B&H Photo Video
APERTURE 2 & the .Mac Web Gallery a fantastic time and money saver for Photographers who spend time on the road…keeping those deadlines and making a sale from almost anywhere.
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
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