better
images by quickly finding out what went wrong or right.
GD
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Deichmann's website @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/home.html