Baltic Blast:TM Macmaniatm 3.5 Concurrent With

June 30–July 10,2005 ® Baltic Blast:TM MacManiaTM 3.5 concurrent with

TM Enrich your mind in the Northern Light glow of the midnight sun … permit yourself A Digital Camera Workshop to be pampered,body, mind,and soul … unwind in the romantic Baltic aboard a luxurious cruise ship … come along with us! ▼ el ehr,i tchl,on July 6. in Stockholm, We’ll be here, TOWARD MAC OS XX It took Apple 17 years to get us from System 1.0 to Mac OS X … from128K of Baltic Blast:MacMania3.5 memory to 128 megs … from a 400K disks to 40 gigabytes.What will the Mac look like in another 17 years? In this half-crazy,half-serious presenta- You may choose any combination of full-day, Creating Practical Projects with iMovie iMovie in Real Time (quarter day) tion,David Pogue takes af unny,whirlwind half-day,or quarter-day seminars for a total of (half day) Speaker:David Pogue look back at Apple’s greatest (and dimmest) two (2.5) days’worth of sessions.The conference Speaker:Christopher Breen moments … pauses to analyze the fee is $595 and includes all courses*,course This one is really a blast.Armed with a cam- promise and perils of Mac OS X … and materials,and the Bon Voyage Cocktail Party. iMovie is a terrific tool for making home movies, corder and a laptop,David Pogue (author of the then fast-forwards to 2020 to imagine but beneath its gentle exterior is a reasonably bestselling iMovie & iDVD:The Missing Manual) *NOTE: The Northern Light Digital Photography what Apple — and Microsoft — might- powerful video editor that’s capable of creating will attempt to make a complete digital movie, bring us on the road to Mac OS XX. Workshop (taking place in the evenings during professional-looking instructional videos.In complete with dialogue,characters,sound our crusie) is independent of Baltic Blast — this session you’ll learn how to put together effects,and music,using good-natured audi- Told through photos,movies,and even Northern Light Seminars (see adjoining page) such a video with the help of your camcorder, ence members as actors.In the process,you’ll songs at the piano,this is a tale you’ve cannot be counted toward your Baltic Blast 2.5- digital camera,iPhoto,iTunes,GarageBand,and learn the essentials of digital moviemaking, never before heard told quite this way. day conference total.But,in addition to the a couple of inexpensive third-party utilities. including music,effects,and,of course,techni- Baltic Blast offerings,Baltic Blast attendees may The session will cover planning and scripting, cal workarounds;the results can be exported opt to attend the Northern Light Digital asset acquisition and management,basic and as a QuickTime film,posted on the Web,or Photography Seminars,in the early evenings,for advanced iMovie editing techniques,proper burned onto an actual DVD.This session will More Mac DVD Magic (quarter day) a fee.Individual seminars can be taken for $149 use of effects and transitions,narration tips, focus not just on iMovie and your camcorder, Speaker: Jason Snell (per four-hour/two-day seminar).The confer- and preparation of your iMovie for distribution but the Hollywood techniques that separate ence fee for all three Northern Light Seminars is to the web,disc,and across a network. amateur camcorder and production work from The Mac’s the prime DVD-creation platform, $395.The Visby Fieldtrips are $149 each. polished,professional efforts.Be prepared to but what if you want to go beyond the basics be educated,entertained — and filmed. of iMovie and iDVD? Apple’s DVD Studio Pro iTunes, uTunes,We All Croon for iTunes lets regular people make Hollywood-class He’ll even post the finished movie on his (quarter day) Playing With the GarageBand (half day) Website for attendees to show off after their DVDs.This session will give you tips on video compression,designing interfaces and burning Speaker:Christopher Breen,w/ David Pogue Speaker:Christopher Breen return home! discs using DVD Studio Pro,choosing DVD-R This session will examine the core elements of In this session we’ll explore the many faces of media,and more. iTunes — music player,audio converter,music Apple’s entry-level music application, Inside iPhoto — and Way,Way Beyond manager,Internet radio receiver,and network GarageBand — loops,software instruments (half day) (MIDI),real instruments (digital audio),and jukebox.In addition to unraveling all that is effects.In this session,you’ll learn how to con- iTunes,we’ll take a side trip to the iTunes Music Speaker:David Pogue Store and cock a keen eye at utilities that can Working with Your figure your Mac to record with the built-in Maybe you’ve already mastered your digital enhance the iTunes experience — third-party instruments as well as capture your voice and camera,and even filled its memory card with Digital Photos and Photoshop music encoders and helpful AppleScripts. such real instruments as guitar and bass. photos from your cruise.Now what? Additionally,you’ll learn how to find your way around the GarageBand interface,create sim- In this tippy,tricky session,David Pogue,author iPod Supersession (quarter day) of iPhoto:The Missing Manual, takes you far ple arrangements with the included loops, Essential Photo Optimizing — deeper into iPhoto than you’ve thought it pos- muck with your music with the built-in editor, Speaker:Christopher Breen Getting it Right (half day) sible to go.He shows you how to master the mix your composition,export it to another The iPod is far more than this century’s Sony underlying folder structure of iPhoto’s digital Speaker:Jack Davis application,and incorporate your finished Walkman.Beyond its abilities to store and play shoebox on your hard drive,making it possible work into an iPhoto slide show and iMovie. The experienced user knows there are a million weeks of music,the iPod is a personal informa- to back up,split,and merge photo libraries; tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for max- tion manager and digital wallet.In this session how to use plug-ins and add-ons to bolster imum impact,but which ones work best,work we’ll look at all things iPod and examine its iPhoto’s printing,Web-page export,and email- fastest,and are most “photographer friendly”? GarageBand and Beyond (half day) ing features;how to modify the layouts of relationship with iTunes (and how to make the In this session you will learn all sorts of work- most of that relationship by constructing playlists iPhoto’s spectacular photo books;and enough Speaker:Christopher Breen flow-enhancing techniques including:101 uses for managing a massive music collection). additional tips and tricks to make give you the for Auto Levels,how to create nondestructive This session begins by offering techniques for We’ll offer techniques for getting the most life digital-photography bug worse than you’ve dodge and burn layers,advanced gray-scale tweaking your compositions within out of your iPod and discuss ways to deal with ever had it before. conversions,eyedropper color correcting, GarageBand.We’ll dive into the finer points of the device when the music inexplicably stops. MIDI- and audio editing,learn about the Best of all,he’ll show you how to use iPhoto stained-teeth whitening,red-eye neutralizing, advantages of editing controller data,and and Photoshop as springboards to do more blotchy-skin unifying,and the only way to use with your photos:edit and crop them for the mutate the built-in effects in musical (and Inside Mac OS X “Tiger” (half day) Photoshop’s healing brush — all with an not-so-musical) ways.We’ll also discuss meth- greatest impact,create Web-page galleries of emphasis on quality,flexibility,and speed. them,build musical slide shows on DVD for ods for overcoming GarageBand’s import and Speaker:David Pogue unforgettable gifts,and much more. • Which editing tools are best to use when export limitations — providing tips for Join this highly entertaining session as NY Times fixing images — and which ones to avoid. importing music files not originally intended columnist David Pogue makes Apple’s newest Mac • Quick tone and color adjustments that leave for GarageBand as well as adding third-party OS X operating system — Tiger version 10.4 Mac DVD Magic (quarter day) your original image intact loops and instruments to the program.We’ll — sing,dance,and walk on its head.Witness a • How to quickly fix under and over exposed step out of the garage to see how GarageBand parade of undocumented shortcuts,decipher Speaker:Jason Snell images using Photoshop features like the unfamiliar Mac OS X folder structure,and dis- can interact with other music applications Whether you’ve got a digital camcorder or just Shadow/Highlight. cover the power of the Unix system that powers such as Propellerhead’s Reason and Apple’s a stack of old videotapes,it’s time to make the • Creating nondestructive,fast,and flexible the whole thing.Based on his book Mac OS X: Logic Express and Logic Audio.Throughout the move to DVD — and no computer burns DVDs repair layers for fixing,dodging and burning, The Missing Manual,Tiger Edition,this session is, session you’ll learn something of what it takes better than the Mac.From the basics of con- and color correcting. in particular,a life preserver tossed to anyone to make a piece of music “musical.” verting old analog videotapes to digital format • Simplified levels,curves,and sharpening who’s interested in finding out which of the to getting pro-quality results out of Apple’s techniques 150 new Tiger features are worth learning,and low-cost iDVD,we’ll get you burning DVDs in • Advanced gray-scale conversions using which old features wound up in new places. no time. Channel Mixer NOTE: Baltic Blast attendees may ☞Northern Light participate in Northern Light Seminars 1, 2, and 3 for a Join master photographer Bill Durrence of Blue SEMINAR 2: Making Better Photographs pictures.Digital workflow — the process of • conference fee of $395,or Pixel in a modular course on digital photography. digital photography from click to display — is Monday,July 4 (6pm–8pm) and This workshop presents three digital photography our focus in this seminar. • individually for $149 Tuesday,July 5 (6pm–8pm) seminars in a well-crafted sequential workflow. We will discuss the essentials of a good work- per seminar. Each four-hour seminar stands on its own,and How do you put a little bit of soul into your flow that allows us to work smoothly and effi- provides an integral building block of your digital pictures? Having control of your equipment is Photography:“Art and ciently,producing the best results for output photography skills. necessary,but only the first step. Craft” seminar is open to while maintaining control of,preservation of, all and there is no charge. Northern Light attendees may participate in In this seminar we will discuss how to move and access to our image files. beyond technically well-executed documenta- • Northern Light Seminars 1,2,and 3 for a • Good image capture tion photography to exciting images that allow • conference fee of $595,or • Downloading and organizing files us to share,in an artful and interesting way, • individual seminars for $249 per seminar. • Asset management the experience of the moment we chose to • Archiving record. • Cataloging Extending iMovie … and Beyond! Photography: Art and Craft • Human vs.camera vision • Color management (quarter day) • Perspective and point of view • Monitor calibration and profiling Friday,July 1 (90 minutes) Speaker:Jason Snell • Camera position and lens choice • Understanding color spaces (This session is open to all Baltic Blast atten- • Understanding the frame • Basic editing techniques iMovie is a powerful tool,but it’s just the dees.) • Organizing the visual elements • Prepping for good output beginning.Get a peek at all the great available • Keep it simple • Saving your work iMovie add-ons that can take your iMovies to What does it take to make great pictures? Bill • Design tools for “drawing”the photograph • Sizing the next level — effects plug-ins,titling apps, Durrence demystifies the process for you.We’ll • Clues to three-dimensionality • Sharpening cool Photoshop tricks,hardware gadgets,and survey the digital photography terrain in an • Exploring the subject • Printer dialogue boxes for best results more! Plus for those who really want to push overview of the topics and key concepts we • Photographing people • Using printer profiles the envelope,get a crash course in Apple’s will be covering in the more extensive classes • Travel photography techniques Final Cut Express. the rest of the week. • Close Up photography techniques • What makes an effective photograph Wrap Up: Putting It All Together • The importance of a well organized workflow (Open to all Northern Light participants) OPEN TO BALTIC BLAST and SEMINAR 3: Digital Workflow Saturday,July 9 (6pm–7:30pm) NORTHERN LIGHT ATTENDEES Wednesday,July 6 (6pm–8pm) and SEMINAR 1: Light, Camera, Action We’ll cover take-away points on cameras,com- Thursday,July 7 (6pm–8pm) position,and preserving your images.In addi- Friday,July 1 (6pm–8pm) and You’ve captured images in your camera.Now tion,Bill Durrence will discuss,in brief,“the Saturday,July 2 (6pm–8pm) Creative Photo Enhancing — Going what? Digital photography has given us some Rules”,and how and when to break the rules. Light is the primary subject of all of our photo- wonderful tools for improving our photo- Beyond the Capture (half day) After a week of digital photography in splen- graphs.In this illuminating,four-hour seminar, graphic skills and output.At the same time it did surroundings,we’ll submit samples of our Speaker:Jack Davis we’ll discuss the properties of light and how to has added a number of new technical issues work to the group,and Bill will offer his com- use an understanding of light plus the various we must learn to manage in order to enjoy our Here is a session to help you get especially cre- ments and hints on further refining our work. ative in the “digital darkroom.”Sometimes your camera controls and features to produce a photographs have a strong subject but lack the technically proficient photograph. unique “execution”that will allow that subject • Understanding the properties of light to shine.And how do you go beyond what was • Effective use of traditional camera controls captured to communicate what was experienced? • Metering and exposure In this session techniques will be demonstrated • F stop/depth of field that can exaggerate,enhance,and elaborate • Shutter speed/motion control on the concept of an image while minimizing • ISO unwanted distractions — from creative focus- • Understanding digital camera menus Visby Field Trips ing to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand • Resolution coloring — all using layers,masks,clipping • File format and JPEG compression Attendance is limited to 10 people and participation is only open to those groups,adjustment layers,layer styles,and • White balance taking at least one Northern Light seminar.The Field trips are $149 each. advanced blending techniques. • Tone control • How to create stunning dark room effects • Sharpening Photographing Urban Landscapes Closeup Photography using layers,adjustment layers,and filters • Putting it all together when shooting pictures Thursday,July 7 (8am–10am) Thursday,July 7 (10:30am–Noon) • Creating soft focus and density effects • Focusing attention by changing the focus of Enjoy the morning light and join Bill Durrence Visby’s DBW Botanical Garden and the streets an image after the fact as he shares techniques,tips,and tricks of pho- of Visby are our workshop for a tutorial on • Quick and easy framing and tinting techniques tographing urban landscapes in this roving, closeup photography.Bill Durrence will cover to tie disparate images together hands-on tutorial.The ring wall and historic approaches to optimizing closeup photo- • How to composite panoramas and multiple streets of the UNESCO World Heritage Site city graphs,and give us artistic and technical image collages of Visby are our laboratory. pearls for capturing fine images. • Hand coloring and tinting effects PRICING AND BOOKING INFORMATION

Course Fees: $149–$595 (see inside for DAY PORT ARRIVE DEPART details).Only passengers booked through Geek Cruises will be admitted. Thursday, June 30 Depart Copenhagen — 5:00PM 7:15PM, Bon Voyage Cocktail Party Deposit: $600 per person,due at time of Friday, July 1 Cruising the Baltic — — booking. Cabin Type Cruise Rate (per person) Saturday, July 2 Tallinn, Estonia 8:00AM 6:00PM Better Inside $1,799 (GS,* available) Standard Outside $1,999 (GS,* available) Sunday, July 3 St.Petersburg/Moscow 7:00AM — <— Overnight in St.Petersburg Better Outside $2,099 (GS,* available) Monday, July 4 St.Petersburg/Moscow — 6:00PM Outside w/ Verandah $2,399 (GS,* available) Mini Suite $2,699 Tuesday, July 5 Helsinki, Finland 6:00AM 6:00PM Superior Suite $3,999 Full Suite $5,199 Wednesday, July 6 Stockholm, Sweden 8:00AM 6:00PM 3rd and/or 4th Person Rate: ages 2 and Thursday, July 7 Visby, Sweden 7:00AM 2:00PM Visby Field Trips older,$1,099;under 2 years old,$499. Single Occupancy: 150% for Insides and Friday, July 8 Warnemunde, Germany 7:00AM 11:00PM <— The port of Berlin, Germany Outsides; 200% for cabins with verandahs. Saturday, July 9 At Sea — — Port Charges and Taxes: $277 per person (subject to minor change). Sunday, July 10 Copenhagen, Denmark 7:00AM — Full payment is due on March 15, 2005 (or,if you book after March 1,at the time of DAY BALTIC BLAST SESSIONS NORTHERN LIGHT SESSIONS booking). Foreign Shipping Fees and Additional Thursday, June 30 Payment Information: There is a foreign shipping charge (for the tickets) of $60 per for- Friday, July 1 8:30AM – 5:30PM 6:00PM – 8:00PM;Seminar 1:Light,Camera,Action (Part 1) eign residence ($35 per Canadian residence). There is a $25 charge for returned checks. Saturday, July 2 6:00PM – 8:00PM;Seminar 1:Light,Camera,Action (Part 2) Air Add-ons: Airfare from most major cities is Sunday, July 3 available through the cruise line.You can call our office for this pricing.(These rates include Monday, July 4 6:00PM – 8:00PM;Seminar 2:Making Better Photographs (Part 1) transfers to/from the dock/airport.) Tuesday, July 5 6:00PM – 8:00PM;Seminar 2:Making Better Photographs (Part 2) Pre- and Post-cruise Hotel Stays: Sightsee Copenhagen! The hotel will be close to the dock. Wednesday, July 6 6:00PM – 8:00PM;Seminar 3:Digital Workflow (Part 1) If we book your Copenhagen hotel,transfers from the hotel to the dock are included. Thursday, July 7 2:00PM – 7:00PM 6:00PM – 8:00PM;Seminar 3:Digital Workflow (Part 2) 1 Night 2 Nights 3 Nights Friday, July 8 Shared Double $190 $330 $470 Single Occupancy $320 $600 $880 Saturday, July 9 8:30AM – 5:30PM 3rd Person $95 $140 $185 Physically challenged available SPECIAL: Rock Bottom Leadership *Guaranteed Share (GS) Fares: This plan is for passengers who are coming on a Geek Speaker:Martin Hedley Helsinki Cruise by themselves and wish to share a cabin Whether you run a company,family,or with another Geek Cruises passenger (of the St. Petersburg community organization your ability to (Moscow) same gender) in an inside or outside cabin Stockholm Tallinn lead is crucial.In this seminar,Martin only.The prices are the same as the per person Hedley,a Chief Operating Officer and Mac double occupancy rates.Share Passengers who Fanatic who has worked with leadership smoke are not to do so in the cabin,unless Visby development for 20 years,will show you okayed by fellow roommates.We try to match COPENHAGEN the results of recent research — data that passengers with someone close in age,when- will blow your current ideas of leadership ever possible.Note:Holland America will not development out of the water.Learn: accept any booking unless a fully completed Reservation Form is accompanied with a per- • the 16 competencies that really matter person deposit: • the five fatal flaws • the two stages of leadership development Book Baltic Blast online: Warnemünde • how much the bottom 20% is costing you http://www.geekcruises.com/booking/ • what competencies you need to develop bb01_booking.htm Book Northern Light online: If you’re nice,he’ll give you a personal 30 http://www.geekcruises.com/booking/ minute coaching session that fits your needs precisely (not nice — 60 minutes). nl01_booking.htm Geek Cruises,Inc. 215-519-0141 cell 1430 Parkinson Avenue 928-396-2102 fax Palo Alto,CA 94301 [email protected] ® 650-327-3692 CST# 2065380-40