Amateur Photographer magazine’s Leica tribute issue, containing a double page spread interview on my “Love Your Job” photograph. July 18, 2014. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
It’s always nice to be featured in magazines and this week’s Amateur Photographer magazine (June 19, 2014) has a double page spread about my “Love Your Job” photograph. Fittingly, as the issue is a tribute to Leica’s 100th anniversary, the image was made on my Leica M9.
Sadly, Apple announced on June 27th, 2014 that it was no longer going to develop Aperture. It is indeed a sad announcement and one that was upsetting in many ways. Aperture has been my platform of choice for over seven years, for all my image processing, organising and archiving. Even my video and audio work go through Aperture. The news even resulted in a sleepless night; I must have woken up five times and every time I awoke, I was thinking about how my workflow is going to cope with the loss of my favourite software.
A screenshot of Aperture v3.5.1. Photos © Edmond Terakopian /2014
The announcement from Apple:
“With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture,” Apple said. “When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X.”
The good news is that there’s no need to panic and take immediate action. When Yosemite, the next version of Apple’s OS X is released this coming autumn, I’ve been told that Aperture will be updated to work with it. Also, as the raw updates are OS based, all new raw updates will work within Aperture. What this means is that after launch, Aperture will carry on functioning fully for a 12-18 month period. So no need to panic and take drastic action. The new Photos App is set to release early 2015.
Apple’s new Photos App for OS X Yosemite. Photo: Apple
Apple and Adobe are working together to come up with a way to help Aperture users who wish to move over to Lightroom, the logical choice, to migrate their libraries of images over. However, the biggest problem and one which seems insolvable (at least for now) is that Aperture adjustments won’t translate into Lightroom adjustments. Hopefully all metadata, library structure, versions of files and naturally all the raws will come across ok.
Another upgrade path for those Aperture users who aren’t professional or advanced enthusiasts, is Apple’s own forthcoming Photos App. Certainly the first version of the App seems to be very much consumer. However as Apple updated and upgraded FCP X, maybe Apple will do the same with Photos and it will on later releases have Aperture’s functionality? This is pure speculation and hope on my part.
Personally, my course of action is going to be waiting to see what and how the migration tool(s) will work. I have an Aperture archive of well over half a million images, spanning decades of work, so any decision I make cannot be done lightly and without research. Apart from migrating my libraries of work, I also have to update all of my onsite and offsite backups to work with whatever my new system will be. It’s highly likely to be Lightroom, but it does all depend on how things pan out. It’s worth keeping hold of your Aperture libraries for now, just to see how the Photos App develops; who knows, perhaps future versions will be of professional spec?
I’ll also be writing to Apple to explain why I think dropping Aperture is a bad idea and hope they may reconsider; I would urge others to do so too. You can feedback via this LINK.
Lastly, please share this article to help Aperture users from realising there’s no need to panic and there is time to plan a perfect strategy for each user’s needs.
“Action”. Edmond Terakopian shooting 1 Sixpence 1 Play pinball film. Photo: Magda Rakita
We’re absolutely delighted to share that our short documentary film on pinball is a finalist in the Rode Reel 2014 competition. Our team of Magda Rakita and Neil Patience (TAP TV) would like to thank Rode Microphones and Philip Bloom who was the judge for the category.
We’d like to congratulate all the winners; some exceptional work. You can view the entries HERE.
The film, 1 Sixpence 1 Play, was shot on a pair of Olympus OM-D E-M1 cameras and Olympus lenses. We also used a GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition for a few shots from on the play field. All audio was recorded onto a Roland R26 using various Rode microphones. The films (including the behind the scenes) were edited using FCP X on a Mac Pro, using Eizo monitors and Event Opal audio monitors for the sound edit. For a more detailed post on this, including the behind the scenes video, please see HERE.
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Happy to share that one of my images, “Love Your Job”, was Commended by judges in the Fotoura ISPA 2014, in the black and white section. Congratulations to all the other photographers who were commended and naturally to the winners too.
Love Your Job: A heavy downpour of rain soaks pedestrians as they pass an illuminated advertising sign saying “Love Your Job”. Hammersmith, London. January 14, 2011. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian
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Delighted to announce that eight of my images have become finalists in the TZIPAC Zebra Awards! Always a joy to reach the finals but to have eight images be judged as finalists is astonishing! Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to TZIPAC and the second Zebra Award judges. Much appreciated 🙂
Here are the finalist images:
Incidentally, all shots were shot on Leica cameras; M6, M9 and M (Type 240).
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Astonished and pleased to share that in the 2013 IPA (International Photography Awards) I received six honourable mentions in the One Shot, One World competition.
Here are the six images honoured in the IPA One Shot, One World comeptition:
Street life. Stairs and the businessman. Essex Street, London WC2. February 14, 2013. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
A rider gallops through the lake on her horse. Castle Leslie, Glaslough, Ireland. September 10, 2013. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian
Atmosphere at Gordon’s wine bar (London’s oldest wine bar, established in 1890), 47 Villiers Street, London WC2N. October 01, 2013. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian
A street performer dressed as a telephone box entertains a young passer by. June 27, 2013. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian
The Summer Saunter. A group of bold and independent men led by stylist Timothy Lord and The Chap Magazine’s Albion step out in style in the name of sartorial freedom, from the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral to Mayfair’s Berkeley Square in a demonstration of solidarity with all men who dare to dress differently. London, UK. Toby Pennington at an exhibition by Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Marlborough Contemporary gallery, Albemarle Street, London, where the gentlemen stopped for a Champagne break. July 21, 2013. Photo: Edmond Terakopian July 21, 2013. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
Inside, looking out. Life along London’s South Bank. A waiter at the BFI Riverfront Restaurant rings up a bill on the outside till. September 24, 2013. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian
Photographer’s Note:
The images were shot on Leica M9, Leica M (Type 240) and Olympus OM-D E-M1 cameras. All processing was done on Apple Aperture and the Nik Software Silver Efex Pro plugin.
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