Aperture vs Lightroom

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Aperture vs. Lightroom – File Management Again

Woooo Whooo, I received my very first question from an Aperture File Management eBook customer. Of course I answered his specific question ASAP but something that I touch on in the book crossed my mind as well that I thought people considering Aperture vs. Lightroom at this point may want to consider. Even a few of you Aperture old timers may find this a little interesting. I have written about Lightroom’s and Aperture’s comparative file management capabilities before but I wanted to add a different perspective or twist to...

06 December 2009 | Aperture vs Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Aperture Users – We Have A Converted Lightroom2 Guy

In case you have not seen this before, I wanted to share some links to a pair of professional wedding photographers that switched from Lightroom 2 to Aperture 2. Now here is the punch line – THEY ARE NIKON SHOOTERS. Yep, that is right Nikon wedding photographers that switched from Lightroom 2 to Aperture 2. I know I complain about a couple of nagging things, including NEF conversion and WB handling in Aperture but trust me, if Aperture was not the best tool for workflow and organization and… I...

01 November 2009 | Aperture vs Lightroom, Articles | 14 Comments
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McNally Uses Aperture – Who Knew?

Maybe this is not news you all of you but McNally’s assistant just posted something about his workflow. Seems like he uses Aperture for all the organization amongst other things. Guess what the hitch is – he is a Nikon shooter and he does all of his RAW processing in Capture NX2. Given the pain in the ass factor this has to be a giant endorsement for some of Aperture’s wonderfulness vs. Lightroom and at the same time a giant indictment about Aperture’s RAW processing on NEF files. The...

20 October 2009 | Aperture vs Lightroom, Articles | , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments
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RB’s Fine Art Photography Lessons

Just to test the waters here I thought I would post a basic tutorial on how to get started in “fine art” photography. If there is enough interest I will go into some of the more advanced techniques for both this style and cover some other styles as well. I wanted to start simple as not to intimidate anyone considering this is really serious stuff as the term “fine art” is intimidating enough. Okay let’s dive right in and get right to the meat of it. You can start...

08 June 2009 | Aperture vs Lightroom, Articles, General Photography, Lighting | | 12 Comments
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Photography – State of the Union

I must be getting old. I continue to be amazed and at the same time horrified by the state of affairs with photography in general. I guess what I am amazed with is the degree of progress in terms of the technology. When the Nikon D1 was released I used one, I didn’t own it but I had the opportunity to use an associate’s camera on a number of occasions. In and around that time I was shooting a Nikon F5.

18 April 2009 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom, Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Aperture 2 vs. Lightroom 2 – Keywords

After much clamoring from loyal readers here is another installment of Aperture v. Lightroom round 9.7. I will try to tackle key-wording (is that a word now?) as quickly and painlessly as possible. First off some quick bottom line kinds of things and then some details. Both applications are so far and away better than older tools that we won’t even bother to compare them. If you are using either of these and not tagging your images with keywords you should be ashamed of yourself or something. Aperture introduced...

25 November 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , | 8 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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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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Aperture 2 vs. Lightroom 2 – File Management

Due to popular demand I will provide some additional detail to my previous Adobe Lightroom 2 versus Apple Aperture 2 article. Both of these applications are so rich in both functionality and the multitude of ways they can used to support a photographic work-flow it will take a serious of articles to even scratch the surface. So, no better place to start than the image file management capabilities. Most photographers adopting either one of these applications will not delve into this subject until way down the road and when...

01 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , | 7 Comments
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