This is for our friend Paul. He asked for some starting points for the D2H in Aperture so here are a few to get started. Just as a note – the D2H has perennially been one of the most difficult NEF files to dial-in due to continuous bizarre but subtle white balance issues in Aperture. This has been true since Aperture V1 but has improved over time. I have to say somewhere in the last few updates I could swear it got better but why? I think myself and...
One of our faithful friends emailed me regarding Aperture 3 vs NX2 RAW conversion “issues”. I thought I covered this enough times before but… Here is a Nikon D50 NEF preset that happens to “match” what NX2 does with our friends camera settings – which NOTHING else reads by default. You can get to the same place about 1000 different ways. I just chose to do it this way. In reality if I were doing this over again for all my stuff (I will) I would use the curves...
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...
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....
Just in time for the Holidays. Here is a really quick tip if you like and want Nik Viveza for Aperture but you don’t like the $249.95 price tag. I bought the plug-in for Aperture when it came out because I was already familiar with it from Nikon Capture NX and NX2 (and I like to waste/spend money, actually I try to support companies with my purchases that I really really like). Here is the quick and cheap way to get it with a minor downside, the downside being...
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...
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)...
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...
