Aperture 3 and GPS
I’m testing out the new Aperture 3 for 4 hours now, and I must say I am a little impressed, but not all the way.
One thing that I wanted to try out was the GPS tagging feature, and this works like a dream. Being an Iphone user I love the fact that I can use GPS data from my iPhone photos without having to import them first, this is great. When out on a shoot, just snap one with my iPhone at important locations, and then when I get home I assign the places with the photos.
It seams that the GPS tags are only stored on JPEG’s. The GPS tag on RAW files is only stored within the catalogue file. So after exporting the RAW file as a RAW the data is lost (it stays when exporting as JPEG). This is a little frustrating. I’m not so happy about using photo editing programs that store data in catalogues. I prefer the way that Bridge does it. Having a XMP file with all the adjustments is much easier and I don’t have to worry about the catalogue crashing. And at a point everything seams to slow down when there are to many files to handle.
I am also trying out an app called Geologtag that logs locations and exports as a GPX file that Aperture also can handle. Using this method will bring up a travel path on the map rather then the hot sports that comes from using the iPhone photo method. There is a lite version to try out.
A note on catalogue crash: I was at my parents house 1 week ago, and my farther could not understand why some of the pictures in iPhoto could not be viewed full screen and not edited. After 10 minutes of looking around I found out that all the pictures from 2006-2009 was gone, and only the preview files was there. Like Aperture Iphoto has a package file that it uses to store the files in. I don’t think my farther have been playing around in there and this is something that really makes me anxious. What if this happens to all my stuff while its in there? Back up, back up back up, i know, but still…
Time machine saved the day once again and we could bring all the files from 2006-2009 back.
More from the depth
Still browsing my hard drives, and still finding old photos that sets a good mood around me.
Right after I was done with my work at the refugee camps around Aleppo, Ein El Tal and Neirap, I bumped into two German guys, Jan and Kris, that was traveling Syira and Lebanon. We fell into a conversation and ended up traveling to Latakia together for some days of relaxing. After that we split up, I went to Damascus and they went to Lebanon for a bit of an adventure with the Hisbollah. Taking photos in the wrong part of Beirut can get you into trouble if you don’t know what your doing.
We joined in Damascus after they got released in the Omayyad Mose, for a drink of water in the shade of the sun. Then back to my house for some food, a swim and yet again to be split up.
This photo here is at a buss stop in Latakia. We just arrived from a day of drive in the mountains. The view from up there was amazing.
Finding lost treasure
While working on a very special project I have come across some pictures that just stood out and got me in the right mood. Once more they do a fine job and I just wanted to share one of them with you. This also means that the COP15 pictures will be held back, but priorities have taken over.
This one is from the fantastic city of Damascus. A place I’d like to call my second home.
No ISO 100?
I just spend the last hour trying to figure out why my camera was not able to go to ISO 100 or 6400.. I tried all that I could figure out, nothing helped. It came to a point where I was putting on other lenses to see if there was a malfunction in the hardware. I reset the camera and that did not help either.
The thing that worried me the most was that I yesterday shot pictures at ISO 100, this I can see in the meta data on the files, and when I came home I put the camera down on my table and did not use it further. Hmm…
After some figiding around I remembered that I just before putting the camera down was messing around in some sub menu. Found a “Highlight tone priority” control. I put it in enable thinking that you should always prioritize tones. The tone priority also rendered my flash unable to control the light that made me burn out all the images. Lucky enough I was doing a photo shoot with my cup of tea at the time.
The picture above is the test shot I ended up with after figuring it all out. I hope i’ll be ready with the COP15 pictures for my site in the next few weeks. Please all stand by for them they are worth the wait.
The new year has started
Looks like the new year came in the best possible way. This year I had the joy of spending it with some of the best people around me. We had the best party ever and some great food that I had the pleasure of preparing for them.
I’m looking forward to a great year that I’m sure will bring lots of new adventures to my life. My brother and his wife are looking forward to a family expansion and with my father illness that have come to and end, already there is a lot to start out with.
I’m looking forward to posting lots of beautiful pictures, getting better at what I love doing the most, and hopefully get on that road trip that was planned for 2009 but never happened.
Above is me on my couch looking at the first picture that I got printed, and just my luck it was a front page.
Act The Fuck Now
Happy Holidays to everybody. To all the people who I have worked with, to the people who enjoy my work, the visitors of my page and everyone else.
This picture was taken during the COP15. A German activist uses alternative eye catching methods to communicate his views outwards.
Post COP 15
The COP 15 is over and while all the politicians tries to promote the great job they did while in Copenhagen I will be doing the last editing and getting ready to bring you my pics form the 2 weeks of protests, meetings, talks and well more protests.
‘Copenhagen Outcome’
The Copenhagen Outcome is in place at this moment. World leaders have come to a non binding agreement. The last demonstration was held before and during the moment the deal was sealed.
I’ll be using next week to compile my cop 15 series and send the last pictures off to the folks I made deals with. The two pictures below is one from Øksnehallenwhere the NGO’s that could not enter the Bella Center held there last meetings. As the large screen in the back concludes the summit they are doing some concluding of there own. the other is form the last demonstration in front of the parliament. Free the climate prisoners was but one of the messages of the day.
Too many arrests
During the summit there have been some demonstrations going on as one could expect. The police here leaves nothing to chance, to they take as many as they can and holds them over night in the special “climate prison” as preemptive arrests. On the 12Th of December during the biggest demonstration yet, 1.000 people was arrested and held over night. only 4 ended being charged. A lot of criticism has been put on the police but a law here that got passed just before the COP15 summit gives the police the rights to hold anyone back that they feel can pose a threat. below is 5 pictures that show some of the demonstrators.
Don’t buy into there lies
Today was the first real street protest. The plan was to hit different of the polluting companies, shops and office buildings, but due to preventive arrests less then expected arrived and not nearly enough to complete the task. The danish police handled it well, and no real problems arose.
Tomorrow is going to be the big day, about 50.000 is going to attend and Never Trust A Cop, is saying on there website they will stay in the inner city and start the riots. I don’t know yet if ill be heading out to the Bella Center or stay inside the city.
