Podcast #74 – Back to the Basics – Composition with Roberto Valenzuela
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Podcast #74 – Back to the Basics – Composition with Roberto Valenzuela
January 19, 2010 – 6:34 pm | Comments

This week we go back to the basics and talk about composition with our good friend Roberto Valenzuela.
Roberto talks about composition and gives the following guidelines:

Choose a selective focusing technique
Placement and composition of your main …

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Podcast #44 – Conversation with Sara France – Introduction to Apple Aperture

Submitted by KerryG on April 7, 2009 – 6:54 pmComments

podcastAre you a total Apple Aperture N00b like David and I are? If so, then you may want to listen to this podcast featuring our good friend Sara France. Sara is very well known for her Apple Aperture skills and she walks us through some of the basics of getting started with using Aperture and how to use some of the very cool features like Smart Albums and the Book designer.

If you would like to see or hear more from Sara, be sure and check out her upcoming Aperture DVD that will be available for purchase from http://photographymentor.com.

Too see what Sara is up to, check out her websites at:

Sara’s Website

http://www.sarafrancephotography.com

Sara’s Blog

http://www.whereintheworldisfrance.com

Sara’s Store

http://shop.sarafrance.com

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Kerry Garrison (http://kerrygarrison.com)
David Esquire (http://esquirephotography.com)

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About the Author: Kerry Garrison is a wedding, portrait, and product photographer living in southern California. With 10 years of experience shooting products and 3 years of experience in the wedding industry, Kerry brings a good deal of technical know-how and can explain topics in easy-to-understand terms. Kerry's work can be found at http://kerrygarrison.com and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KerryGarrison

  • Excellent tool, one of my favourite
  • UZ
    Ow, ow, ow!

    I beg you to check your audio levels for those of us who use earbuds and headphones. I don't mind a very quiet or loud show, easy enough to adjust the volume then. I had to take my earbuds out for the Lensbaby promo because it was significantly louder than the rest of the show. If this was on an audio historgram you would have blown your whites there.

    Otherwise you guys have an excellent show. TOTALLY
  • Steve
    Good podcast. I'd agree with Sarah in that for the wedding photographer it makes something like InDesign CS4 unnecessary. If you and David are still trying to get your arms around it a bit, check out the screencast Derrick Story did on custom layouts at lynda.com:

    http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/07/08/aper...

    Also, Derrick Story talks about Aperture's custom book capabilities with Apple Product Manager Joe Schorr here:

    http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/05/06/aper...

    Also, definition in Aperture is clarity in Lightroom. Vignette is not a default tool when you first launch Aperture, but you can choose make it a default tool. You can set as few or as many default tools as best fits you workflow. No sense taking up screen space with tools you don't use often.

    Highlights and Shadow slows response down quite a bit on a slow mac. There are some workarounds for this, though.

    She mentioned the M and F key shortcuts. The other one you should use is the V key, which will make your screen more LightRoom-esque if you want to see all the menus around your photo. Tapping V will cycle through three different screens with different views.

    Want more free info? Apple has over 50 training videos here:

    http://www.apple.com/aperture/tutorials/

    There's a great video cast on Aperture available on itunes by Richard Harrington of RHED Pixel:

    http://www.mdialog.com/channels/9255-aperture-2...

    Finally, lynda.com provides about 6 free episodes on Aperture 2 you can sample.

    Hope that helps.
  • kim
    Sara mentioned a software tool, issue - I think, for displaying albums online. Is there a link to this software that you can share. I have searched for it, but had no luck.
  • Sara and Robert Evans both use http://issuu.com/ to display PDF files to their clients.
  • JS Photo
    How about more info on the Think Tank promo?
  • More info is coming, what i know now is that you get some kind of bag with any order of $50 or more if you go to http://www.thinktankphoto.com/affiliate and use code AP-193. As soon as I get the complete details I will make a post about it.
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