I think it’s a must if you want to really explore photo retouching on a tablet. It’s way more accurate than I was expecting and I like the pressure sensitivity. The pencil was really a nice surprise, honestly, I didn’t miss my Wacom tablet once. I had to watch a few basic video tutorials at first but then I became really fast using the Pencil and Affinity on the iPad. I usually work with Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop on my Macbook Pro, but I found it quite easy to get from the Adobe ecosystem to Affinity Photo on iPad. After that Affinity Photo can open them directly. It saved me a lot of time and space to skip the initial copy and only transfer the files I was going to work on. Then I could review all the photos directly from the camera on the iPad screen without copying them.
I used the app Canon Camera Connect and it created a direct connection between the camera and the tablet via WiFi, so it’s an entirely wireless process. I didn’t expect how easy it would be to get the RAW files from the Canon 5D Mark IV to the iPad Pro. So I drove North-West from Reykjavik to Snæfellsnes which is like a little Iceland by itself as you have a lot of different sceneries within that single Peninsula. That’s why these kind of photography trips are so very important to me.” The tripĪs it was not my first time in Iceland during the winter, I had a pretty good idea of the places I wanted to see-I knew South was a ‘no-go’ because that’s where you have most of the tourists and I was looking for something more deserted and wild. “As a freelance photographer, I think it is important to get a healthy balance between both commissioned and personal projects to better develop your own work without any client constraints. I was looking for an extremely minimalist landscape, that is out of this world. Those images will be part of a new fine art collection that I hope to exhibit soon. That’s why those kind of photography trips are so very important to me. As a freelance photographer, I think it is important to get a healthy balance between both commissioned and personal projects to better develop your own work without any client constraints.
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Here Xavier reveals more about his trip, which took place earlier this year, and how he got on editing on the road using Affinity Photo for the first time on an iPad.Īt the end of February, I spent 12 days around Iceland in order to create a new series of photographs representing those dramatic winter landscapes you can only get in that part of the world. So when he approached us wanting to try out Affinity Photo for iPad for his latest trip to Iceland, we were keen for him to document his experience. His work first caught our eye early last year when we came across his Glow series, a neon-lit personal project in which Xavier travelled the world capturing the glow of various cities at night. In 2012, he made the bold decision to leave his career as a developer working for Bose Europe to go it alone and follow his passion for imagery and photography. He is entirely self-taught and originally started his career as a web developer. Meet Xavier Portela, a Belgo-Portuguese creative director currently based in Brussels. He explains how travelling light turned out to be the perfect decision… Using Affinity Photo for the first time, Xavier Portela embarked on his latest trip to Iceland armed with only his photography equipment and an iPad, leaving his usual laptop set up behind.
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