Apple Aperture Won’t Work Anymore After macOS Mojave

Apple killed off Aperture back in 2014, but there are still photographers out there who have opted to continue using the beloved photo editing and management app. If that’s you, there’s some bad news: Aperture will no longer run on Mac after macOS Mojave.

In a new article on its support page, Apple reveals that Aperture’s compatibility with Mac is coming to an end after this latest major release that was launched in September 2018. The article provides details on how Aperture users can migrate their photo libraries to Apple Photos or Adobe Lightroom.

“In June 2014, Apple announced the discontinuation of development of Aperture,” Apple writes. “Since that time, Apple has released five major macOS updates.

“For technical reasons, Aperture will not run in future versions of macOS after macOS Mojave. To continue working with your Aperture photo libraries, you must migrate them to the Photos app included with macOS, or migrate them to Adobe Lightroom Classic.”

“As part of the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit, certain media files created using older formats or codecs will also be incompatible with future versions of macOS after macOS Mojave,” notes MacRumors, which first spotted the new support page.

If you have Lightroom Classic v5.7 or later, there’s a built-in tool that allows you to easily migrate Aperture libraries to Lightroom catalogs. Your library organization, metadata, and image adjustments should be preserved through the transition (with some exceptions).

The next version of macOS hasn’t even been announced yet, so you still have some time to get things figured out. You could also choose to stay on macOS Mojave instead of updating to the next version when it’s released, but that’s what you’ll need to do moving forward if you’re that committed to Aperture.

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Photos of Tulip Season in the Netherlands

Every year close to 1.5 million tourists visit the famous Dutch flower garden “de Keukenhof.” This garden is beautiful, but the real beauty can be seen in the endless tulip fields in the countryside.

As a local I love to shoot the tulips again every year. I can always find new angles and new conditions to shoot. It’s very addicting.

Here’s a series of pictures and a short film that I took during this year’s season. Fun fact: the fields are not at the exact location every year. Why? You can’t grow the same flower two years in a row, so the fields always slightly change. This year we had some beautiful fields perfectly lined up with windmills, making it possible to finally get some of my dream tulip shots.

This short film was shot in the season of 2019 in areas of North Holland and Flevoland:

Tips for photographing the tulips:

• Use a wide variety of lenses from very wide (14mm) to extreme zooms and fast primes. You can really photograph the tulips in so many different ways.
• I love shooting wide and getting very close and low to the tulips. With the help of focus stacking, I get everything in focus from front to back. This can be tricky when it’s windy.
• Increase your ISO a bit when you’re shooting the tulips with a sunset, especially when it’s windy. They easily get unsharp when shooting with a high f-stop.
• Look for out of the ordinary tulips and photograph them with a zoom or macro lens with soft focus.
• Try to match the sky with the colors of the tulips. In tulip fields, you often have lots of tulips to choose from so you can match them up with the sky using a complementary color palette.
• Drones are amazing these days. Shooting top down allows you to get some beautiful abstract shots.
• Try portrait orientation sometimes. It allows you to get more depth into an image.

These shots were all shot during this year’s tulip season.

Photography tourism is increasing rapidly over the years. A few years ago, there were hardly any people in the countryside, but especially this year I noticed it’s getting crowded. People from all over the world come to see and photograph our tulips.

It’s highly important that everyone is very careful with the flowers. Don’t take them, don’t crush them. If a field is fenced, don’t cross the fence. They’re simple rules but lots of people today do anything to take a selfie. All the above shots were taken on fields from local farmers that I personally know.

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About the author: Albert Dros is an award-winning Dutch photographer. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. His work has been published by some of the world’s biggest media channels, including TIME, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, and National Geographic. You can find more of his work on his website, or by following him on Facebook and Instagram.

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Deafening Sound: An Important Look at Gender Based Violence

“I don’t know how your mind changes after being raped,” says Annie Flanagan when asked about the mental impact of their college rape. They continue, “that’s fucking impossible for me to pinpoint and not so simple for words.” But, as artists, we turn our pain into creativity. So, to process their trauma, Annie picked up the camera. Looking to connect with people who shared a story similar to theirs, they began the project, Deafening Sound. Following the lives of women recovering from abuse, they highlight a reality that is difficult to digest. But this is important work and something many of us can learn from.

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The ZEISS Ventum 21mm f2.8 has a Sony E Mount for Drone Use

If you dabble in drone photography for all kinds industrial purposes, you might benefit from the latest offering by ZEISS. Given the many industrial applications of drone cameras today, the company has responded with the Ventum 2.8/21, a new lightweight industrial lens especially made for use with drones. This wide-angle E-mount lens for full-format cameras promises outstanding optical quality in a compact and rugged aluminum package.

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What Do You Do When Your Client Would Rather Remove Your Image than Credit You?

Chasing clients to ensure I am properly credited for my work takes up more of my time than I care to admit. It’s frustrating to see my images used without due recognition, but none more so than this particular incident in which a relatively well-known musician’s team seemed to prefer removing the image from Instagram entirely, rather than simply adding my handle to the caption.

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