Important Photo Workshop updates and information.

© Gunther Deichmann, Palau, Micronesia
the Pearls of the Pacific

© Gunther Deichmann, Tibet 2006,
more images on Tibet at:
www.deichmann-photo.com

I just like to remind everyone that we are taking bookings NOW for the workshops in Cambodia (February) and Palau (April)at Sam's Tours please make sure you book early there are only limited vacancies available, which brings me to the workshop in Tibet (July/August) if you interested in joining this one please advise us by no later than April due the complex travel arrangements, we post all the final details by end of January, however you can fill out the booking form provided on the GDPhotoWorkshop site without any obligations now, this will secure you a place for Tibet. The cost for the Cambodian workshop is approximately the same as the one we have conducted earlier in September 2007, you can use this as a good guide, again you can do some pre-bookings now, we will be using the same Hotel, The Heritage Suite Hotel in Siam Reap.
All the details for the workshop in Palau will be posted by latest December 2007.
Due to a major international conference on environmental issues and poor bookings unfortunately we had to cancel the Bali Workshop, sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.

For Information from my last trip to Palau, Micronesia please go to my Blog at: http://www.deichmann-photo.com/blog.html

© Gunther Deichmann, Stock Photography

All future workshops include from now on the use and implementation of external image storage, using Aperture and PhotoShelter, keep your images away from home and safe without spending a lot of money, the future is here with companies like PhotoShelter and others, but more on this subject later, other subjects include marketing and selling of your images and creating cool looking websites with your own Blog and Podcast.
For example... I have returned from Palau only four days ago, but have edited, corrected (very little) prepared the images for shipping to my client and uploaded all the latest images, nearly done, on my PhotoShelter archive, oh I forgot, had an Aperture Web Gallery up and running right after the day I got back, not bad if you consider I had to go through 1500 different images, inclusive of captioning and keywords which I guess takes up most of the time.

© Gunther Deichmann, Palau, Micronesia
I found myself one night at the Palau Basketball court,
supporting the team of Sam's Tours, "The Sharks"
This little girl was running in circles on the matt next to
the court, by the way the Sharks won the Game that night.


© Gunther Deichmann, Palau, Micronesia
the Pearls of the Pacific,sunset at the
Palau Pacific Resort


© Gunther Deichmann, Aperture the software
for professional Photographers

In travel photography keywords are a lot more difficult to apply, well Aperture makes it easy, but it is not like in a studio environment, in travel photography there are so many different subjects and situations almost every shot is different, but you need keywords if you want to sell them later, this is a necessary evil if you like it or not, In any case it is a lot easier now with Aperture, before It would have taken me a week or more to go through all of this pile, not to mention the mounting and getting sore eyes from the light-box, besides they do help you a lot in finding things in a hurry, when ever you looking for that particular shot.
Like to know how to create some cool looking slide shows and Keynote presentations, well I can run that by you too, check out the most recent Podcast
created in GarageBand please click this link.

Cheers GD