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NEWS: Aperture 2 or now Aperture 2.1.1 at the Beijing Olympics, an interesting article by David Schloss from the AUN...Photoshop, Bridge, Aperture...the race is on…or is it won already?
In his article David is absolutely right, many Photographers dont have the time, (try to make time) or could not be bothered to change. I know many such cases...but I know also many others who are willing to listening and try very hard to make the switch from Photoshop to Aperture, in the end it is for their own benefit. I had similar reports from India where Photographers like to make the change but find it difficult to switch from their existing workflow, the lack of “HANDS ON” a common problem...but how can we solve this?
Websites like AUN (http://www.apertureprofessional.com/) and O’Reily (http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/aperture/certainly) can help you a lot, or the Tutorials from the Apple Aperture site, (http://www.apple.com/aperture/tutorials/) events like the Olympic Games in Beijing are certainly a great help for all our News/Sports Photographers, and gauging from the sheer scale Apple has put up at the Beijing Olympics there is no doubt in my mind on the SOLID COMMITMENT for the Pro and Amateur Photographer by Apple.
© Gunther
Deichmann - Kite surfing action Philippines
&
as David Schloss put it
so nice...
"How to shoot
at 10-frames-per-second and edit at
12-frames-per-hour."
Local and regional Retail
Apple/Mac shops can contribute in hosting some
Aperture events, introducing Aperture
2 at
least to a basic level, I know some of these event
have been organized in the US and we have done quiet
a few in the Philippines with the support of
the Power
Mac Center in Manila, for Training schedules go
to: http://www.powermaccenter.com/
My
personal opinion and closing words...get familiar
with one software instead messing around with many
different ones. You find Aperture is not that
difficult to learn or to digest, it might be a bit
strange in the beginning (no need to SAVE
anything) but as time goes by you going to love
it...like I do. Plus you have all the integration
on the Mac, perfect for events like the Olympic
Games.
But
now to Beijing...
Beijing
Olympics and the Photoshop
Paradox
( posted by David Schloss on Yesterday, 08:37 AM
)
The AUN's been on the scene at the Olympics for
nearly two weeks, working with Apple in the Main
Press Center helping to provide support for the
one-thousand-plus journalists who have descended on
Beijing to cover the world's largest sporting event.
While I've just arrived in country to replace someone
who has been here for weeks, I've already noticed
examples of what I like to call the Photoshop Paradox
or "How to shoot at 10-frames-per-second and edit at
12-frames-per-hour."
Apple's got a rather large amount of support
available in the MPC, (we're in the lower level,
relatively near the McDonalds) with fifty MacPro
desktop systems set up connected to 30-inch Cinema
Displays. Members of the media are welcome to come
and hook up to them and work on Aperture or any of a
number of other programs on the machines, and the
"broadband" connections mean that photographers can
go from shooting to submission in no time.
That is, unless they are still using Photoshop as
their main image management tool. I'm not talking
about Bridge, I've seen a few photographers who are
using various iterations of that image preview and
editing tool, but for some reason many of the
shooters—at least many of those who bring their own
laptops in to work on their images—still have a
workflow whereby they open up dozens of images at a
time in Photoshop, and use that interface as the way
to make their image selection...
read the
complete story & more @
http://www.apertureprofessional.com/showthread.php?t=18615