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Lighting Tip – The Power of Accent Lights

A few loyal readers have sent me emails asking how I lit this image. Originally posted in an article about interpretation of histograms, this kind of lighting set up is typical in lighting workshops that I host. Although I feel that this kind of thing is best seen and experienced hands-on, here is my best quick and to the point description of how this particular image was lit. The main light is to camera right. It is a 3′ x 4′ softbox that positioned very close to the model...

31 October 2008 | Articles, Lighting | , , | 7 Comments
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New Project New Gallery – Ghost Ships

Don’t do many galleries here or for that matter anywhere else. I am experimenting with flickr and flickr integration with WordPress. The last thing I feel like doing is maintaining 62 photo galleries all over the web-o-chaos in addition to real paying jobs so I thought I would share a weird little side project that I have been working on and may actually finish sooner or later.

28 October 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles, Site News | , , , | 3 Comments
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When It Rains It Pours – Actually I Have Major Power Issues

Sorry loyal fans for the all day outage – again. Two all day power failures inside a week. This time I was not so lucky. I lost two 500Gig SATA hard drives one of which wasn’t backed up all the way. You may have noticed that a bunch of articles have the wrong dates, most of the comments are gone, etc. After replacing some hardware it took me about an hour to repost and rebuild as much as I could. Please if you notice any issues let me know,...

28 October 2008 | Site News | 3 Comments
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Aperture 2 vs. Lightroom 2 – Adjustment Presets

I have time for a quick article in the ever popular Aperture 2 versus Lightroom 2 series of comparisons, so I will tackle the simple but thorny subject of image adjustment presets. Both of the applications give you the ability to take a combination of adjustments and apply them to one or more images quickly and efficiently but they do it in different ways. I will give you my best objective view of how both applications work and you decide weather this is an important distinction for you or...

28 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , | 13 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Naming Exported Images

This one is a really quick tip. File this one under the “No Crap, Who Doesn’t Know that..” file if you already know this but I was surprised that I got a few emails asking what I was talking about when I mentioned creating custom file naming conventions and how that can be used to save time when using custom images sequences that I discussed in the last Aperture Quick Tip. So here it is… When exporting image versions from Aperture if you take a look at the dialog...

28 October 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 2 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Custom Image Sequence

This tip is really quick and I assume obvious but I still get dozens of questions that somehow are connected to the sequence or order that Aperture displays in the image browser. I mention in the PDF Aperture Organization Guide that it’s easy to use any order that you want for images in the browser, not just the preset orders provided in the drop down list but literally any order that you want. If you have ever used the sort order drop down in the upper left corner of...

28 October 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Workflow Recipie

A quick description of my personal work-flow using Apple Aperture 2. One of the great things about Aperture is it’s flexibility, also a liability when learning how to use it effectively and efficiently. Aperture’s do anything, anywhere, anytime philosophy can also allow you to make a big mess real quick. Here is the front end of my work-flow for every single thing I shoot. The back end is a whole lot different.

28 October 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Lessons From Other Genres

Way back in the 1990′s I took the plunge and attended a workshop. Not just any workshop, I had this thing in my head that I was going to take a workshop that had nothing to do with commercial photography. After looking through the Woodstock Photographic workshop catalog I settled on one. Unfortunately I had no idea they were impossible to get into if you didn’t sign up and get accepted within the first week that enrollment opened up, March or something like that. Cutting to the chase, I...

04 October 2008 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 0 Comments
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Aperture2 vs. Lightroom2 – Stacks

Stacks in Aperture2 and Lightroom2 are about the only feature that share some functionality and have the same name. Stacks are a way of grouping similar images together. The images can be various versions of the same image taken in the camera, virtual copies (as termed in LR), versions (same thing but Aperture term), or versions that were modified with an external editor/plug-in. Stacks have the same basic functionality in both applications and can more or less do similar jobs. The magic of stacks comes from their interaction with...

04 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Aperture2 vs. Lightroom2 – Aperture Forum Post

Thought some readers here would find my sarcastic but true response to a name redacted poster in the Aperture forum’s post regarding his switch to Lightroom. The really funny part was his response to this sadly Apple deleted it before I could grab it. Knew that would happen that is how you are able to enjoy this part. Original author in normal text – my caviler response in grey italic. RB

03 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , | 4 Comments
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