This post is for Scott over on the Nikonians site. It’s a quick and dirty way to get tethered shooting working with the D3X and LR2 until Adobe has support for the camera RAW. The general approach will work for Aperture 2 users as well but they may as well just modify the already available script that most Canon shooters use.
As I have mentioned on about a thousand or so occasions Aperture’s ability to have a different image or image version show up on top of a stack for each and every album that you create is a huge benefit to developing an efficient work-flow. For those of you that are unfamiliar with albums and album picks you may want to take a look at the organization PDF. One of the features that I use all the time is the fact that new versions created in the context of...
A quick follow up to the NEF matching post from a few days ago. Even though there were about 700 (exaggeration) downloads of the NEF files that I posted only one person shared their recipe and it was pretty close. As promised here is my recipe for the D2H/s. The recipe that follows will vary a little based on the light temperature that you shoot with, your camera’s white balace setting and obviously the specific Nikon that you shoot with as well as your in camera settings/picture control settings....
For the Holiday season I thought I would post a lighthearted look at things that have been on my Christmas wishlist that I have never found under my tree on Christmas morning. Keep in mind most of these things are really insane and would probably do nothing to make my photography any better or more rewarding, well some of them might insprire me to make some photographs that I could make anyway. These are things that I have photographic gear lust for, maybe just plain old really nice object...
A couple of questions that I received from loyal readers regarding the article on using Aperture books with other printing services has highlighted an unforgivable, gross, glaring omission on my part. Please accept my apologies I skipped a critical piece of information that is pretty obvious considering it’s part of my own PDF rendering scripts that I use with various printing services including blurb.com. I will get right to the point on what that omission is. In the PDF rendering script that I instructed readers to prepare in the...
Just in time for the Holidays. Here is a really quick tip if you like and want Nik Viveza for Aperture but you don’t like the $249.95 price tag. I bought the plug-in for Aperture when it came out because I was already familiar with it from Nikon Capture NX and NX2 (and I like to waste/spend money, actually I try to support companies with my purchases that I really really like). Here is the quick and cheap way to get it with a minor downside, the downside being...
Given that I am a control freak, a lazy control freak, but still a control freak I almost always lug a bunch of lights, stands, and modifiers with me when I shoot. Indoors, outdoors, it really doesn’t matter. In the past most of my gear has been of the thermonuclear weapon variety given that I used to shoot with slow slow film in big big formats with longish lenses (ie. very small depth of field so small apertures required), I actually have some strobe heads that can put out...
If you have been using Aperture for more than a little while, especially on a laptop you may be struggling with storage space issues. Referenced masters to the rescue – sort of. For the readers not familiar with referenced masters a brief review is in order. With Aperture there are two options for storing the image files that you import. Option one – the default – is called managed masters. Using managed masters Aperture copies your precious original image files into it’s mysterious secret abyss never to be seen...
Just a real quick question for all of the loyal readers or not so loyal, whatever the case may be. At the end of a long day I checked the download stats on the site and noticed an amazing number of people downloaded the NEF files from the last post. Did anyone try to match the NX2 or NX color renditions (flat color settings or portrait)? I personally would love to know two things from you and I am sure that the others that downloaded the files would also...
For some reason the most popular post on the site this week was one that I put up this past summer about the Adobe camera profiles for DNG and Lightroom 2. I received a ton of emails that basically asked “Why are you so enamored with the camera profiles?”. Well here it is – I am primarily a Nikon shooter (Hasselblad when required) and I am lazy. One of the things that has annoyed me since day one with Apple’s Aperture (even though I love it in other ways)...
