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Aperture, Lightroom, Capture NX2, and Nikon Shooters

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)...

09 December 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 11 Comments
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Aperture 2 vs. Adobe Lightroom 2

The answer to the question “what is better, Aperture or Lightroom?”, as always, is…. It depends. I use both Aperture and Lightroom on a daily basis (as well as Nikon NX2, etc, etc) If I didn’t need to know both of these products extremely well I would probably use Aperture 2 for my own photography (Just letting you know what my bias is). The answer that I always give to my private clients as well as participants in any of my workshops is this – Once you know what...

09 September 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , | 6 Comments
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Adobe Lightroom2 and DNG camera profiles

Let me start out by stating that I am an Aperture zealot. I jumped on board Aperture from day one and believe that the product’s introduction was revolutionary. Heck it kicked Adobe in the head and woke the digital media giant into understanding what photographers really need, hence Photoshop Lightroom and now the (if I must say so) excellent Lightroom2. I can forgive Apple for the lame plugin implementation of dodge and burn, I can forgive no multi-adjustment presets, even if they do seem idiotically easy to implement. What...

10 August 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 3 Comments