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Aperture – Fun With Metadata

If you have been diligently adding your keywords, captions, location information, and other metadata using Aperture (or Lightroom, or Photo Mechanic, or any other photo browser for that matter) as you know it can be very useful for finding images fast. Even if you haven’t been so disciplined adding your own metadata there are still some interesting and fun things you can do with Aperture on a crappy Saturday afternoon if you are not inspired to go out and shoot. Let’s assume that you have not been that diligent...

02 June 2009 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 3 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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Alternatives To The Mainstream

I am a little punch drunk from spending far too much time on reinventing the site with a bunch of new features so I thought I would take a little break and discuss a couple of products that serve as partial alternatives to the heavy hitters in the image work-flow field. The two players that come to mind would be Photo Mechanic and ACDSee Pro. I don’t claim to be remotely proficient with either product in the way that I am with Aperture and Lightroom but I thought I...

09 April 2009 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments
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Lightroom 2 – D3X – Tether Hack

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.

29 December 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Articles | , , , , , , | 0 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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The Joy of Photography

Today while I was waiting for the light rail in one of the the grand old Pennsylvania railroad stations, a place that I have been in and around countless times, thinking as I alway do, “I have to bring my camera and take some shots of this place soon”, guess what happend. I saw someone that actually brought his camera and who was actually taking pictures. I sat and watched him for a minute or two and felt compelled to wave to him as my train arrived and I...

25 September 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, General Photography | , , | 12 Comments
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