Apple Training and Certification goes GREEN....just received this info, I am very happy and supportive of this GREEN move, well done Apple for caring about our Environment.

© Gunther Deichmann - taken care of our Environment in 2008 and beyond...

Hi,
Since environmental considerations are an integral part of Apple's business practices, Apple Training and Certification is pleased to introduce a new Green certificate fulfillment process. Beginning August 1, paper certificates will no longer be sent to Mac OS X and Pro Apps students who pass certification exams. Instead, students will receive an email with a link to download a PDF version of their certificate at no charge. Students will be able to print these certificates, but we hope that most will choose to simply post the PDF certificates on their websites. This new system will be available worldwide. 
Apple Training and Certification

Tags: Environment, Apple Training, Certification, Mac OS X Pro Apps

Click this banner or the link below for more information.

Besides this announcement there is a ton of other information at the Aperture Users Network available. Cool tips, trouble shooting, workflow etc.,etc. just about everything you need to know about Aperture (Aperture 2, & Aperture 2.1.1) plus a lot more.
GD
See below the post I have picked up from the AUN (posted by David Schloss AUN on 07-28-2008, 05:37 PM )
American PHOTO Magazine’s 3rd Annual “Emerging Photographers” Call for Submissions
Winners featured in November/December 2008 issue - Magazine teams up with Apple’s new Aperture software
New York, June 25, 2008 (Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., www.hfmus.com) -- American PHOTO announces the call for submissions for its third-annual Emerging Photographers’ portfolio review competition. The winners will be given the opportunity to have their work published in the November/December 2008 is... read more @ http://www.apertureprofessional.com/

Tags: Aperture Users Network, American PHOTO, NEW YORK, Competition, Workflow

You might remember my son Mark-Lee from one of my earlier Blogs… how he uses GarageBand for creating and mixing his DJ stuff…
I have added a new Music Video/Podcast Gallery (upper left) from now you find the latest Podcast here, with the exception of today.
Direct Link http://www.deichmann-photo.com/page4/page4.html

“Time to Remember” © Mark-Lee & Gunther Deichmann -
(click on the link below or the image for the 1 min.Video, approx.2.5 MB)
Podcast

The other day Mark-Lee borrowed my small Sony Video Cam and took some cool footage at this Disco… and I was trying to relax that day after some editing in Aperture making up some more soundtracks for future presentations. But honestly… I was just messing around relaxing with GarageBand when I looked over to the Mac my Son was working on…hey cool footage son, please let me have some of this stuff…OK Dad... I whipped it into iMovie and about half an hour later had this little Video up and running.
It just gets to show you how easy it is sometimes…of course you need to have a Mac where everything just works so well together, including the transfer of the Video file from his G5 to my PowerBook Pro via Wi-Fi network, super fast...
Cant beat this integration, he,he….plus NOW in YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/user/TIMEJOURNEY
By the way the still shot at the start of the Video came straight from the Aperture 2 Library using the Media Browser in iMovie, the same with the Soundtrack created only hours before in GarageBand.
GD

Tags: Time to Remember, YouTube, Video Cam, MTV, Mark-Lee Deichmann, Disc DJ, Video, Sony

It is nice to hear back from people who have been sitting through the sessions on Aperture 2…and now using some techniques that had been discussed during these three hours. (see below)
The success and credit certainly has to go to Aperture 2.1 with all the NEW improvements from previous versions.
Read below some of the comments I have received from a few participants,many thanks again to all participants who attended the recent Aperture 2 & Photography sessions at the Power Mac Center at Greenbelt 3, Makati,Manila.

Hi Gunther,__Tks a lot for the session in Mac Center !!!_With the new function Dodge & Burn you introduce to me, I enhance a bit more this picture. Sharpen the lovely faces, and burn a little the upper side. Looks better now, no ? Tks again for the time you spend with rookies like us, it's a great experience to learn from a pro like you !!! ;-)__Keep me informed if ever you organize a workshop in the future._Looking forward to see you again,_Cheers,_Vincent_(tks also for your kind comment to my attention on the blog ! ;-J

Courtesy Photo © Vincent Leterrier -
(see his comments above)

I did ask Vincent Leterrier if we can use the image on our Blog, read his reply below send via the .Mac Web Gallery in Aperture 2…I think I found another fan for the .Mac Web Gallery, it is certainly one of my favorites. Note: Vincent using a 15 inch Mac Book Pro and switched recently from Aperture 1.5 to Aperture 2

Hi Gunther,
Tks for your kind comment on my photos, first time I received a recognition like that from a photographer (I know my family and friends love my pictures, but....;-)
Of course, you can use it on your blog, I'm even honored ! (it sounds so formal, but it's not my intention, just take it in the simplest way !)
Here are the photo, I've add another one that I like too. The girl at the back have a pure model face, and I like the East-Ouest multicultural dimension...
Unfortunately, at this time we did not meet yet, so I was shooting in Jpeg only !!! There is a lack of crisp, but this time is over now... ;-)
BUT, the new Aperture 2.1 functionalities like Recovery and Black point are also working well for Jpegs. So fantastic. And the tool Dodge and Burn also!
Vincent Leterrier
http://gallery.mac.com/vincent.leterrier#100059
__________________________

Thank you Gunther, Hermes and to all the Mac staff – an outstanding job!
Kristina, Rose and I had a fun and informative day. Even an old dinosaur with embarrassingly limited computer skills like myself, found the presentation surprisingly "comfortable", not to mention inspiring! You've won three more converts - at PC's expense! Look forward to more of your workshops - perhaps something on restoration techniques of old negative and slide film?
Well worth the round trip from far away Subic!
Cheers,
Kevin Hamdorf, Photographer
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Hi Gunther!
Thank you for featuring some of my shots. It means a lot to me and I am deeply touched. :-)
Hope to shoot with you soon! hehehe
Regards,
Sheila Go

© Shiela Go - using the Monochrome Mixer in Aperture 2.1

Tags: Dodge and Burn, Switching from PC to Mac, Monochrome Mixer, Aperture 2.1

A great shot from © Shiela Go - from Group 2,
my caption would be: “Conserve Water”

Remember…this was supposed to happen last week but due to Typhoon Fengshen (Frank) the Aperture 2 and Photography Workshop was moved to last Sunday. We had a record attendance and I like to thank all participants for taken the time being with me at the Power Mac Center for this fun event.

Aperture 2 and Photography at the Makati Power Mac Center Group 1 and 2

Besides the Workshop a lot of other things happen at the same time around the Power Mac Center, customers receiving a cool Tattoo I LOVE Mac, T. -shirts and Camera Straps give away, plus participants from the workshop received their certificate for being part off it. To my surprise some very familiar faces showed up during our first session, John Chua from Ad Photo, Photographer Kevin Hamdorf who drove all the way from Subic Bay with his Daughter and Rose his Graphic Designer, good old Bebet Gaudinez a Lightroom user who attended my Photo Workshop in Cambodia last year and Vincent Leterrier who participated in one of my earlier workshops made his presence felt with some very cool images he shot recently.

A lot of fun at the Power Mac Center, Makati Manila Philippines.
Hey.. do you like my new Tattoo “I LOVE MAC”

All participants had to go out and shoot a number of images which we later imported into Aperture 2, then we did some adjustments, cropping and changing a few into Black & White using the Monochrome Mixer.

Two images from Group 2


top: Shiela Go below: no name. Two more images this time from Group 2 using the
Monochrome Mixer in Aperture 2

Again two Groups starting the first at 1PM until 5PM then from 5PM way past 8PM a long but fun day. Thanks to Honey Machuca from Think Big, of course to the Management and technical staff at the Power Mac Center for providing me with a non stop supply of Coffee and made sure everything went smooth, they did a great job. Thanks also to Mark-Lee Deichmann for some troubleshooting and Hermes Singson for all the images behind the scene. Thanks to Canon Philippines for providing us with an excellent projector.

left: GD with Shiela Go and the technical staff from the Power Mac Center
right: GD and Honey Machuca from Think Big

The Work Shop was a basic introduction into Aperture 2 with all the possibilities after the shoot, demonstrating the total integration on the Mac with short demos on iLife and iWorks...plus a lot more including a short critique session on the images.
Thank you all, and see you again soon,
GD

More Images by Gunther Deichmann @ http://www.deichmann-photo.com/

Tags: Power Mac Center

Create YOUR own Music and SOUNDTRACKS in advance for your
Slide Presentations & have fun doing it...

Whenever I get the chance I open GarageBand and create my own music tracks they come in very handy when putting together slide shows or presentations later.
I have included a small soundtrack PODCAST below which was created using GarageBand only .
I usually do this late at night or early in the morning; I can concentrate and don’t get disturbed by phone calls and other noise.
The integration on the Mac makes all of this very straightforward and you don’t have to be a musician, as long you have a good feel for music and a little patience.
I love creating soundtracks in GarageBand with thousands of loops to choose from plus the option to purchase a variety of Jam Packs. A word of caution, the Jam Packs do take up some hard drive space.
Creativity is un-limited, it is all up to you, use the existing Jingles and sound tracks or create an entire music track from scratch, there are so many possibilities.
Experiment with GarageBand, you soon find out its enormous capabilities, besides it is a lot of fun.
As mention above Aperture 2 is at your fingertips and of course you have access via the Media Browser to iPhoto, iTunes & iMovie as well. I have a whole collection of sound tracks tucked away in my iTunes Library just for the occasion when I need to put together a presentation in a hurry, creating your own sound is not only fun but you have something you made and this will set you apart from all the others.

GarageBand - Podcast setting with the Media Browser open at the right,
just drag your images into the main window upper track.

Drag your images direct from the Media Browser, you have also access to your iMovie, choose a Jingle small red square this will open all the Jingles, now you can choose which one you like, right large red square. Drag any one of them you like on the time line and have fun...
the soundtrack below was created using Garageband only .
Podcast

Tags: Creativity, Sountracks, Media Browser

Aperture 2 Your Best Shots. Made even better.



Photo by Noreen from Group 1 last week Saturday
the day before "Frank" arrived

NEW Date for our Photo Workshop with Aperture 2 at the Power Mac Center, Sunday the 29th of June from:
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM and from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

You all know we had to cancel our last Workshop/Seminar due to Typhoon Frank which hit the Philippines very hard last Sunday, our thoughts go out to those who have suffered during this severe storm.

Contact the Power Mac Center in Makati for details @
Phone 7297087-88
http://www.powermaccenter.com/

Editor's Choice 2008: Imaging Software Aperture 2.1

Workflow and image editing are equal partners in this year's applications, led by Apple's powerful Aperture 2.1.

By Jonathan Barkey and Russell Hart / American Photo
June 2008

This year saw the advent of specialized plug-ins for Apple's Aperture 2.1 and nondestructive localized editing in Adobe's upcoming Lightroom 2.0 -- bringing Photoshop-style control of specific image areas to these picture-management powerhouses. Some of their fans just might not need Photoshop anymore!
Apple Aperture 2.1 click the link below and read the complete article.

http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/5341/

Now We Know...What is Aperture 2...
The Workshop/seminar included the ff.:

A short briefing for the participants before the actual photography, importing the images after the shoot into Aperture 2 using MacBooks, introduction into the basics of Aperture 2 including the versatile interface, tools, tips, how to produce a short slide show with Aperture 2, the integration on a Mac using iLife & iWorks including a demo how to produce a short presentation with Keynote, brief description on Pages and a live/real time demo using the .Mac Web Gallery in Aperture 2, open discussions and photo critique...plus a lot more.

Cool shot by Group 1
Photo by John

Our first two sessions at the Power Mac Center are done, great attendance, great participants and some cool images processed in Aperture 2.
Shooting around Greenbelt and later processing the images in Aperture 2 an introduction into Aperture at the Power Mac Center, the first group from 1pm until 5 pm was lucky with the weather. However the second Group from 5 p.m. until 8 pm had to deal with tropical rain and darkness, a challenge which in my opinion was well executed.

The participants and classroom sessions, the training
facility at the Power Mac Center, Makati, Manila

I like to thank all participants from today, for a job, well done, special thanks to Melvin Tosino, Andrew and E.J. from the Power Mac Centers technical staff who assisted me during these long hours.
Thanks to Mark-Lee Deichmann for helping out and Hermes Singson for shooting behind the scenes, plus to all the staff and Management from
Think Big for a great job.
Next week we show you some more images (including who took them) from these two days with Aperture 2 and Photography at the Power Mac Center.

A well executed shot during the tropical
rain storm by Group 2

What is Aperture?

Photo: Hermes Singson - GD synchronizing the Mac Book Demo units with Aperture 2 for Saturday and Sunday's workshops.We try and report in almost real time from the event over the next few days, so please stay tuned.

Thanks to the technical staff Mark and Melvin from the Power Mac Center in Makati, Manila for their assistance in setting up the the Mac Books for tomorrows Aperture workshop.
Special thanks also to Honey Machuca from THINK BIG for doing a great job in marketing the Event.
There are still some seats available for tomorrow night and a few for Sunday, call the Power Mac Center for more details and reservations.

Book your seat now @
http://www.powermaccenter.com/
Dates: June 21 and 22, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm

What is Aperture?

Aperture 2 features incredible tools for managing massive libraries,speed through photo edits,making essential image adjustments and delivering photos online and in print using one simple, integrated workflow.

Aperture Workshop (Free)
learn more about Aperture with Apple-certified trainer
Gunther Deichmann
Dates: June 21 and 22, 2008
Time 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm
Book your seat now @
http://www.powermaccenter.com/

Tags: Power Mac Center, Photography Seminar

The last week in June promises to be very exciting with Aperture 2 all over the planet, well at least in New York and Manila see below some dates and venues starting from the 20th of June with a PhotoShelter special.
Aperture Day is approaching...
You find me at the Power Mac Center in Makati, Manila from June 21st to the 22nd. two days of Photography & Aperture 2, for reservations and more info I have provided a direct link to the Power Mac Center below.

Click this link

Manila
Aperture 2 Workshop (Free)
Learn more about Aperture with Apple-certified trainer Gunther Deichmann
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/

Dates: June 21 and 22, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm



Visit Power Mac Center at Greenbelt 3 to book your seat now!
Limited seats only
For more information call 7297087- 88
or email training@powermaccenter.com
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NEW YORK
Join AUPN at B&H for Aperture Day - June 23rd
by David Schloss 06-03-2008 filed in Blog > AUN News


Click this link
The AUPN will be presenting a day of seminars and instruction at B&H Photo in New York City, on June 23rd. Classes are free, registration via the B&H website (link below). Especially aimed at the iPhoto user and the photographer thinking of upgrading to Aperture 2, this session will tackle some of the hottest topics in digital photography, and answer your Aperture questions.
Aperture Day @ B&H June 23 seminar descriptions


All over the world with PhotoShelter

Click this link

Tags: NEW YORK, AUPN

The image below is of a fossilized Ammonite (an ancient relative of today’s Nautilus) from the Jurassic period, one of a few left in my collection, going back in time just like Time Machine…

left: Ammonite from 160 million years ago - right: Nautilus a close
relative from Palau Micronesia

Some of you know my background with fossils or Paleontology…but what has a Mac in common with all of this?
Read this amazing and very cool article below…

Running with the Dinosaurs
Mac Technology Helps Put the Spring in a Hadrosaur’s Step

Read more about this amazing story with cool images @
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles

Tags: Fossils, Dinosaur, Discovery, Technology, Paleontology

Very recently I talked about Aperture 2 iLife and iWorks and the integration on the Mac... more good news for the traveling Photographer has just been announced...MobileMe

Now Apple announced a few days ago a new Internet service called MobileMe - taking the best of .Mac and adding a host of new features. As a current .Mac member, your account will be automatically upgraded to MobileMe in July.
For a closer look, watch the MobileMe Guided Tour

Now is the time to sign up for the latest Mobile technology with MobileMe…. if you a current Mac account holder don’t worry your account will be upgraded automatically.
But here is the very cool part, if you are a Photographer and Aperture 2 user then you going to love this…double the online storage. To give you plenty of space for your email, photos, and other files, MobileMe doubles your storage from 10GB to 20GB for an individual subscription.

Individual subscription storage doubles from 10GB to 20GB.
If you purchased a storage upgrade, it will also be upgraded at no additional charge:
* A 10GB storage upgrade is now 20GB. Your new total storage will be 40GB.
* A 20GB storage upgrade is now 40GB. Your new total storage will be 60GB.

Mac integration you know and love. With MobileMe, you'll continue to enjoy features that take advantage of seamless integration with Mac OS X and iLife - Back to My Mac; access to your iDisk in the Finder; Mac-to-Mac syncing of Dock items, preferences, and more; iWeb site publishing; and photo and movie sharing directly from iPhoto '08 and iMovie '08.
In the meantime, if you have any questions about the upcoming transition from .Mac to MobileMe, please visit the MobileMe FAQ.

Tags: MobileMe, .Mac, Storage, iDisk

I allowed very few people or even friends to use my Mac Book Pro...
Matt was one of these very few.

9:30 PM Manila…the doorbell rang and Matt Weiss from DivePhotoGuide strolled into the office and my home.
Matt has just returned from Puerto Galera where he stayed with Asia Divers and El Galleon Beach Resort a partner in the Philippine-Micronesia Alliance.
Matt and myself chatted all night long and I thought at one point doing a Pod Cast but that would have been way to long… he walked out of here at around 3:30 AM just in time for his flight to Club Paradise in Palawan at 11:30 this morning.

We had a lot in common as we discovered during the cause of the evening...Matt I guess you using a Mac for your work...of course Gunther... the rest you can imagine, we talked shop all night.

Very few are allowed to use my Mac...
Matt preparing a small article for me from his
visit to Puerto Galera.

Matt is studying marine biology and is working for DivePhotoGuide as a writer photographer, he just arrived from Bali and is covering now some of the dive destinations in the Philippines, Jason Heller the founder of DivePhotoGuide and a good friend ask me some weeks ago if I could assist Matt during his visit over here.
So here we are Matt and myself talking all night until the early morning, chatting away about our experience with Mac and Aperture 2, Photoshop, Photography and so on, a very interesting and productive evening. Matt has left this morning for Palawan another great dive destinations in the Philippines and the only place to see Dugongs.
Interesting, Matt is using the New MacBook Air, he decided to work on this trip with it since there are so many weight restriction on small aircrafts and he has to carry a lot already, a ton of cameras and underwater housing making the MacBook Air the ideal choice. We try to catch up with each other again when he is returning from Dugong Dive Center in Palawan next week...for another session and Apple talk. For all his images and stories check out DivePhotoGuide.com in a few weeks.
GD

Matt Weiss and Gunther Deichmann, two Mac addicts having fun, my son Mark-Lee took the opportunity and recorded the "event" on his cell phone.

Tags: DivePhotoGuide, Underwater Photography, Photo Journalism

In one of my earlier Blogs I praised the build in Aperture 2 Web Gallery an outrages new feature which I love so much for my work.

Creating an Aperture Web Gallery is straightforward but I am not going into the technical details today, I rather talk about its enormous use and flexibility, a real money and time saver plus the underestimated .Mac account.

The .Mac Aperture 2 Web Gallery

The scenario…
Lets use a Magazine for an example…say you did a story in Malaysia but now you in Australia on another assignment.
You received an email and the editor is requesting some more images from your shoot in Malaysia but he is not sure what he exactly wants…believe me this happens a lot.
Now here is a potential sale and you don’t like to miss out.… if you brought your laptop along which I always do and kept your Malaysia project in your Aperture Library then no problem.
The editor is making a pre-selection only and the production department would like to start the layout and for that they can use low res. JPG Images.
This happen recently to me with a story on Tibet.

Aperture 2 can solve this problem easy…

You might not have your Master Images with you since you store them as reference files back home on your external hard drive, but you have the previews in your Aperture Library in JPG . In my case I keep the preview size to about 1024 good enough for presentations and the web without clogging up my Mac Book Pro.

You create a Web Gallery throw in some “50 shots” from Malaysia and hope for a good connection, press publish with an almost automatic notification to the Magazine editor.

Direct notification to the Magazine Editor via Mail
complete with username and password

He can view a great looking Web Gallery with many different options and of course the production department can download the low res. files for the layout.
All your caption and information is also there, no need for redoing these since you applied all of this before.
You can password protect and give a username, so only the specific person can view or download the images, however you can also choose for everyone.
I just love the username and password option knowing that only authorized persons have access to it, super cool.

Don’t worry about this little site folder warning which pops up when you try and publish your images it only tells you that your Masters are not available but your Previews in 1024 size are, good enough for a selection and layout.

Pop up warning to let you know that
your master images not available

You finished your assignment in Australia and hit back home, wait for the editor’s choice, once you have his decision you just hook up your external drive where you store your masters and upload the chosen ones in high resolution.
You made a sale while on the road…OK I have to add you do need a .Mac account and a connection and Aperture 2 of course.
After the images have been published, you can delete the Aperture Web Galley for more space on your .Mac account and your ready for the next request.
Remember when you delete the Web Gallery all your images in all the projects and folders are not affected and stay where they are.
There are endless possibilities and it is up to you how to use and implement them for your work.

Years ago we burned CD’s with images and even had to make all the image corrections knowing that they might not be used…not only that but we had to send them via DHL or Fed Ex to magazines and Stock Agencies, this took days and was very expansive. I use to spend more than US$ 3000.00 for courier service each year… how much I spend now? About US$ 350.00 for Aperture 2 and a .Mac account, after that only about US$ 100.00 per year for maintaining your .Mac account. (of course you have the options to increase your storage capacity for an additional fee) I think it makes a lot of sense, plus I am connected and can make a sale no matter where I am.
GD

Tags: TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

Yes, what about iWorks’08 and Aperture 2.1…remember my recent
article how useful iLife’08 can be…lets see how we go with Keynote’08
for starters…
See below a small presentation created for this article, how long did this take? About half an hour…uploading usually takes a lot longer and depends on your connection.

QUICK TIME MOVIE the Colors of Mumbai

Say, your on the road shooting a resort and your client requests a presentation the day before you leave…launch Keynote, without any doubt my personal favor, pick a Theme from the Theme menu, go to your Media Browser select the images direct from the Aperture 2 Library (iPhoto is also there) add text, some animation and your almost done.
But if you really like to impress your client…go back to your Media Browser and choose some Music, I always have some sound tracks prepared in iTunes, multiple tracks of 30 sec., 45 sec., and 2 min. or create your own in GarageBand.

Now you add the sound track and you have a great show in a few minutes, but it gets a lot better…Keynote gives you some amazing export options,
like Send to: iDVD, iPhoto, iWeb, iTunes, GarageBand and direct to You Tube, yes you have heard right… to You Tube direct.

But Keynote doesn’t stop here, see the screenshots below for all the option you have on the Export Panel and a lot more in Quick Time (QT Pro is required for all the options) I just love Keynote for my presentations, the Web or sending a quick preview to clients via mail.
If that is not integration then I don’t know what is!

Export Panel...

Oh I almost forgot…the Built-in voiceover recording (very cool) and Import from and export to Microsoft PowerPoint and other formats.
You might notice I have not left Keynote, it is the perfect integration on the Mac which makes all of this possible.

In short, you work with Aperture 2, edit your images, make the necessary corrections and impress your friends and clients with a cool Keynote presentation.

Direct to You Tube...

How do I use Pages’08… very simple, start with one of over 100 templates to write letters, reports, business forms, and more. Create newsletters, brochures, flyers and posters with ease. Create a simple layout in Pages using the Media Browser to access your Aperture and iPhoto Library.

Dont underestimate Numbers’08 in iWorks’08 it is an innovative spreadsheet application great for your invoices or other related forms such as travel planners plus a lot more. If you need some images for your Numbers then go to your Media Browser, Aperture 2 and iPhoto is right there.

But my favorite is Keynote’08 an amazing and easy to use application, don’t know what I would do with out it…I just love it and my clients too; Keynote’08 alone is worth every penny spent on iWorks’08.
GD

For the latest images visit Gunther Deichmann's website @ http://www.deichmann-photo.com/newimages.html

Tags: iWorks'08, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Quick Time, Workflow

Switching from Lightroom to Aperture 2...a question I have been ask many times in the the past few month, Mac and PC users who have been using Lightroom are impressed with the incredible integration and flexibility of Aperture 2...just when they hear the .Mac Web Gallery function I can see them getting excited and PC users might even switch to a new Mac just for this reason...

I have been asked over and over again…I am using a Mac and like to use Aperture 2 but I have done all my previous work in Lightroom, is it possible to transfer all my Data over to Aperture 2 and not loosing all the info and hours of hard labor?
This subject has come up many times and until very recently I could not answers these questions, and I have to be honest here I have no Idea about Lightroom, I started with Aperture 1.0 been happy since day one and working now faster and more efficient in Aperture 2, some of my previous blogs with samples have shown and proven this only to well.
Back to the real issue, I got in touch with Apple and the APERTURE USER PROFESSIONAL NETWORK AUPN and ask this exact question.

Click the logo and go direct to AUPN

Why should we deny Mac users Aperture 2 if they would like to make the switch, and if you ask me it makes a lot of sense, if you a Mac user then you are so much better off with Aperture just for the integration alone plus with all these new plug-ins.
Apple is aware of it and from past experience a solution is going to be available one of these days, I hope soon for all you out there who like to make the switch.
Go to AUPN for some info on this subject @ http://www.apertureprofessional.com/
Of course if I hear anything in the meantime or there is some more NEWS on this subject I let you know.
GD

Tags: Lightroom, Learning Aperture 2

Edited some 5000 images in Aperture (Aperture 1.5 at the time) made the deadline for my Book Journey Through Color & Time a month later, Tibet being the last chapter of the book, and now kept another deadline thanks to the build in Aperture Web Gallery...see my previous blog. Now the story is out in the Asian Geographic Magazine...read some excerpts below and a screen shot of the spreads...without Aperture (of course now I am using Aperture 2.1) this would have been an impossible task.
Check out also the Photography Competition in the Asian Geographic Magazine in 2008...cool prizes and a chance to see your photos published read my previous blog below "Asia Without Borders"
Here is the link for more details:
http://www.asiangeo.com/contest_awb.html


Tibet’s Horse
Racing Festival

PRAYER WHEELS AND HORSE RACES AT 4,500 METRES
Text & Photos
GUNTHER DEICHMANN

Tibet’s province of Nakchu in Tibet hosts many festivals throughout the year, but one stands out more than any other; it is the highest horse racing festival in the world – a spectacle of colour, festivities and endurance for participants and visitors alike.
Over 10,000 people will cross high passes of more than 4,000 meters by foot, horse and jeep to make their way to the Nakchu Racecourse, to race, eat, drink and make merry during this annual festival. This racecourse, at 4,500 meters, is undoubtedly the highest racecourse in the world.

But be warned – this festival is not for the faint-hearted – oxygen levels in Nakchu are approximately 61 percent and during the month of August, temperatures can soar up to 40 degrees Celsius in the shade at high noon and go right down to minus one degree Celsius in the early morning. There are few tourists in this area due to the high altitude – that and camping is the only accommodation available.

Traversing the Lhasa-Nakchu-Golmud route along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway features landscapes of grasslands, snow-covered mountains and villages, with the occasional view of the newly built railroad from China to Lhasa. It is an amazin