© Gunther Deichmann, Cuttlefish Sepia sp. - Alien afternoon...

Hi everybody... I am leaving this afternoon for a short one week trip to Palau to be with my friends and client at Sam's Tours, they are celebrating the Grand Opening for the completely renovated Sam's Tours premisses, the big party is on the 26 of October and I give you a full report with images once I am back next week, but now I have to run hence this Alien afternoon.... so much to do and no time left.
Until soon,
Cheers Gunther

The i-mag Photography Magazine was very quick and published in their current issue a nice article from our GDPhotoWorshop in Siam Reap, Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
The images are from the workshop participants and text by Jun Miranda, including the image from Luis Harder, who won the Apple Aperture software, with his photo of the little boy, the bike against the brown wall. If you like to read the whole story you can download it as a pdf file here located under Publications/Spreads
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/publications.html
For more information or if you like to view some of the images in our Gallery from the participants, please click this link:
http://gdphotoworkshop.com/


The great sunrise shot was taken by no other then Bebet Gaudinez,
the group photo is by my good friend and guide Savuth.

© Gunther Deichmann, Santorini, Greece 2005

You all know how much I love color and contrast! I am very much of a color person, however when you return from a trip like Cambodia, or be more specific Siam Reap and Angkor Wat, you start to think when you look at your images.
All my editing and adjustments are done using Aperture, and after my last trip during the final editing, I thought well, some of these ancient temples and ruins lead themselves more to Black and White.
With Aperture you can try and find the right combination very easy.
OK here we go:
Once you have your Raw files imported you just highlight the image you think could look good in BW, then you go to the adjustment panel click on the one with the + sign and now another panel opens up which contains the Monochrome Mixer, click on that one and there you go BW, but it gets a lot better than this, you have the options just like in the old days with film to experiment with different filters like red, orange, yellow, green and blue, every-time you click on one of these filters the image is changing, now it is up to you what you like best, there are so many more other adjustments you can choose from, this is just a quick way for you to see if the image looks better in Black and White, maybe you like Sepia, it is in the same adjustment panel, again the choice is yours.

I am a color Photographer but I found that some of the images from these ancient ruins look real great if not better in BW, so if you using Aperture give it a try and see what happens, it is so easy but the best part is if you dont like the changes you made your original is all out there in its colorful glory, Aperture never touches your Original. Last but not least, if you like to compare the two images, BW with the color one, then just hit the letter "M" on your keyboard, toggle on and of and see the difference. Please see below some images from the last trip, converted into Black and White, for more images (sorry all in color) please go to my website at: www.deichmann-photo.com
Until next time,
GD

I have marked the area with a red circle and the little marked red + is where
you find all your BW tools, top right hand side on the Adjustment panel.






© Gunther Deichmann, all BW images above, Cambodia 2007

Bebet at Bayon Temple, during our Cambodian
GDPhoto Workshop, September 2007

Bebet caught by my Cell Phone at the Penguin Cafe
Malate, Manila, October 12, 2007

© Gunther Deichmann

A digital experience in Palau Micronesia... very soon.

Here is a very interesting article from my good friend and supporter Tony Wu (Fins Magazine), for our underwater photographers cool info from Tony, please read on below and check out the link for the whole story. By the way, Tony one of the top underwater photographers around these days will be part of my workshop in Palau Micronesia in April 2008, so keep April free around the 22nd., we announce the exact dates later on the GDPhotoWorkshop website under the Calendar section, this will happen very soon, the workshop is at Sam's Tours a member of the Philippine-Micronesia Alliance and the premier dive center in Palau, for this one we have also Ethan Daniels onboard, an underwater photographer and Marine Biologist, so stay tuned and check this and my other blog for the final announcement, thank you.
Dont miss out on this one! You get the best above and below.

Other links related to the workshop in Palau:
GDPhotoWorkshop main site: http://gdphotoworkshop.com
Gunther Deichmann Blog: http://www.deichmann-photo.com/blog.html
Tony Wu website: http://www.tony-wu.com
Sam's Tours Palau: http://www.samstours.com
The Divers Choice: http://www.alliancediving.com


© Tony Wu

Going digital definitely has a lot of merits. Immediate feedback, being able to shoot more than 36 frames at a time, being able to make duplicate/ back-up copies immediately, and having the ability to edit work on-the-spot rank at the top of my list.
Nothing in life, however, comes for free.
If there’s been one major drawback of going digital for me, it has to be the fact that in addition to being a good photographer, you’ve got to become a software and image-processing expert too. Back in the film days, basically a slide was either good or bad. I kept the good ones, threw away the bad ones. End of story.
Over the past few years, with the switch to digital format, I’ve had to experiment with all sorts of software…some good, some bad…and I think I’ve finally begun to reach the point where I have a workflow that I’m comfortable with. Before I spell out the software I use, please read on at: http://www.tonywublog.com/20071009/digital-workflow.html