Ben Long

Ben Long

Biography

Ben Long is a freelance writer, photographer, and videographer based in San Francisco. A long-time computer journalist, he has written hundreds of features, reviews, and how-to's for magazines such as Macworld, MacWeek, Macworld UK, MacUser, Computer Graphics World, Maximum PC, and eMediaWeekly. He is currently a Senior Editor for CreativePro.com, where he writes a regular digital photography column. His most recent books include Apple's Pro Training guide for Aperture, Real World Aperture, Getting Started with Camera Raw, and Complete Digital Photography, 3rd edition.

As a photographer and videographer, his clients have included Blue Note Records, 20th Century Fox, the Pickle Circus, Global Business Network, Head Start, the Oklahoma Arts Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts. You can learn more about him and his work at www.completedigitalphotography.com.

Books

The Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i/500D Companion by Ben Long July 2009 Print: $24.99 Ebook: $19.99	The Nikon D90 Companion by Ben Long March 2009 Print: $24.99 Ebook: $19.99
The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Companion by Ben Long November 2008 Print: $24.99 Ebook: $19.99 (4) (Read Reviews)	The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion by Ben Long September 2008 Print: $24.99 Ebook: $19.99 (4) (Read Reviews)

Blog

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Changing Aperture 2.0's Default Raw Converter, March 03 2008
Aperture 2: Tethering, February 25 2008
Aperture 2: Quick Preview, February 18 2008
Whither Primary Select?, February 18 2008
Aperture 2.0 Interface Changes, February 12 2008
One Library To Rule Them All, December 17 2007
One Library To Rule Them All, December 07 2007
Backing Up a Referenced Library, December 03 2007
Backing Up a Referenced Library, December 03 2007
New Camera Support for Tiger Users, November 16 2007
Apple Sneaks In Camera Support in Leopard, November 03 2007
Aperture and Leopard, October 26 2007
New Add-on: Publish for Approval, October 19 2007
Launching a Photoshop Automation From Aperture, October 09 2007
Remote Power, October 02 2007
Two Project Pane Clarifications, September 11 2007
Travelling Without Aperture, September 03 2007
Teaching with Aperture, August 21 2007
Automated Printing via Photoshop, August 14 2007
Flash Album Exporter, August 07 2007
LensTweaker for Optical Corrections, July 20 2007
Highlight Hot Areas Threshold Preference, July 06 2007
Using Automator to Migrate From Adobe Camera Raw to Aperture, June 29 2007
Printing Light Tables, June 25 2007
Light Table Shortcuts, June 14 2007
Learning to Respect the Light Table, June 08 2007
Rotating Multiple Images, May 07 2007
Exporting a Stack Pick, May 04 2007
Multimedia Import, April 30 2007
Folders, March 21 2007
Creating an Aperture Library with Matching Finder Folder Structure, March 08 2007
Re-Installing Aperture, March 05 2007
Keywords and Multiple Libraries, February 21 2007
Simultaneous Card Import, February 14 2007
Better Interapplication Workflow Through Plug-ins, February 06 2007
Learning in Grayscale, January 26 2007
Aperture Library Spanner, January 19 2007
Opening Multiple Projects, January 18 2007
Hiding pictures, January 10 2007
Stack Mode, January 03 2007
Comparing Images, December 27 2006
Aperture Alpha Channel Aberrations, December 13 2006
Abandoning Aperture, December 07 2006
More Renaming, December 02 2006
Renaming Master Files - Part 2, November 22 2006
Renaming Master Files - Part 1, November 15 2006
Additional Raw Support For Aperture, November 07 2006
Portable Library, November 02 2006
HDR and Panoramic Workflow,
Careful Deleting,
Sticky Query Fields,

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