Bearded Man

Posted on July 7, 2014 Posted in People, Photography, Street, TravelTagged black and white, blackandwhite., candid, leica, m9p, Monochrome, people, square, street, Summilux 35mm f1.4 asph, travel2 Comments

Among all the tourist magnets there are in Brussels I was more taken by this chaps beard. Impressive don’t you think.

Atomium III.

Posted on July 6, 2014July 6, 2014 Posted in History, Photography, TravelTagged attraction, black and white, landmark, leica, Leica Summilux 50mm f1.4 ASPH, m9p, Monochrome, travelLeave a comment

Atomium II

Posted on July 5, 2014July 5, 2014 Posted in Photography, TravelTagged architecture, atomium, attraction, Belgium, black and white, Brussels, landmark, leica, m9p, travel8 Comments

Atomium

Posted on July 4, 2014July 4, 2014 Posted in History, Photography, TravelTagged atomium, Belgium, black and white, Brussels, leica, Leica Summilux 50mm f1.4 ASPH, leicam9p, Monochrome3 Comments

The Atomium is a building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo ’58, the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 mtr’s (335ft)tall. Its nine 18mtrs (59ft)in diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.

Bored on a Bus Trip

Posted on July 3, 2014July 3, 2014 Posted in Transport, TravelTagged bored, bus, leica, leinik, m9p, Monochrome, Nikkor 20mm f2.8, novoflex, travel1 Comment

While on a long bus trip in Germany,the traffic was very heavy. We were in all around 2 hours behind our plan. So I used the time to try out my Leica M9-P with the Novoflex LeiNik adapter and, my Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 lens. I Chose a 21 mm lens from the lens recognition menu on the M9-P .

You can see the same setup on my Leica MP HERE

Roar and Gunn Berit

Posted on July 2, 2014 Posted in PhotographyTagged ferry, leica, m9p, people, Summilux 35mm f1.4 asphLeave a comment

Aperture is Dead.

Posted on July 1, 2014July 3, 2014 Posted in Hobbies, PhotographyTagged Adobe, aperture, Apple, lighroom5 Comments

So the answer is now clear Aperture is a dying product. Apple, have officially said that it will no longer develop it further. This means I’ve waited in vain for the improvements that Lightroom users have. Like lens profiles for one. Aperture is no longer the cool kid on the block.

I felt let down in a big way. When I think that I have paid good money for a professional software and some plug-ins that will no longer be improved. No one knows what the replacement will actually be like. Just my guess ,but knowing Apple it will be a consumer level product not geared to the enthusiast.Thanks Tim!

However I do have Lightroom. It came along with the package when I subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud. I use it too, well not all of it just the printer module, which I find very easy to use since I took a course when I purchased my Epson printer. It’s just the rest of it that I’ve never quite got the hang of. Aperture was so much better at that. You just import and they are stored in some magic Apple way. Some people see this as a weak point. I’m not interested in fiddling around with the pictures I import when they a quite happy sitting in whatever form they do in the picture package. They are there in Aperture waiting for me.

Lightroom is another kettle of fish that I haven’t got my head around its storage methods as yet. However now it seems I’m going to have to start to try and understand, and work at it, (Maybe Adobe will too ;0) if I want a picture editor that is updated on a regular basis. Hopefully someone maybe even Apple will produce a plug-in that will enable a painless transfer form Aperture to Lightroom. I’ll use both,but mainly Lightroom from today even though the storage system is no way as elegant as Apples, and the ability to share is very clunky I’ll get used to it I’m sure.Or maybe Adobe will fix it?

So let the challenge commence … Or I could try this :0)

http://www.lynda.com/articles/one-library-shared-aperture-lightroom

Finally Have any of you readers jumped ship before this ? What were your biggest challenges? Let me know in the comments .

Thanks for stopping by…David.