Catching Up
A few I wanted to post on this week, but didn’t get to:
A book cover photography exhibit:
Baden was struck by the fact that certain images would get used multiple times, often for very different books, and in very different ways. The same photograph might be cropped or tinted or have type on it. In those various uses, the covers became a kind of history, at once revelatory and warped, of not just photography but also book design, literary taste, and marketing considerations.
A small exhibition drawn from Baden’s collection, ”Covering Photography: fifty-five books, twenty-five images,” runs at Harvard’s Carpenter Center through Nov. 13.
Could be very cool. If anyone’s able to go, please let us know!
A couple on my lust-object-du-jour, Aperture:
Stripping Raw Naked, at creativepro.com:
Raw files haven’t fit smoothly into photographers’ workflows — workflows that are already stressed by the need to process and manage thousands of digital images. That’s why I’m so interested in Aperture, Apple’s upcoming software program, which promises to help photographers convert Raw files and manage, compare, process, and output images of many formats, not just Raw. It’s scheduled to be available (though only for the Mac OS) in November for $499.
Apple isn’t releasing software betas, so creativepro.com can’t review Aperture at this point. But from what I’ve seen and heard so far, it’s got a lot of potential. Every edit is supposedly non-destructive, so you never have to fear losing a master image. The image-adjustment tools cover the basics well: you’ll find controls for crop, exposure, highlights and shadows, histogram, levels, noise reduction, red-eye correction, RGB channel mixing, sharpen, spot removers and patching, stamping, straighten, and white balance.
Bringing Aperture into focus, from Rob Galbraith:
Given the potential for Aperture to really change the pro photography software landscape on the Mac platform, we’ve wanted more information. A lot more. Well, actually, what we want is to see the Aperture installer’s progress bar jogging across the monitor connected to our G5 desktop. But since that isn’t an option yet, staff writer Eamon Hickey and I have had to content ourselves with peppering Apple representatives with the many questions raised by Aperture’s impressive feature set.
This article, which is co-authored by Eamon and me, is a compilation of the answers we’ve received during interviews conducted with Apple’s Joe Schorr, Product Manager for Aperture, and Rob Schoeben, Vice President of Applications Marketing. It’s not meant to be a complete look at Aperture, nor is it meant to duplicate all the information that Apple has put out. It is intended to shed some light on areas of Aperture that we think are important, and for which we haven’t seen a lot of information elsewhere.
And, as is always welcome, a book designer eager to show some work:
He’d like feedback. Interesting thing there is that I have no experience with the audience; what works — or doesn’t — here in the US might not apply in India. Can anyone help him out? Or is it more universal than that?
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Posted by Giles, Saturday, November 5, 2005, at 10:59 PM.
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Comments:
I really like the design. The handwritten elements are very unexpected and a nice touch. I’d like to see another smaller pen on the back with red ink so it ties everything together.
hi chuck,
Thanks for your appreciation of my design. A smaller pen at the back would have really added to the overall appeal of the cover, i do agree.
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Chandan Crasta