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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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Nik Silver EFEX Follow-up

I have had a lot of interest in the mini-review that I posted on Nik Silver EFEX Pro 3.0 that I posted a while back. The vast majority of readers have asked if I have ever used it to produce work for public consumption vs. crappy test images posted in the review. More so readers wanted some practical advise on getting decent prints on paper. To answer part one – yes I have used it to produce non-crappy, well at least in my opinion, prints. Earlier this summer I...

18 September 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Nik Viveza – Mini Review

I still use Adobe Photoshop, in fact I just upgraded to CS4 a little while ago but what I use it for is becoming more and more specialized and far less frequent. Maybe I will do a rundown on exactly what I use it for some other day. The reason that I use it far less than I used to is due to Nik Software, specifically Nik Viveza. I was first introduced to Nik Software’s unique way of doing things in Nikon NX and NX2. NX and NX2 come...

27 July 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 7 Comments
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Nik Silver Efex Pro 3.0 Follow-up

Seems that my mini-review of Nik Silver Efex for Aperture sparked a mild amount of interest from a couple of people that haven’t done a whole lot of black and white conversions to date, are interested in the Silver Efex plug-in and wanted a little bit more info.Of course they pointed out the flaws in my quick and dirty review of the software. One guy even asked if I ever shoot any thing that I have to walk more than 10 feet from my desk to shoot. He was...

22 June 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , | 5 Comments
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Aperture Plug-in Mini Review – Nik Silver Efex Pro 3.0

I started  out in photography with black and white. I still prefer making black and white photographs in both the traditional silver process, digital, and hybrid approaches. Having fessed up to that I will also disclose that I have tried just about every digital black and white product known to mankind. Honestly I have never been really impressed with any of them above and beyond what I can do with plain old Adobe Photoshop and would probably not recommend any of them to anybody. Nik Silver Efex Pro 3.0...

19 June 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Nik Color EFX Non-Review Review

After some pestering and cajoling from persistent readers and iBuddysâ„¢ about doing some Aperture related product reviews I finally will give it a whirl. I thought why not start with the hardest, Nik Color EFX Pro. It’s not hard to use, hard to understand, or hard to copy and paste a list of all of the stuff it does from another source. Heck it’s not even hard to make example images for each and every one of its filters. I guess the hard thing for me is to figure...

02 May 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 11 Comments