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Steve Simon

Biography

Steve Simon is passionate about documenting life through photography, and has been published in Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Life, Colors, German Geo, Le Monde, Walrus and Harpers.

He has four previously published books, Heroines & Heroes: Hope, HIV and Africa (ISBN-88-8158-610-X), The Republicans (ISBN-88-8158-561-8), on the Republican Convention in New York City published by Charta. Healing Waters (ISBN 0-88864-277-6) documenting the healing powers of a small lake in Alberta; and Empty Sky-The Pilgrimage to Ground Zero (ISBN 2-7604-0914-7), an excerpt of which was included in Time-Life’s book The American Spirit, forward by George W. Bush.

You can see more of Steve's work at www.stevesimonphoto.com

Blog

Aperture Makes You Better

May 08 2008

I’ve been shooting for a very long time, and my enthusiasm for photography has only increased since picking up a camera at the age of 12 and somehow convincing my parents I can use the second bathroom as a darkroom.... read more

Go further...

April 30 2008

The Aperture Adjustments sliders give you a wide range of control for fixing most images well within the range of the slider. It doesn’t happen very often, but there are times when you’ve moved the slider to the far left.... read more

Tethering with Aperture, Fun and Easy

April 24 2008

I wanted to demonstrate some different flash effects in the class I teach, bounce, direct, off-camera, side light, scary light from below, etc., and I planned to photograph a student and import the images into Aperture to talk about the.... read more

Aperture Loves Keynote

April 17 2008

Further to Ellen’s post, in the past I've used Keynote for all my presentations, but as you may have read from previous posts, I’m really digging Aperture as a presentation tool. I’m visiting a bunch of Photography Schools across the.... read more

A new era in photography

April 10 2008

Are we entering a new era in photography? I’ve been using a loaner Nikon D3 and its ability to render reality in low light/high ISO situations is, in my opinion, extraordinary. It is simply the best camera I have ever.... read more

Slideshow Preset Solution

April 04 2008

I learned a lesson the hard way about setting up slideshow presets in Aperture. But thankfully there is a solution to pass along here. I was making a presentation as part of Aperture’s Education Tour, which makes its way to.... read more

Vibrancy

March 27 2008

Recently back from Africa and the one new control that I’m really liking to finesse my images is the Vibrancy slider, in the Enhance Set of adjustments. We used to have just Saturation which meant punching up or taking away.... read more

Deleting With Confidence

March 20 2008

I know photographers who delete in the field, trimming down the images on their card by reviewing what they shot on the back of the camera and getting rid of what they don’t like. I probably have the opposite philosophy... read more

Speed and Web Galleries For Teaching

March 06 2008

Okay, it really works. I needed to quickly go through 11,232 RAW images to pick out some personal photos I promised to print for people before my Friday trip to Kigali. In Aperture 2.0 using Quick View, I was able... read more

Aperture 2.0.1 Update

March 04 2008

Through Software Update or on the Aperture Downloads page, you will find an update to Aperture 2.0 that Apple recommends for all Aperture users. “Aperture 2.0.1 addresses issues related to the performance and overall stability of Aperture 2. The update... read more

All Projects View

February 28 2008

One of the great new features that make the whole post-process and organizing in Aperture 2.0 so much better is the "All Projects" view. I am in a perpetual state of organization. Like many of us, I want to be... read more

New Tools For Image Rescue

February 21 2008

The current thinking of exposing to the right of the histogram means if you overexpose just a little, you’ll be able to recover highlights, and have more detail and less noise in the shadow areas. There are so many reasons... read more

Edit Quickly While Exporting

February 14 2008

It has been a long time coming and I am thrilled that I can now bring my D300 files into their Aperture Home, and a newly renovated home it is. With all the new stuff in Aperture 2.0, I figure... read more

Help?!

February 12 2008

Okay, not sure if this is just me, my system or my little dark Charlie Brown cloud that is following me around, but when I ask Apple to send me a serial number to open my freshly downloaded Aperture 2.0... read more

Key For The Future

February 07 2008

For the longest time, I've wanted to figure out the best way to add keywords to my extensive library. I know in theory how to do it, but I have never actually made a concentrated effort to use this very... read more
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