Sadly Apple has discontinued both Aperture their professional image editing program as well as the prosumer version iPhoto. This is grave news especially for professional users who are using Aperture as their primary image editor. Users will be expected to migrate their images to the new Photos app in the upcoming Yosemite operating system but how effective this will be remains to be seen. Likely Photos will be an amalgamation of Aperture and iPhoto with better mobile integration and cloud storage options. Alternately the bandits at Adobe are offering upgrade paths for Aperture users. This scenario is exactly why I have been hesitant to lock myself into a single editing and file storage software. I prefer to process images using a variety of raw processing software and manually backing images up to external hard drives with my own file system. Thom Hogan has an interesting article on his site titled "Another One Bites The Dust" you may want to peruse. See link below:
New Nikon D SLR
Nikon has updated the venerable D800 camera to the D810. In short the best pro D SLR on the market has been updated with some key features. Most important will be some modifications to the Sony sensor and totally dropping the OLPF filter this time. It will be interesting to see what practical improvements are seen in image quality. Also the mirror assembly has been tweaked to reduce mirror slap which should lead to improved sharpness. Video functionality has been improved as well as metering functions and speed boost both in the Expeed4 processing engine and increased frame rates!
Nikon D810
Finally
I was finally lucky enough to catch a few elusive aircraft that I wanted to have in my photo library including the 747-400 series and the Westjet 737 painted in the Walt Disney Mickey Mouse livery.
WestJet Boeing 737 Nikon D600 Nikkor 80-200mm@116mm F7.1 1/2000sec iso400
Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 Nikon D600 Nikkor 80-200mm@80mm F7.1 1/1600sec iso 400
Air France Boeing 747-400 Nikon D600 Nikkor 80-200mm@95mm F7.1 1/1600sec iso 400
Elise
Just started processing images from my last shoot with Norm Cheung's Photo Group at Chris's farm on Weston Rd. What a great spot for shooting and fun as always but a lot of work as well. Special thanks to both Norm and Stan for setting this shoot up.
Nikon D600
Nikon Sb 800 flash with Umbrella
Nikkor 28-70mm F2.8 zoom @70mm f5.6
Elise
New website design
I have just uploaded my new design template in order to create a more cohesive site. I believe this format works much better though a lot more changes to come.
Paul
New shot of our ragdoll Bella
I used Bella as a model to test a new lighting technique in order to create a dark background during the day and I was pleased with the result.
Nikon D600
Nikkor 105 macro (1/250 sec; f/10; ISO 100)
Nikon Sb 800 Flash
Bella
Hainan Boeing 787
Chinese Hainan Airlines Boeing 787.
Nikon D600
Nikkor 80-200 F2.8 zoom (1/1250 sec; f/6.3; ISO 200)
Hainan Boeing 787
Boeing 787
Spent the day waiting for Air Canada's new Boeing 787 composite aircraft.
Nikon D600
Nikkor 80-200 f2.8 zoom (1/1600 sec; f/6.3; ISO 400)
Air Canada Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner