If you can read or speak Spanish you might find this article and the images interesting, fotoaldia.com is a very cool website with a lot of information and great Galleries…however it is in Spanish.
I guess some of you have to get that dictionary out and start reading…
GD

http://www.fotoaldia.com/GALERIAS-6-1293-0-1-0.html

Mostrando la Galeria de :"Gunther Deichmann"
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Título:"Escenas de Bombay, India"

El fotógrafo australiano Gunther Deichmann ha sido galardonado con numerosos premios internacionales. Es miembro del Instituto de Fotografía Profesional de Australia (IAPP) y ha sido merecedor de 14 reconocimientos al mérito en sólo 3 años. Como fotógrafo ama los colores fuertes, las combinaciones de contraste y las situaciones de gran dramatismo. Ha tenido además el honor de haber sido juez en los premios anuales Professional Merit Awards. Fue a partir de entonces que empezó a enseñar fotografía en el Community College de Darwin. En marzo de 1983, la Revista Time publicó en su portada una foto auya sobre la gran sequía australiana. En 1985, the IAAP lo premió como el mejor fotógrafo profesional de paisajes de ese año. Ha publicado más de 12 libros, incluyendo su obra más importante

“Journey Through Color & Time”, en edición limitada de 360 páginas. Sus imágenes han visto la luz en muchas publicaciones internacionales como: Airone, en Italia, Geo, en Alemania y Francia, la Revista Stern, el New York Times, Grand Reportage, Figaro y también en VSD, en Francia. En la actualidad Deichmann reside con su familia en Manila, Filipinas, desde donde cubre como fotógrafo todo el Sudeste de Asia y el Pacífico.
Desde marzo del 2007 está certificado como entrenador de Apertura por Apple. También integra la Junta Asesora de la Apple para este programa. Para más información sobre este fotógrafo visite esta página: http://www.deichmann-photo.com/
La página web de Gunther es:www.deichmann-photo.com
Gunther también escribe regularmente una columna en este blog: :www.deichmann-photo.com

Tags: Spanish, fotoaldia, Magazines, Gallerie, View from the Car Window

Today I like to share with you an image I have received from Massimo Casal in Vietnam, I have known Massimo for quiet some time from email exchange and Aperture discussions. After seeing my previous article on “View from my Car Window” he send me this very cool image from Hanoi, Vietnam.
Thank you Massimo for letting me use your image on my blog, a nice one to share with all our other readers.
See below email from Massimo:
Hello Gunther!
I always very interested to follow your blogs updates.
Just my 1 cent:
- Regarding the way to protect your pictures on the web I agree that flash make it more difficult. Anyway as you know very well it is very easy to copy a pictures using tools like "Grab" for the Mac, even if still in low resolution.
- I do really like your latest gallery "The View from my Car Window". Street photography (with or without car!) is what I really like and do a lot here in Vietnam. I would like to share the following picture that I got from the car last weekend.

© Massimo Casal - Ha Tay province just ouside Hanoi,Vietnam
you might also noticed that I have added a Copyright watermark
on Massimo’s image hence my other blog
“How to protect my images on the web”.

The picture is taken in Ha Tay province (just outside Hanoi city) from the car window.
I used a Canon 1DMarkIII camera + 28-300L lens. RAW file processed with Aperture 2.1.1, using also the Dodge and Burn plug-in to lighten and sharpen the bride face.
Thank you very much and Best Regards!!
Massimo

Tags: ASIA, HANOI ViETNAM, View from the Car Window, Aperture discussion, Dodge and Burn, Raw File, Canon, Gallery

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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

But before we hit the road a short announcement…
Aperture has just been updated to 2.1.1
Apple has just released Aperture 2.1.1, and update to the program that "supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of minor issues."


A few recent images from this series are on my Blog Gallery click here
or on the image above.
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Sometimes we don’t realize what is around us when we travel by car… traveling to meetings or other appointments, visiting friends or family members. In short we spend a lot of time in our vehicles, trains, busses etc.
Shooting from your car window…glued to your seat never leaving the car, of course you have to have a Driver or go by Taxi. This can be challenging but also rewarding a very different perspective from the car window… you might remember I did something similar in Mumbai, India.
I had to discipline myself not to jump out of the car at times, but then that was the whole Idea in the first place, and I am not finish yet by all means…a lot more to come.
Not easy… moving, your view been blocked by other vehicles when you just about to press the shutter, trucks pull along side of you, or you have to stop at a red traffic light… see something and then of course comes Green, oh no… missed that one too.
We see these images every day as we drive to work or go to meetings, never realizing what is around us since we have to pay attention to the traffic. But as a passenger or with a driver you can create some amazing images, of course you have to bring your Camera along to the Board meeting… “A word of advice don’t try this, if you driving the car this could lead to major traffic jams and crashes…”
For more on the “The View from the Car Window” go my PhotoShelter Archive there you find images from Mumbai, India and Manila, Philippines.
PS.
All images have been taken with out ever leaving the car, edited in Aperture 2.1 then exported direct to PhotoShelter using the Plug-in from PhotoShelter never leaving Aperture. In other words I was “glued” to my car seat and also to my seat in front of my Mac BookPro using Aperture 2.1.1 now if that is not a coincident, then I don’t know.
GD

Tags: TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY, Manila, Philippines, Street Photography, Aperture 2.1.1, Update, Apple Aperture, Photoshelter

I always get ask how do I protect my images on the world wide web…it used to be a bit complicated and tiresome but with Aperture 2 it is easy and straight forward.
Some thief’s go through great length and spend time removing even opaque watermarks in Photoshop, there is never a 100% guarantee even with Aperture and its automatic watermarking.
The perfect solution is don’t display your Images on the web…but I think these days are over and we all like our images out there…so how do we protect our images?

© Gunther Deichmann - aerial of Kayakers in Palau Micronesia, barely
visiable and not to distructing from the image an applied watermark
using Aperture 2

Here are some simple Tips to make it harder for these thief’s …
Make sure your images are in gif or jpg low resolution but still good enough to show them in their full glory. Avoid high resolution images, it is an open invitation for thief’s and they slow down your website.
Apply a watermark as described below using Aperture’s settings.
I recommend placing an opaque watermark over the entire image or covering one third of the image, this is much harder to retouch. Don’t place your © COPYRIGHT name and notice on the sides or at the bottom, this can be easily cropped out.
Choose an opaque setting you are comfortable with and is not to distracting from the overall visual. (Opacity settings eg.0.1 to 1.0 all depends a bit on the image, light or dark) With different options available the opaque slider in Aperture 2 is a good start how the watermark is going to look, just try different settings until you satisfied.
Use only your name or create a logo in Photoshop as a layered file,
it is entirely up to you. The screen shot below shows you where to find the Watermark settings in Aperture 2.
You can also deactivate the Watermark any time if you need your images without it.
I provided you a link to “How do I protect my images online” a great article I found recently with some additional options and tutorials to save guard your images from those thief’s.

Go to Preference and choose the export icon, click and a drop down
menu appears. Click on Edit and another menu becomes available.
Now you see all your Watermark options and settings. (red square)

Below: Excerpts from the mention article...
I am setting up an art website. I want to protect my photographs. What’s the code that keeps you from highlighting an image, right clicking an image, copying an image, etc.
Protecting photos is a common request for photographers wanting to put their content up on the Web. You can do this with JavaScript or by watermarking the image. There is no way to use straight HTML to protect your images from downloading. Some ways include:

* no right-click script
This prevents people from downloading the image when they right click on it.
* Shrink wrapping
This hides the image by letting the thief download something other than what they are trying to download.
* Watermarking
This puts information on the image itself, so when they download it, they have your copyright information right on it.
* Flash
Flash makes it more difficult to steal images...
…read more @
http://webdesign.about.com/b/2008/07/25/reader-question-how-do-i

Tags: Copyright, Legal, Protect, Watermark, Palau Micronesia, Photography, Kayaks, Aerial Photography

...the closing chapter? maybe...but YOU never know what is
around the next corner.


© Gunther Deichmann - “Caring Hands -Save and Protect our Environment”
...Olive ridleyTurtle hatchlings been released into the Ocean, Philippines.

The leatherback, hawksbill and Kemp's ridley turtle species are listed as endangered. The breeding populations of Olive ridley and green sea turtles are endangered along Mexico's Pacific Coast, and threatened elsewhere, the study found. Coastal development, beachfront lighting, pollution and hunting are contributing to the demise of the sea turtles, which come ashore periodically to lay their eggs in "nests" dug in the sand, according to the study. "Threatened" means a species could become "endangered," which means the species might face extinction.
GD

See below the letter from Marilyn Terrell; thanks Marilyn for your kind words, lets do this again one of these days with topics concerning our Environment or related issues.

Fascinating discussion, and I'm impressed that marine biologist Lee Goldman took the time to write such an informed and thought-provoking response. Thank you Gunther for hosting this worthwhile conversation. I like it that people with differing points of view are given a chance to express their concerns and opinions on your blog in a civilized way.
All best,
Marilyn Terrell
National Geographic Traveler
Intelligent Travel blog:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com

Marilys letter came in response of our last discussion and the letter written by Lee Goldman, if you have missed it just click on the link below.
Underwater Photography…are you a responsible Photographer? A letter from a Marine Biologist…Education, awareness, an article in the recent Fins Magazine fits in nicely with the Nudibranch images in National Geographic Magazine…
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/blog.html
GD

Tags: Turtles, Olive ridley

During those rainy months and the Typhoon season I spend a lot of time going through some old but rare scanned images.
These slides had been scanned very rough but in high resolution some years ago to protect them from further deterioration, accumulation of fungus and color shift. Photoshop used to be the only way to restore these images…but since the arrival of Aperture 2 in most cases I can now bypass Photoshop. This is particular useful since I can re- catalogue them at the same time or leave them in their current location on my external hard drives.
In the past I neglected like many of us the proper caption…metadata? But then what was this Metadata and IPTC stuff in those days.

© Gunther Deichmann - Galloping Australian Freshwater Crocodile
(Crocodylus johnsoni)
For more restored and unique images you can visit my PhotoShelter
Archive click on the image above or here.

The images…these must have been the very first image taken of Freshwater Crocodiles showing a true Gallop…yes Crocs do Gallop just like a horse, I bet you didn’t know that, well me neither until I went out with Dr. Graham Webb and his research team some 25 years ago. They studied Crocodiles in various parts of the Northern Territory in Australia…catching and tagging these amazing “prehistoric” animals for a major research project...it was during this research that they discoverd the gallop of the Crocodiles.
I spend month’s with the research team in remote parts of the NT and managed to get these shots with my old X700 Minolta, yes long before my Nikon days.
Recently I came across these images again, but they needed some restoration work, big color shifts (heavy magenta cast) and some fungus had taken its toll over the years.
Not only did I managed to bring them back to life again in Aperture 2.1 but I thought I share a rare moment of the past with you.
Read below some scientific facts about the Australian freshwater crocodile
GD

© Gunther Deichmann - Galloping Australian Freshwater Crocodile
(Crocodylus johnsoni)
For more restored and unique images you can visit my PhotoShelter
Archive click on the image above or here.

Genus & Species: Crocodylus johnstoni (Crocodylus johnsoni)

The Australian freshwater crocodile is a small cousin of the Australian saltwater crocodile. Although there are no subspecies, smaller, darker- coloured populations can be found farther upstream, perhaps due to food availability. They reach lengths of 5 ft (1.5 m). Australian freshwater crocodiles grow very slowly, and may not reach full lengths for 20 years.

Australian freshwater crocodiles have strong legs with clawed, webbed feet. The tail is very powerful. The skin is light brown in colour, with dark bands on the body and tail and sometimes on the snout. The scales are large, with wide plates on the back and ventral osteoderms (bony plates) on the belly. The flanks and outside of the legs are covered in pebbly scales.

Australian freshwater crocodiles are one of the few species that can gallop on land, reaching speeds of 18 km/h. They have a life span of 50 years.

HABITAT
Australian freshwater crocodiles are found only in the provinces of Queensland, Northern Territory, and Western Australia in Australia. They are found predominately in freshwater lakes, billabongs, swamps, rivers, creeks, and wetlands, although not by choice. The Australian saltwater crocodile keeps them out of more saline (salty) areas by outcompeting them. However, when this species was near extinction Australian freshwater crocodiles could be found in saltwater. Today, they are found mainly in freshwater and brackish areas. They are not fussy over water, and will live in muddy, clear, fast, still, deep, or shallow water. After the rainy season they move to more permanent areas of water that will not dry up in the dry season, and will rarely eat and hardly grow until they return at the start of the next rainy season.

Tags: Wildlife Photography, Crocodiles

The smallest Nikon D2X... on my MacBook Pro during the
recent Photography and Aperture 2 Workshop...

Photo by Mark-Lee Deichmann

During my recent Photography and Aperture 2 Workshop at the Power Mac Center, Honey Machuca from THINK BIG Events Management www.thinkbigevents.ph presented me with this soooooo cute Nikon D2X Camera made by Hand just for this occasion.
What else can I say…but thank you so much Honey, you are very talented indeed producing such a small Camera with all the details, even the lens has glass…very cool and thanks again.
Now back to Aperture 2…more Photography and Aperture Workshops are planned from Basic to Pro level…I keep you updated or you can check with the Power Mac Center in Greenbelt Makati. http://www.powermaccenter.com/
GD

Tags: Think Big, Events Management, Nikon D2X, Power Mac Center

© Gunther Deichmann - My good old friend Nipper traditional tribal land
owner in Kakadu National Park during the 70’s

I have just updated my PhotoShelter Archive the NEW Gallery is called Historical Images from Australia.
Some of these images had to be restored but not been altered with the help of Aperture 2 tools and techniques.
For restoring old images with Aperture 2 (one of my previous blogs) go to:
GD Photo Tutorial @ http://www.deichmann-photo.com/page1/page1.html

Check the link for all the new uploaded images
@ http://pa.photoshelter.com/usr-show/U0000zazDqBNKgeg
We have also added a FEEDBACK & CONTACT FORM on the Blog page (upper left) due to popular demand.
Below are just a few of the images which are now available via the PhotoShelter Archive, Images which cant be taken anymore since some of the traditional ceremonies and culture practices of the Aborigines in Australia have unfortunately disappeared.

© Gunther Deichmann - Australian Stockman mustering cattle in
the Outback during the 70’s


© Gunther Deichmann - Aboriginale art, even up to 1970 the
Australian Aboriginales painted the caves in sacret areas
in the Northern Territory, a tradition seldom praticed today.

Tags: Cattle Muster, Stockman, Cowboy, Historical Images, Restoring old Photos

Remember when I visited Mumbai, India for the Aperture 2 World Tour last April…
Creativity and Art has been around for thousands of years and yesterday I received an interesting email from Santosh Verma in Mumbai.

Santosh is a real nice and cool Photographer from Mumbai…well Santosh is not just anyone, he is an excellent and very creative Photographer plus a super nice guy.
I had the chance chatting with him during the Aperture 2 Event in Mumbai and we stayed in touch since. Santosh does some real amazing work, check out his website at
Digital Railroad @ www.digitalrailroad.net/photoeditor

© Santosh Verma - Mumbai India, “Color Printers recyceld”

With his email came this super cool shot (see above) and I just fell in love with it.
Now we are in 2008 and seeing images like this…very colorful and creative…so I decided to bring you Images which I took some 30 years ago…no Aperture and Photoshop then.
The images are related somehow, showing art in its oldest and most recent form, the Australian Aboriginals used to use earth color (Ochre) and paint on Tree bark or retouch 40 thousand year old paintings in caves…now it is Inkjet Printers that translate our artwork on to paper, an amazing contrast.

© Gunther Deichmann - painting Mimi Spirit figures on Tree bark,
Arnhem Land Northern Territory, Australia

© Gunther Deichmann - retouching old cave paintings or creating a new one,
seldom practiced today, deep in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia

When I received the email from Santosh I was working on some old Australian Aboriginal images and that gave me the Idea to show the ancient and new way of reproducing our thoughts and Ideas…now that is contrast!
For restoring old images with Aperture 2 (one of my previous blogs) go to: GD Photo Tutorial @ http://www.deichmann-photo.com/page1/page1.html
Enjoy the images and thanks to Santosh for letting me use his Image… see below his recent letter to me…I guess he is just about to move over to Aperture 2.
GD

Dear Gunther,
Just a note to say that your feature-the feature on you
-in the magazine looks great! I was so delighted with the way
it has come out. Hearty Congratulations Gunther.
And yes, I am persuaded to download the Aperture now,
the one you gave me, after reading so much of your blog and being
encouraged by how good it is.
I will first have to learn how to download stuff with it and then, how to 
make the ' photoshoop' work on the RAW.
Don't be disappointed if I ask you for help in such elementary steps!
Oh yes! Nikon has loaned me a D3!!!! and I will be using it for the next 
one week on a Test Drive!!!
Look forward to hearing from you and working like you Gunther.
Warm regards,
Santosh

Tags: Color Printers, ideas, Rock art, Cave Paintings, Northern Territory, Culture, Ancient, Arnhem Land

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

© Gunther Deichmann - restored images...for more and to compare images
click on the GD PhotoGallery upper left corner on this page.

Whenever I get the time I import some of my very old and scanned images into Aperture 2.1 some dating back 30 years. Due to age and storage condition a few have deteriorated somewhat…loss of color, fungus due to the tropical environment or just good old age.

I used to use Photoshop but now with Aperture 2 there is seldom the need for it and at the same time I can re-catalog them into my system with the Metadata. Restoring Images that are extremely rare in particular old traditional ceremonies with the Australian Aboriginals seldom practiced today. I apply a variety of tools and techniques to retouch the images covered in fungus, scratches etc. with the clone or repair tool, plus the Adjustment Panel gives me a ton of other adjustments to bring the images back to life.

You be amazed what Aperture 2 is capable off, including one of my favorites the Monochrome mixer, given you all the options for some cool looking Black & White images, some of these old images actually look better in Black & White.

I have incorporated a NEW GD PHOTO GALLERY on my blog page now, (upper left side) there you find a selection of images that have been treated in Aperture 2 comparing the original with the restored or converted image next to it. Now and then I upload images into the GD Photo Gallery for you to compare, a lot easier then showing them all on the Blog direct.
Please remember these are only low resolution Images.

This is not image manipulation, I am only restoring some old and precious photos that would have been lost or considered unusable for publications without altering the overall visual.
Most of these images had been scanned from slides a long time ago for preservation and archiving purpose, now we just go back in Time and fix what needs fixing nothing else.
Aperture 2.1 handles the tiff format real well and I have no problems importing files with over 56 MB in size.
However some of the adjustment tools in Aperture 2.1 cant be used since they have been designed to work only with the RAW image format, but this has not stopped me for doing most of my restorations in Aperture 2 now, archiving and bringing them back to life again.
GD

Tags: Restoring old Images, Aperture Tips, Tribal, Restoration, Historical, Aboriginals

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?

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

Due to frequent requests and for those who have missed my previous article...
How I operate and work in the field using Aperture 2...
A simple solution for all your storage plus back up while on the road & you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do it.

The image below shows my typical Hotel or on the road setup, MacBook Pro with two Lacie 160-Gig Rugged Hard drives, if you buy these drives make sure they have a triple interface, they also come with USB only. I love this setup, daisy chain the two drives with fire wire 800 and use the fire wire 400 to go to the Mac Book Pro. (A, B) The drive marked with A is where all my reference Aperture files go, the B is only for backing up drive A via the simple SilverKeeper software from Lacie, (if you purchase the drives the software comes with it) C is my high speed fire wire 800 Card reader, this one goes direct to the fire wire 800 outlet on the Mac Book Pro. You can also do it the other way around, daisy chain with 400-fire wire and use the 800 fire wire out let on your Mac Book Pro.
(Of course you can use other hard drives and a different back up system as long they have a triple interface)

On the road set up


SilverKeeper software from Lacie, comes with the hard drives.

This way you can upload all your CF Cards with out running short of storage space, it is advisable to connect your computer to the outlet since both fire wire Lacie drives take the power of your machine, however I have used this system in the field without the luxury of a hotel and this works fine for just under two hours. (tested with a 1 year old battery at 100% charge)
However it is a good idea to carry a spare battery or make sure you near a place with an outlet where you can plug in your computer.

Back home I just transfer the project and images over to my MacPro and back it up again to my larger external drives.
Now you can erase all the images on your Lacie hard drives and use them for your next trip.
You still have the thumbnails and previews in your Aperture 2 Library in jpg at a resolution you have decided on, I use a resolution of 1024 for my Previews in Aperture 2, good enough for my Keynote presentations and the .Mac Web Galleries. (see my previous blog)

For all the latest and New Images click this link:
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/newimages.html

GD

Tags: Lacie Hard Drives

A small world it is… Smart Photography Magazine India’s leading Photography Magazine based in Mumbai has send me this published article from the Environmental Exhibition which was held in Armenia recently.

Remember from my earlier blog I contributed some images for this Exhibition, but had no idea about the best exhibited images of this year, Kavita Dadhe from Smart Photography told me about it and send me a PDF file, (thanks Kavita) read the article below.
Smart Photography is also publishing a nice spread of my images in the next issue on Travel photography…stay tuned and once it is published I share it with you.
GD

VOICING FOR THE VOICELESS.
DAVOS Film and Photography Annual Exhibition recently concluded in Armenia. It was curated by Ovsanna Hovsepyan, and co-organized by film director and working partner of DAVOS studio, David Sarkissian. The organization works for the cause of nature and environment protection using various media. The exhibition’s aim was to create awareness and reduce the constant pillage of natural elements across the globe. Fourty two photographers from all over the world participated in the exhibition and their images were showcased in Yerevan in Armenia from 28th March to 14th April. The best exhibited images of this year went to Gunther Deichmann of the Phillipines and Nikoloz Tabukashvili of Tbilisi.
To view all contestants and their images log on to www.davosstudio.com

NEWS WATCH in the Smart Photography Magazine, India

Tags: Smart Photography

Most new Mac’s come already with iLife installed but now you have iPhoto as well, are you going to use it? I certainly do and in a very efficient way...

Above screenshot only, play the presentation and click the title below:
The Colors of Mumbai

Click on The Colors of Mumbai for a small sample what you can do in just a few minutes, I really mean minutes not hours. Created entirely on a Mac Book Pro with Aperture 2...GarageBand...iPhoto & iMovie. I have kept the file fairly small for those of you with a slow connection of course you can make this much bigger and have a nice presentation in no time...even when you on the road. P.S. the Music has been composed using the Magic GarageBand setup which took only a few minutes.

All of us have these happy family snaps; images of friends and parties, now is the time (for me) to use iPhoto, keep my personal images separate from my pro work.
But that’s not all I use iPhoto for some of my email, websites and Blogs very handy indeed and keeping Aperture 2 for my pro workload, a nice tidy setup.

Occasional my friends or family members ask me to store or sort out their personal images, yes I could do this in Aperture 2 very easy but my preference is to use iPhoto for this personal stuff. This has been working very well for me since most of the time the images from friends, family, web and blogs are in JPG anyway.

I have found a very nice and efficient way to use both applications and because of the superb integration on the Mac I have access to iPhoto in Aperture 2.1 anyway, plus keeping the business separate from the private images.
iLife is not only iPhoto, you have iTunes, Garageband, iMovie, iDVD & iWeb it is a whole package, now it is up to you how to apply each and every one of them, been so integrated you end up using them all, like I do for some cool presentations.
What about iWorks and Aperture 2…stay tuned and find out soon.
For all the latest and New Images from Mumbai including B/W click this link: http://www.deichmann-photo.com/newimages.html
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Tags: iLife, .Mac, Aperture Tips

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