Digital Photography and Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Apple - Profiles - Yann Arthus-Bertrand: "The photographs of Yann Arthus-Bertrand are among the most famous in the world — as a naturalist photographer, he produces sensitive surveys of the world and those who live in it. Photographs of his fellow Frenchmen and women, horses, lions, cats and dogs.

Photographs of the Earth too, taken by Yann as he flies overhead. His “Earth from the Air” shots, like the ‘Heart in Voh’ in the French New Caledonian mangrove forest, have been seen the world over; and his books adorn coffee tables from Cannes to Calcutta.


Today, he works digitally, and has recently started using Apple’s Aperture software to help him realise his digital dreams.

Plumbers, bakers, policemen, prostitutes, designers, the President of France, old bulls and young calves — all have posed against the same background: a simple square of brown canvas that makes all his subjects equal. The photographer is admired by his subjects, who love the way he sees them.

This year, as he has done for the past 15 years, Yann Arthus-Bertrand hung up his huge canvas at the Paris Agricultural Show to photograph the proud people who take part in this annual celebration of the French way of life. A familiar scene. Only this year, things were different for Yann: for him the show was an all-digital affair for the first time.

Digital photography represents a huge leap in the technology behind taking, enhancing and delivering photographs, a leap made easier for Yann by a cutting-edge Apple installation.

Opposite his iconic canvas sits a MacBook Pro, hooked up to a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display. Yann is using a Wi-Fi-enabled Canon camera, which sends the photos directly to the MacBook Pro, letting him see the results immediately.

The files are then transferred via an AirPort Extreme network to a post-production station, where his assistant Erwan Sourget imports the photos into Aperture running on a Power Mac G5 attached to dual 30-inch Cinema Displays for maximum screen real estate."

Quoted from the www.apple.com UK website...

All I can say, is perfect. Using a Mac like that, with the cinema displays, it really couldn't get much better... For all those who shoot landscape photography, take note... the future is here...