Mac Create Blog

MacCreate will be on hand for the first part of SXSW Interactive in Austin. Send us a tweet @maccreate if you’re coming.We’re involved in the Mobile Social, the big bicycle-ride/party/schwag giveaway that’s produced by Bike Hugger. Join the MacCreate crew as we help host the best gathering at SXSW. Details about this killer event are ... read more
March 10, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

I had to take a mis-ordered shipment to B&H today to return the gear and get a credit, and after I did I (of course) walked around the store for a while. Somehow I managed to leave there with a Nikkor 14-24 f/2.8 lens for our test lab, and a D-700-vertical release/battery pack. We’re looking ... read more
March 10, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

I had to take a mis-ordered shipment to B&H today to return the gear and get a credit, and after I did I (of course) walked around the store for a while. Somehow I managed to leave there with a Nikkor 14-24 f/2.8 lens for our test lab, and a D-700-vertical release/battery pack. We’re looking ... read more
March 10, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

We had a number of request for an online Buy and Sell forum on our site, and we’ve just added that to community.maccreate.com. Looking to sell your gear? Looking for an out-of-stock antique lens for your camera? Use our forums to connect to photographers.read more
March 8, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

We’re doing a bit of housekeeping tonight, changing the category structure of of the Aperture site to be more function-focused. As a result, thing might be a bit odd looking on the site tonight as categories appear and disappear.read more
March 7, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

My father was a commercial photographers in the late 60’s and early 70’s, so I was only slightly surprised to find this magazine from 1972 in some of his tear-sheets when I was recently cleaning up his archives.Not a lot in here about digital, but if you look in here (aside from the film ... read more
March 3, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

When we relaunched the MacCreate site months ago, we began using a technology called BuddyPress for our community forums. A direct link-in to Wordpress (which powers this site) BuddyPress had some great promise. It also has vastly large holes for spammers, something the develoeprs keep saying will be addressed with each revision, but to date ... read more
February 28, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

Please accept our apologies if you were keen on using the Community site today. We will be doing a full overhaul of the Community site today, which should mean some downtime. Once we are back up and running, you will have a much better experience due to our brand new forums system!
So, please be patient. ... read more
February 27, 2010 in Uncategorized by Micah Walter

If you were trying to hit our site on Thursday and it wasn’t working it’s because we were hit with a rather massive Denial of Service attack. g the servers to their knees.These attacks are just floods of bogus requests to a server that brings it to its knees, usually just to piss off ... read more
February 26, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

Yesterday was the first time since I got to Vancouver that I had some time off. I hooked up with my colleague Byron from BikeHugger who was out to cover the bike scene surrounding the Olympic games and he introduced me to Kris Krug, international alt-media (the term for the journalists covering non-mainstream-media political issues). ... read more
February 15, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

For the next nine days I have the pleasure of working my second Olympics, embedded with Apple in the Main Press Center’s photographic work room.
Note to self: do not use Babelfish to translate English to Russian and vice-versa. It’s actually better to not be able to translate things than to read the butchered results. ... read more
February 12, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

You’ve probably noticed that Aperture 3 was released today. You’ve probably also noticed that we were the only site on the planet with actual content at launch.
We’ve been fortunate enough to work with the incredibly stellar Aperture team at Apple for years now (hats off to Martin, Joe and Kirk— this is a great day ... read more
February 9, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

Some of you will have noticed our new look by now- we have rolled it out on MacCreate.com’s home page. That landin page used to be a series of boxes with just a list of articles, now it’s a look at our entire network. You can access all parts of the site and it pulls ... read more
February 8, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

Okay, so I’m ga-ga over the iPad. There are a few things i wish it had (camera, GPS) that would really help with some app ideas I’ve had for a while, but the idea of the iPad is driving me nuts. I’m probably going to get rid of my 13" MacBook Pro and use a ... read more
January 30, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss

To better deal with the massive, massive files we’ve been generating in a new photographer workflow video series we’re creating on a Canon 7D, (we shot more than 80GB of video on one day of a two day shoot and have been editing that in a number of programs), we just bought some RAM to ... read more
January 23, 2010 in Uncategorized by David Schloss