Archive for August, 2009

epson r2880 and snow leopard: sweating bullets

I just spent  a good 30 minutes sweating bullets upon discovering the new 10.6 compatible driver for my Epson  R2880 printer was seriously crippled. Turns out that my installation of Snow Leopard had not included Rosetta, even though I had specified it through the custom install options. After reading a forum thread mentioning the problem [...]


snow leopard and aperture – a quick glance UPDATED

UPDATE:
I’m having serious printing problems with my Epson R2880: when trying to print from Aperture (2.1.4) any paper I choose is apparently stuck at roll paper, giving a wrong source error when it reaches the printer. I now have to hit preview, select the correct page setup and profile and print from there. So far [...]


the junkyard

We’re on vacation for another week, but I thought I’d share a couple of pics…
My father-in-law is a retired engineer and all around DIY guy. When we visited last week he told me he wanted to show me something that I might enjoy shooting: we ended up in a junkyard!
He loves this stuff and usually [...]


Aperture 3 – Wishes. Expectations. Anticipation.

Aperture 3 - Wishes. Expectations. Anticipation.

Quick Recap
When Apple unveiled Aperture in 2005, the photography landscape was in dire need of consolidation: the digital workflow was a hodge podge of various solutions combining RAW converters, editing software and asset management applications. Working with RAW files was unwieldy, involving conversions and file multiplication if you needed different versions of the same picture. [...]


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