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Leila Jones - Awesome to see you today on the {b} school! Looking forward to hanging with you in Vegas!

Lydia - Can’t wait to meet you there!

Kimberly Towe - Loved seeing you in studyhall tonight!

ajira - Can’t wait to go. Next year! Have an awesome time!!

2010 Thirst Relief Mentoring Session

02.17.10

Not only do you get a 90 minute mentor session with me either at WPPI, in San Diego, over the phone or video chat but….

Also included with my auction:

Copy of my Aperture Training DVD Either a GO|BEE Hip Clutch or Card Holster depending on if the package is purchased by a male or female photographer.

Grow as a photographer while saving lives!

I’m participating in the 2010 ThirstRelief Mentor Auction. Our mission is to save lives by tapping into the incredible talent and generosity of the photo industry.

Did you know that every 15 seconds someone dies of a waterborne illness? That’s 5760 people every day! You can help. Bid on a mentoring session with your favorite photographer!

100% of the proceeds directly benefit Thirst Relief. Add to that the incredible wisdom and talent that is being shared in the one-on-one mentor sessions and you have better and more successful photographers! It’s truly a win win for everyone involved!

About me and my mentor auction

I guess the first thing to know about me is that I really hate writing about me. It’s just not a subject I’m terribly interested in. That said, I know it’s important for you to have some sense of who I am, so here goes. I have always loved photography but never dreamed I could be one until I met Monique Feil. She saw my passion for images and while carrying her bags at a wedding, she handed me a profession camera, showed me the basics of using it, and I was hooked. I fell in love with the idea of capturing people in their special moments and really never looked back. I put out my shingle as Sara France Photography in 2002 and I spend most of my time shooting, here in beautiful and sunny San Diego, but also frequently across the country or around the world. In fact, I travel so frequently that my friend Becker coined the phrase “Where in the world is France,” that became the namesake of blog. My images have been featured in numerous publications including magazines such as, Modern Bride, Ceremony, San Diego Style Weddings and San Diego Bride & Groom, as well as on some of the more popular blogs including Snippet and Ink, In Style Weddings, Style Me Pretty, Southern Weddings and the list goes on. I speak frequently at major industry events including WPPI, Photoplus and on the Aperture World Tour as well as for Pictage’s PartnerCon where I have been a featured speaker in 4 of the 5 years. You may also have seen my images as one of the sample projects shipped with Apple’s Aperture 2 or Aperture Training Videos and Materials. I also shot a series of the business profiles seen on the www.apple.com. I decided a few years ago that not all camera bags should be canvas and velcro and designed by people with no fashion sense, so along with my friend and partner Lauren Hillary, I founded GO|BEE bags, a line of professional camera gear designed especially for photographers with their own sense of style. I love photography and the diverse and fascinating career it has given me. As a speaker, mentor and friend, I love taking advantage of opportunities to share what I know and to learn from the people I’m teaching. Nothing makes me happier than knowing I may have helped you, just a little along the way, on your path to success. My Mentoring Session will be just that, a session about you. I want to find out where you are and how I can help you get to the next stage in your career. If you want to shoot, we can shoot. If you want to talk about your workflow challenges, let’s jump into that. If you have a product you have been thinking about bringing to market and you want advise on how to do that, great! I am an open book and I want to give you what is going to help you instead of telling you what I think you should know.

My mentor session can take place at WPPI 2010 (Las Vegas), in my hometown of San Diego, CA OR on the phone.

Also included with my auction:

Copy of my Aperture Training DVD Either a GO|BEE Hip Clutch or Card Holster depending on if the package is purchased by a male or female photographer.

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Aperture 3 for the Wedding Photographer

02.09.10

Have no fear, Aperture 3 is here! That is right Aperture 3 has just been released. I am screaming YEAH, I can finally talk about it and share it with the rest of the world!

There will be a lot of people out there talking about Aperture 3 today but I am want to talk to you about Aperture 3 for Wedding Photographers and give you a little insight from someone who has been using and testing it.

First I wanted to tell you about a couple things we have planned over the next few weeks to help you get acquainted with Aperture 3.

We have already started filming a brand new Aperture Intensive Training 3. We will have sections of the training ready for WPPI. This time you will be able to get individual sections or the whole thing but I will be letting you know when each section is ready so make sure and put your e-mail address in to be notified when the trainings are ready.
Adjustments Presets – I have already create a little set of Adjustment Presets that I have been using and they are available for download on shop.sarafrance.com already
Really exciting news is that a couple weeks ago I recorded a really great workflow video with the team at Aperture Users Network. They got it produced and ready in time for today’s release. So the video is available for download right now at APU. It is an hour + of workflow and shooting with me.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention my WPPI Master Class that is only 3 weeks away. The Class is Tuesday Morning from 8am to 10am. There is still room and now I can tell you that it is going to be an Aperture 3 Master Class! Yeah! You have to go through and register WPPI first if you have not already and the class is an additional $50.

I am going to give a FREE copy of the workflow training that is on APU away to the 100th person to leave a comment on the post so hit me with your best question in the comments below!

I would love to keep you in the loop and let you know when the other Aperture Trainings are ready to ship. Just leave us your e-mail and we will make sure you get that.

With no further ado I give you Aperture 3 for the Wedding Photographer. This is my list of 15 of the best things about Aperture 3 for Wedding and Portrait Photographers.

1) Sharing Libraries/Projects made easy – This has to be one of the things I am the most excited about. They have completely changed the way that Aperture 3 Libraries and projects are able to be used and shared. You can now merge libraries which is huge but even bigger is that projects will now sync!

Merging Libraries – You can now merge Aperture Libraries which is awesome!
Sync your projects – That is right, now when you drag a project into an Aperture Library it will look for that project and sync the two projects together to give you all the latest work that has been done to it without duplicating the project. On top of that when you export a project it becomes it own Aperture Library and you don’t even have to import it into a library to work on it. You can just take it to another computer, work on it and send it back.
Switching Aperture Libraries without relaunching the Application – Now you can switch libraries or create new ones right from the File menu.

Example: I import a project (selection of images) into Aperture on my Computer A. I then decide that I want my studio manager to narrow down the selection so I drag it onto the desktop. My studio manager navigates to my desktop through the network and launched that library on her computer. At this point that library is really small so it is easy to move around. The images are being stored on my external drive, not in the library. She then rejects images that do not need to be considers and closes the project. I then drag the project back into the Aperture Library and continue to work on it from there or I can just keep it as it’s own library and continue to work on it from where it is on the desktop. No longer will it create a whole new project when I bring it back into Aperture. No longer will we have to switch computers to do things or have multiple versions of the same project on different computers. Hello merging & syncing I am so happy to have you!

2) Duplicate Project Structure - You can now take any project structure that you have created, no matter how complex and duplicate it to use it for a new project. This is great for the use of Smart albums especially since you have already created the perimeters for them. You can duplicate that project structure, drag or import images into project and it will start to fill the smart albums right away. Beautiful, Simple, and clean organization is one of the things that Apple and Aperture are known for and this just makes it that much more powerful.

3) Whole new Import Dialogue box with:

Customizable Import Settings – this means that you are able to select the things that you use on import and set that as your default so you do not have to see things like “Rename Files” if you never rename your files on import.
sRAW and many more file handling additions but I am the most excited about sRAW for the Canon 5D MKII
Apply Adjustment Presets on import – Okay, I let the cat out of the bag a little early but yes I said Adjustment Presets. I do not think anyone is surprised about this one. This feature allows you to apply a preset to the images on import.
Actions – For the geek in all of us you can create Apple Script and have it run on on any import. I talk about this more in the AUN Video
Backup Location – You can choose a second location to import your images to and the speed is still wicked fast. Yes, that is the technical term.

4) Organizational Additions

Color Labels – Now you color label images. There are 7 different color labels
Flags – You can now flag images as well and there is a great place set up specifically for you to see all the flagged images that are in your library.

5) Adjustments – First Adjustments have moved to a new drop down menu that is easier to get to and see. The bigger news is that there are some really great new adjustment tools. On top of all the Brushed tools that I will talk about next, they have added:

Curves – This is a really powerful Curves tool. If you are used to working with Curves you will love this new Adjustment
Chromatic Aberrations

6) Adjustment Presets – Yep they are finally here and I am so excited that they are finally here. No more work around for this and I could not be happier. A couple cool things about Adjustment Presets besides the obvious.

The organizational structure that they created is awesome for these.
You can customize your custom keyboard shortcut to presets
Exporting and Importing Presets

7) Brushes – Now you can use non destructive brushes in Aperture with just about any one of the adjustment bricks.

Brush in or out adjustments
Choose how you see the brushes: Color Overlay, Brush Strokes, On White or On Black
Brush an adjustment in or out – so if you apply and adjustment and you like what it did to most of the image accept for this one area, you can just brush that area out.
Edge awareness on the brushes – this is so awesome if you are as bad at coloring as I am. This senses where the edge is and does not apply it to to the area that you are trying not to affect. For instance if you were trying to darken the background but you did not want to darken the subject, you could easily color around the subject and it would avoid the person based on where the edge of that person is.
You can not have more than one brick of the same adjustment. So for instance if I wanted to add contrast to one area but remove contrast and saturation from another, I could create one brick with the adjustment and brush it in. Then create another brick of the same group of adjustments and brush that in to the 2nd area of the same image.
You can also change that adjustment after you have brushed it on. So if you get done working on an image and think you might need a little more or that adjustment you brushed in, no need to bring the brush back out. Just adjust the levels on the brick to bring it up or down.

Quick Brushes – Along with new adjustments and the introduction of brushes they took it one step further and introduced Quick Brushes which takes some of your most popular things that you might have left the application for in the past and gave you the capabilities right here! My favorite Quick Brushes include:

Skin Smoothing
Dodge – this is not the same took that was in Aperture 2. That was a plug in and this works 100 times better and it is an adjustment layer so it does not a new version of the image and you can just take it off or adjust it’s intensity without touching the original image. Same for the Burn tool
Burn
Polarize
Intensify Contrast
Contrast
Saturation
Definition
Vibrancy
Blur
Sharpen
Noise Reduction

9) Full Screen Mode - You really have to see full screen view to fully appreciate how powerful and pretty it is. You know when the beautiful Apple Screensaver starts on your computer and for a second you are just transformed into the land of that little island or those mountains? It is like that. Some of the enhancements that I am in love with:

Make the Adjustments disappear – Hold down shift and move a slider and the hud disappears so you can see the whole image
Browser View Option
Lock the hud in place and watch as it moves the images to the right or the left to move out of the way of the image

10) Books -

You know I had to have SOME news about books in Aperture and of course I do. Books has now created the ability to use layouts and design albums for 4 of the best Wedding Album Companies in the business; Leather Craftsmen, Queensberry, Couture Book and Graphistudio. Not only did the companies create great layouts for you to use if you like but you can still create whatever layouts you like. The best part? Just hit the “Send Book…” option and you get a great dialogue box that lets you make your cover options, and uploads the layout to the company you created the book design for. That is it! So easy. I have one being delivered today from Leather Craftsmen. Super excited!
UPDATE: The links above will take you right to the page to download their plugins or you can go to Apple’s site to get the links. Check out the images they used for the samples too! You might remember that wedding. That is Josh and Carrie Cox, one of my favorite wedding clients and friends. Josh is a professional runner.
I will be doing separate training videos on how to design books for each of these companies and we are planning to have those ready for you at WPPI which is only a couple weeks away now. Make sure to stop by the booth of the Album company you work with or are interested in working with and ask them about the Aperture Book Training Videos.

11) Faces - YES! I knew when I saw faces in iPhoto that this was something we could really use in Aperture. What a great way to find more pictures of the Bride’s mom or Grandmother. Also faces looks into your address book to auto fill the name in based on what you are typing. Faces is really going to help us organize and sort through our library in totally different ways.

If you have not used faces in iPhoto and have no idea what I am talking about, faces is face detection that allows you to tag an image and say who it is and find more images of that same person based on their facial structure. It is incredible.

12)Places

This is another tool that works similar in iPhoto as it does in Aperture but again this tool being used in a professional manor is going to really help us to track our images in a whole new way. Also, if you do not have GPS in your camera as many of us do not have or have not seen a reason for there is great news. You can take an iPhone photo at the even and it will pull the GPS coordinates from that or you can just go into the map and type in the location and it uses google maps to find the location so that you can then assign that location to a group of images or the whole project of images. I have a ton of fun applications in mind for this tool and some really great business tools for it as well. Places feels like one of those things you buy for your business that you secretly feel excited about on a personal level. Like a new toy that you “just had to get for the business.” I am really glad I have it as a tool and even more excited to get it out of the box so I can play with it.

13) Video and Audio – Aperture 3 has introduced not only the capabilities to import video and audio it takes that to the next level.

For the Wedding Photographers that have embraced the new video capabilities of the Canon 5D MKII, 7D and the Nikon D3S Aperture 3 brings all your media into one application. You never even have to leave the application to create a great multi media product for your client. I am not sure I am stressing how huge this is. I will talk about it more when I talk about Slideshows.

14) Slideshows - This is not your father’s slideshow. This is not like any slideshow tool you have seen. Here are just a couple things that it does:

Themes – there are themes 8 themes to choose from right off the bat including our old favs like Ken Burns.
Titles and Text
Multiple Audio Tracks including Audio from video files and multiple song tracks
Video and it ducks the audio when you use Video with Audio.
Timing – Customized timing that you set. This works similar to how Showit Slideshows works accept that you use the return key instead of the spacebar. Also, it will set the timing for you to the beat of the music. That is a really cool feature!
Edit your Ken Burns Crop and Transitions
Control the background color
Export – You can export to the iPod, iPhone, MobileMe, YouTube, Apple TV, HD1080p or go custom and export as any size you want.

Note: In the Video I did with Aperture Users Network I go through creating a slideshow and show all the great options it has. I create a slideshow with the Ken Burns theme and show how you can do custom timing to your own song selection and adjust the Ken Burns to be just like you like it.

15) Social Media – Now there are big pretty buttons in the interface for sending images to Email, ModileMe, Facebook, and Flickr

16) Trash - now if you delete an image it does not leave the program. It goes into the trash right in the program and you can get it back easily instead of digging through tall your trash.

That is my list of amazing things. I hope you are as excited about this release as I am! Don’t forget to leave you e-mail in the box below and a comment in the comment box! Come back and let me know how you experience has been. I would love to stay connected with you and hear about how you are using Aperture. Happy Aperture 3 launch day!

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jeramy - dang it! how did i let this happen!!!!! ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well…congrats to the winner. dang it!

Erik Colonese - Hey Ajira,
the aperture master class was awesome! Sara was great. There even was a dance off at one point.
email me at Erik@colonese.com and I will send you those links.
ALSO! I have some pretty exciting news for you.

ajira - @David No hard feelings mate! I’m glad it was finally won- the tension was getting too intense for me and I’m sure my twitter followers were tired of hearing me go on about it! LOL!

ajira - @Erik I’m on MacCreate too for the Aperture network but haven’t seen presets. Would you mind sharing a link (or two) to that? I’d be grateful.

So jealous that you’ll be at Sara’s master class!! Wish I could be there too!!

David Todrin - Sorry, Ajira… For once being on the east coast helped (I think?!)

I checked this morning, saw 99 and well… Maybe Sara will have some other offers during WPPI that those of us at home can play in!

Regardless, thank you Sara for sharing these great tools, and for also making sure A3 was awesome!

ajira - Looks like @David came just in time to scoop it!! Goshdarnit!! I knew i shouldn’t have gone to bed!!!!

wazime - I love aperture and can’t wait to get my hands on the new version and on your presets. They Look great.

David Todrin - Sara,

Good luck at WPPI.
Can’t wait for all the announcements, etc.!

Erik Colonese - Oh, by the way, I think the next post will be the winner. Go for it Ajira. .

Erik Colonese - Hi Ajira,
I’m going to check that link out. Sara already has some presets out I think. I joined maccreate which hosts an aperture network and got some free presets and lots of helpful info. If you haven’t checked it out you should.
I’ll be in Sara’s aperture master class Tuesday morning. :^)
Be well.

ajira - Erik! LOL… my son Chésaweh is waiting for ME to win!! I’m enjoying curves too. All the adjustment panels seem more sensitive than before and I’m hardly opening PS at all. Love that! Starting to find presets for A3 online too which I’m really pleased about. Start by searching apple.com/aperture/resources. I’ve found and used these and they’re sweet: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/aperture/ggzurlipresetsforappleaperture3.html
Best thing about them is how easily you can adjust them to your own tastes. Can’t WAIT for @sarafrance’s presets!

Emily Downey - I can’t believe that you have not reached 100 yet. This is an amazing giveaway. Come on people!

Michele - I would love to win!

Erik Colonese - My son Connor is waiting fir me to win!
I’m really lovin Curves.

jeramy - almost there!

ajira - Hey Erik! Not yet… Still hoping to beat you friend. Sadly I won’t be at WPPI this year. Staying home with my new baby. Next year I’ll be there fo sho! Dodge & burn rock. So nice to have them totally in A3 instead of how it was in A2.

Erik Colonese - Hey Ajira, I’m here! Did I win?;-)
Are you going to WPPI? In Sara’s master class?

Oh, and thanks Sara, I didn’t think of dodge and burn brush instead of exposure to lighten/darken parts of the image.

ajira - Oh my goodness! So close, and yet still so far! @Erik where you at??

Kia Gregory - Tips for aperture newbies? It all seems so overwhelming!

Harmony - The major difference between aperature and lightroom?

Feuza - just helping out so some friends can be the 100th, very nice of you to do, see you in Vegas

angie - so awesome!

ajira - Ha! I refreshed this page about a million times. Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration there… Finally went out for a walk, fully expecting that we’d have hit 100 comments by now. Not yet though. (fingers crossed). At this point, I’m betting that either Erik or I will win! Ha!!

Hildi Todrin - Hi Sara,

Great Study Hall. I use Aperture, not Lightroom. Am still amazed at how much I can do in Pages and have used Pixelmator some.

I love Aperture’s library system and have been using the album design. Aperture 3 is great, just frustrating that some of my thumbnails are still strange and still crashing some even with the update.

Looking forward to learning it better! Was at One to One today:-)

David Todrin - Awesome study hall! Can’t wait for the new workflows!

Erik - really trying hard to win! can’t blame me for trying.

Danny Mendoza - Hey Sara!
COMMENT #…
See you @ WPPI!

Emily Downey - Still on the [b] school and waiting for you to approve us….

ajira - My husband is totally mocking me for wanting this so badly that I’ve been visiting and revisiting this blog post to see how high the comment count is! Missed most of your talk on Study Hall- so bummed. Was getting my burn attended to. Hoping someone’s recorded it somewhere or I’ll catch you the next time. Hope I win, hope I win!!

Chris Paxman - I saw you on the B-school today.
Can’t wait to get my new copy of aperature.

Kimberly Towe - Posted on my the most recent post but putting it here loved you in study hall tonight.

Lydia - What do you recommend for PC users? Is there any way to get Aperture to work on one?

Emily Downey - Sara,

Saw you on the [b] school study hall just now. Thanks for the info.

See you at WPPI!

Emily

Erik - Just watched you in study hall with Becker. Hoping I’m #100.

Erik Colonese - It’s me again. I have the aperture 2 intensive and I love it. I’m sure 3 is going to be even better. Looking forward to meeting you at WPPI.

Angelique - I want to add a comment for everyone trying to get it up to 100! Let’s go!!! I downloaded the trial today…..and so far….I have no complaints.

ajira - hi again Sara,

Is the video you made for MacCreate significantly different than your training DVD? Would you recommend I get one or both? If one, which?

ajira - Okay, giving up on my strategy now. Was waiting for the comments to get up to the nineties before saying anything but I’m bursting with excitement still so got to just get it out! I can’t wait for your DVD Sara. I love Aperture but often feel like I’m not using it to its fullest potential. Any help in that department is greatly appreciated!

Steve - Are you really not at 100 yet, Sara? I would still love to win

Nadine Priestley - Loved the updates on libraries & projects! I’d been searching other places unsuccessfully for that info. Could you write more about your external storage, backup and archiving strategies? Thanks!

jeramy - boy, i must want this…huh?

jeramy - still going…

Troy - Hey Sara…thanks for all the info and insights…hope to see you in Vegas!

Brian - Sara whats the difference between your intensive training DVD and the download from maccreate.com. are they the same thing? Thanks

jeramy - i haven’t won yet, have i?

Carl Reid - Hey Sara,

I just twittered you on your thoughts on the new Aperture 3…boy don’t I feel silly. Thanks for the informative post. I’m going to play with this program for the next few weeks. Hopefully we’ll connect at WPPI.

Regards,
Carl from T.O.

jeramy - so…currently, sharon and i use lightroom. how would you compare the two? better? different?

Sara - Yes we are going to and we are going to add some video trainings to them. Exciting stuff!!

Hartmut Kocher - Now I will leave iPhoto behind for good. I always used Aperture for main work, and iPhoto for some cool features. Finally, Aperture is a real superset of iPhoto – very exiting!

David Todrin - Sara — cant wait to dig into A3! Previews look awesome, and it’s nice to finally have a substantive reply to LR!

Are you going to update your ShootQ workflows as well?

jeramy - did i win yet?

ajira - Wow. I downloaded the trial because the upgrade wasn’t at my local store yet and I love it already. Look forward to hearing more about Aperture 3.0. Thanks for an informative piece about it!

Kevin Wynn - I’m making the jump from Lightroom to Aperture 3! Two things I wish it has (or that I didn’t see): graduated filters, and a history of all of the adjustments. Other than that, it looks amazing!

Heather White - I purchased my upgrade today! Can’t wait to get into it!

annie - I just got a chance to read your top 15 reasons list, and I can’t wait to get the upgrade! #1 will make life so much easier! right on apple!!

Mark Andrew Higgins - How did the Leathercraftsmen album turn out that you ordered through Aperture? What series was it? 8500/7500?

Love to know more!

annie - so excited to get the new version and to see your training DVD!!!

Denise - Got the free trial and am waiting for my upgrade to be delivered! I want to thank you..I bought your DVD to learn how to make custom albums…and have been making custom albums ever since. Now that we have templates from some of the best album companies, I’m even happier!

Erik Colonese - I love the way apple did presets. The preview down to the organization.

Miguel Pola - Hey there Sara! Can Aperture read xmp files from LR and sort using color labels that were assigned in LR or Photo mechanic? please say yes…. hahahahaha

Rebecca - Looking forward to your new training! I learned a lot from your Aperture 2 training. I like your emphasis on keyboard shortcuts…. Wondering if there are any new shortcuts in the bookmaking functions now.

Rasmus - Thanks for a great post can’t wait to get my hands on the trial!

Sara - You can go get the video training right now at http://aperture.maccreate.com/

Sara - You are within the first 100 but you need to be the 100th. There is still time!!!

Sara - I know, right? Thanks for commenting on my blog sweetie! xxoo

Sara - I think I know the answer to that but we are going to go over that in the training today so let me test it again and get back to you.

Sara - Allen, it is so amazing with video. Especially for a new video user who can feel pretty overwhelmed. It is simple and intuitive. Let me know what you think. Did you download it?

Sara - Let me see if I can test that today. I do not have a dual screen set up usually.

Sara - So so close You can always post twice!

Sara - Hey Beth, We will miss you at WPPI but congrats on the baby!!!! Exciting! Get the Aperture DVD early and you get a discount and the first run of the DVD. It is on http://shop.sarafrance.com right now on pre-order sale for $99. Thanks so much for your support!

Sara - Hey! I really wanted to tell WPPI that we would actually be teaching Aperture 3 but I did not know for sure if we would. I am SO excited that I am going to be able to share all of this with you. The only hard part is figuring out how to fit all the great info into 2 hours. Be ready!

Sara - Hey Steve, One of my favorite things to do is take people to the Apple store to buy their first apple computer. Let me know when you are ready. I know that makes Aperture like 2k instead of $199 but it is still worth it and you get an Apple computer with it. Yeah!

Sara - Hi Edolyne,

I actually already created some and posted them on my shop site. http://shop.sarafrance.com. I am sure Chase will have some out as well if he does not already. I saw him using some in the video he did online. You might check his site.

Sara - Good questions. The download sheet is there to make sure that every card and image is accounted for after a shoot. Also, my studio manager is the one that does the does the download so I needed to put in things that would allow her to be able to check the images since she was not at the shoot. Then I can always look at the download sheet if something looks like it might be missing and it alerts her to talk to me if something does not match up.

Sara - Awesome! Thanks for sending that. I will update the blog post.

Tiziano - Hello everybody.
I’m playing with Aperture 3 and i think that it’s …amazing
i’ve noticed that also Graphistudio is out with their pages and you can find at http://www.graphistudio.com/aperture/

i’ve also noticed that for graphistudio you link the old website… just remove /en/index.html from the link and you’ll be redirected to Graphi’s new website

Fabiola Rodriguez - Hi Sara, (I think you are awesome).
You mentioned a download sheet for when you download your images, what does a download sheet consist of and why do you need it?
Thanks, Fabiola

Edolyne Long - Sara, thanks for all the great info. Can’t wait to put it through it’s paces and see how it works. Really great to see the global presets finally in place, can’t wait to see some great ones come out like yours and maybe even Chase will get in on this as well.

Jack - I look forward to trying Aperture 3. Lots of great features

Steve Arnold - Hi Sara, Thanks for the most in-depth blog of this new version of aperture that Ive seen so far. As a pc user I am always interested to read about what you guys over there on the mac side of the fence are getting up to. Seems like this version 3 is gonna turn a few heads!
Cheers

Sara - That is great news Stephen! I will add it to the post! Can’t wait to give it a try!

Ed Taylor - Thanks for all your hard work on this update Sara!

Stephen Baugh - Hi Sarah

Thanks for the great review.

Queensberry have our plugins and information on the website now.

Thanks
Stephen

Erik - Hi Sara, as soon as I saw aperture 3 announced I came here. I knew you would be on it and excited as I am. I’m in you wppi masterclass!
looking forward to discussing more in person.

Erika Lara - It’s very exciting to learn about the new Aperture…I was beginning to wonder when all that great stuff from iPhoto was going to be in Aperture and it’s finally here, plus more!
BTW, Congratulations Sara on your wonderful photos, you are such an inspiration, thanks for sharing!

John W - Thank You Sara for carrying the torch for us Aperture users. I can’t wait to dive into Aperture 3 – good thing, I’ve got 10,000 images piling up that need some attention.

Beth Dreyer - Oh my goodness I’m so excited about this. Of course I’m having a baby in three weeks so I can’t be at WPPI to hear you talk about all this at the booths. I’ll have to order the training videos. So exciting!

Steve - I hope this is #100!

Bart - have you found a way if using 2 screens to have thumbnails on one and full image on the other while making adjustments?

Allen - I’m interested in seeing how this works with video.

Thomas Lester - Hi Sarah – Here’s a question. Is there an ability to watermark on output to Flickr and Facebook? Also, for Flickr, can you specify the output size?

Takki - This is really an amazing list – now I am convinced that I have to try Aperture 3

Jeremy - I can’t believe this entire software is only $199. My slideshow software by itself cost more than that.

Eliud Matos - Can’t wait! Hope I’m within the first 100.

Kamara Alleyne - I can’t wait to get my hands on Aperture 3.0. I also would like to see some video training too… I know I’m far away from being the 100th commenter but so what… I’ll get my stuff some how.

Jeff Cleveland - Sara, this is awesome. I’ve waited for this for ever! And thank you for the offer!

Erik Eilers - Super stoked for this! I look forward to seeing you training video this evening! Thanks

Jose Gutierrez - I am the 100th person!

Audra Bayette - This is it! This will be the release that moves me to Aperture for my Album Design!

Aric - Thank you so much for all the info. I can’t wait to start using Aperture 3

Olly - Hi Sara,

How have you found the new video features in Aperture 3? Do you shoot any video and are your clients asking for video as well as stills now?

jeramy - good stuff sara. have a great day!

Jeff Hawk - i new if I kept waiting they would get it to us.

planetMitch - Awesome Sara, I knew you’d have something ready to go as soon as Aperture came out! Good luck to number 100

allie bartelski - Chris is going absolutely crazy right now! So excited and can’t wait to see all your videos!

Orlando Negron - It is move fast from one Raw to another?

By the way.. I’m interested in the copy of the workflow training, where I have to leave a copy.. here?

Thanks!

Steve - Thanks for all this, Sara!

How about giving something away for the first comment?

Indian | Christian Wedding Sari Photos ~ Estancia La Jolla

02.05.10

There are still many images to come but this is part 2 of my posts on this wedding. These are some of the images of the couple that we took before they changed into their second outfits for the reception. Wait till you see that! I just love the colors and the beautiful Estancia Resort and Spa in La Jolla. Such a beautiful setting for a wedding!

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ajira - Beautiful!

Indian | Christian Wedding ~ Estancia La Jolla Resort & Spa

02.05.10

Okay, so let me give you a little truth here. I have a hard time blogging. I know it is no surprise to you and I know you are out there agreeing with me too. Why? Well I try to focus my energy on my clients and blogging seems to always come last on the list and I always have something that seems more important. Then, I look at all the images I would love to share with my friends on my blog and I feel guilty and I know I should do more. So, I am excited to tell you that I am really making an effort to blog a lot more! So here is the first day of blogging a lot more and I hope you enjoy it.

So, because it has been a while I decided to start off with an absolute phenomenal wedding I shot. The Wedding was at the Estancia in La Jolla. There are so many reasons that was super excited about this wedding but the first was that Rebecca and Jayant are just such incredible people. Jayant is a brain surgeon which just blows my mind, no pun intended, and on his days off you can find him down on the dock playing sax and collecting change. Rebecca on top of being an amazing nurse is the most considerate, kind and caring individuals I think I have ever met. When you meet the two of them it is really an incredible treat.

The next thing that made me know for sure that is was going to be an outstanding wedding is that they hired the amazing, Heather from Amorology to design and coordinate the event. Then on top of that they selected the Estancia for a location. I was in heaven!

Okay, let me try to stop gushing and show you some images.

This is Rebecca and Jayant’s Fathers together. Both just incredible men.

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