Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Using iPad as Preview screen when tethering in Aperture

Challenge, You want to have a large preview screen of each shot as you shoot tethering in Aperture.
You may want your subject to see each shot as you take it, you have the thumbnails in Aperture which you can resize.

Tools you will need:
• iPad and Laptop connected to the same wireless network.
• DSLR that can connect via USB that Aperture can tether.
• Air Display software Mac or PC installed on laptop and iPad.



Steps:
Make sure both the Laptop and iPad are connected to wifi.
Purchase Air Display from Android, Amazon or Apple App store.
Install Air Display on your laptop and your ipad.
Actitvate it on your laptop then on the ipad, you can then go to display setup and arrange how you want them.

Once you have your screens setup the iPad can be anywhere to view the current image full screen.


Next step is to launch Aperture then plug your DSLR via USB and choose tether in the file menu

I set the shoot name then click viewer, it will set the current selected image to full screen on the iPad.
if your running Lion OSX set it to full screen.

Slide the zoom on the thumbnails to viewable size and shoot away.





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