From MacCreate – Aperture to iPad
Good tutorial on using the book feature in Aperture 3 to create an iPad-ready PDF for use in iBooks. I’ve been doing this from day one but didn’t know it was possible for iTunes to auto-import the resulting file. Nice addition to the workflow. I have to say though, I’m not very impressed with iBook’s [...]
Featured story on JPG Magazine :)
This is nice: my last photo essay is a featured story on the JPG Magazine home page. Yay!
A beautiful portrait from David Hobby
Beautiful shot and – as always – a great deconstruction of the lighting process. Click the picture for more…
Recharging – the Apple way?
An Apple battery charger and batteries? Seriously? Well, at the risk of being labeled fanboy count me in. I’ve been using Sony CycleEnergy rechargeable batteries in my speedlights at $20(CAD) a pair. These promise the same minimal loss of charge while idle, a 10 years lifespan and the whole kit costs $29 – charger plus six [...]
Strobist: Lastolite Triflash Sync
A little pricey but it looks very well made: Strobist: Lastolite Triflash Sync: Triple Threat.
Medical Marijuana Pusher
Another great shoot from John Keatley: John Keatley Blog » Blog Archive » Medical Marijuana Pusher.
home, home again.
I’m back. I’ve dusted off the road from my eyes, settled back in with the family and sifted through most of the pictures I took on my month-long canadian journey. Ours is a big country where lakes are inland seas and mountains reach the sky. Miles and miles of deserted roads and empty landscapes, time [...]
pacific
I can’t move. For the first time in my life I’m completely, utterly paralyzed and empty. It’s a rut that’s been building and has now taken on epic proportions, affecting me not only creatively, but physically and psychologically. My studio feels like a cage where everything has gone dark and silent. Days are both fleeting [...]
Aperture bug follow-up: solved! Update
UPDATE: according to several Aperture forum users, this seems to be fixing a lot of issues such as constant thumbnail rebuilding, reprocessing of images and adjustments resetting. I also have to say that I didn’t have a single crash today while doing extensive editing with brushes. It’s a first so hopefully this is more than [...]
New bug with 10.6.3 and Aperture 3.0.2 UPDATED
I know I’ve been pretty silent about Aperture 3 since it came out, especially considering how much I had been waiting for this upgrade. Fact is, I was waiting to see what a few updates would do to smooth the landscape, one that has been riddled with crashes and various bugs since day one. Unlike [...]
Travel photography
A good checklist from Vistek for a photo trip: Great travel photography: The adventure begins.
Aperture 3 the day after: nitpicks and bugs
I stand by my first impression: Aperture 3 is a great update. That said, now that the dust has settled and I’m over the rush of new technology, there are things appearing that are less than what I anticipated - as well as the inevitable bugs of any new version. Current 32 bit plugins don’t [...]
Photographer Emiliano Larizza in Haiti
Amazing and haunting photography in the midst of disaster: Photographer Emiliano Larizza in Haiti
Macworld UK: Apple Aperture 3 to be released next week?
It’s beginning to look a lot like xmas… Rumour: Apple Aperture 3 to be released next week? – Mac – Macworld UK.
Where Hot Shoe Flashes Dare Not Go
Photo by Zack Arias Great post from Zack Arias about moving into big lights: Where Hot Shoe Flashes Dare Not Go
Professional photographer? there’s an app for that!
Not sure what it’s worth but here goes: ProPhoto . I’m thinking marketing gimmick – but it’s free. I’ll try it out on my iPod Touch later tonight.
A Tale of Two Papers from Luminous Landscape
Luminous Landscape compares Canson Infinity and Hahnemuhle Baryta papers: A Tale of Two Papers I’m a Hahnemuhle guy when it comes to baryta (or Ilford’s excellent GFS) but now they have me interested in checking out Canson. And I thought the paper geek in me had settled ;-)
Aperture 3 a reality?
From Derrick Story via Twitter: http://twurl.nl/e0v2sk Not linkbait. He was on record several months ago about being on the inside regarding the app’s developement. Fingers crossed…
artist site
Alright, so I have this blog and my corporate site. Fine. So how about an artist site? I’ve just launched laroquephoto.com which is just that. A selection of big pictures, nothing else. I built it using flash because I wanted a quick way to allow scaling on any screen. But to be honest I’d rather [...]
2010 – the future now
I was reading a tech article a few weeks ago about something due to come out in 2010. It took a few seconds for my brain to register that this was around the corner and not some far away future … So here we are, with dreams of tablets and software and stuff we haven’t [...]
Aperture 3: others chiming in
From The Apple Blog: But I wonder at what point those of us using Aperture have begun suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, and are defending our captors rather than breaking free for greener pastures. Full article here.
and the award goes to…
This is unexpected: I just won second place in the Faces of Canada – People category of Vistek’s Capture Canada contest. As of this writing it’s not public yet so consider this a scoop ;-) Here’s the winning photo (which you might recognize from another post):
