NEF RAW

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Why Shoot RAW

I have received a bunch of feedback on a couple of articles regarding NEF processing in Aperture. More than a few were questioning the value of shooting RAW files at all if the camera does such a good job processing JPG files with in camera settings. I thought that I would share a couple of my thoughts on this along with a contrived example for the non-believers out there. With storage costs being so idiotically inexpensive and generally huge when compared with real world numbers of still images that...

18 January 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 14 Comments
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Aperture 2 and NEF RAW Recipies

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....

24 December 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 19 Comments
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Aperture Matching Exercise.

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...

12 December 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 5 Comments
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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