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Tip: Aperture 2…Did you know some of these abbreviations, like ICC profile, IPTC, plus many others…? Difficult to know if you just started to use Aperture or NEW to those Photography terms on the Computer plus more info from the AUN at the Beijing Olympics.
"How to shoot at 10-frames-per-second and edit at 12-frames-per-hour."
©
Gunther Deichmann - Surfing in Bali
Indonesia
Sometimes
it is so confusing and difficult to learn or master
something NEW,
we are so set in our ways and I cant blame you.
But believe me to get of your normal path and try
some thing New can be very rewarding, or even more
profitable for your business.
Recent articles from the Beijing Olympics seem to
prove just that, check them out at AUN or at O’Reilys
interesting observations from the Pros at the worlds
biggest sporting event.
Check out the
very latest info/images behind the scene at the
Beijing Olympics and Aperture 2.1.1 go
to:
AUN -
http://www.apertureprofessional.com/
O’Reilys -
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/aperture/certainly
Below are some
very common terms used through out Aperture and in
Digital Photography today.
Adobe RGB
(1998) A commonly used
color profile often used for printing. Many
professional labs request that image files be
delivered in this color space.
sRGB
A common working space
designed to represent the average PC monitor. Because
of its small gamut, it is suitable for Web graphics
but not for print production.
Adjustments
HUD A heads-up
display, or floating panel of contextual controls,
that enables adjustments to be applied to images.
hue
An attribute of color
perception, also known as color phase. Red and blue
are hues.
EXIF
Short for Exchangeable
Image File. The standard format for storing
information about how an image was shot, such as
shutter speed, aperture, white balance, exposure
compensation, metering setting, ISO setting, date,
and time.
HUD
Heads-up display: a
floating panel with various options. Different HUDs
can adjust levels, increase brightness, modify color
temperature, assign keywords, straighten horizons, or
make any other adjustments.
ICC profile
Created as a result of
device characterization, an ICC profile contains the
data about a device’s exact gamut.
IPTC Short for
International Press Telecommunications Council. IPTC
metadata is used by photographers and media
organizations to embed keywords in the image files
themselves. Large publishers typically use image
managementsystems to quickly identify images based on
their IPTC information.
metadata
Data
describing other data,
including image files. Databases use metadata to
track specific forms of data. Aperture automatically
extracts all industry-standard EXIF and ITPC metadata
when importing images and also allows metadata such
as copyright, captions, and keywords to be added.
RAW
The original
bit-for-bit uncompressed digital image file captured
by a camera. Aperture works with RAW images through
every step of the digital workflow and supports the
RAW formats from all leading digital camera
manufacturers.
GD
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