Aperture 3: big things, little things.
It’s been a verrrrry long time coming. But having spent the past hour playing around with the new version of Aperture, all I can say is: thank you. My stubbornness feels completely repaid.
This upgrade adresses everything that was lacking and adds a ton of features, big and small. It’s as though Apple actually read every [...]
APERTURE 3 is out!
I’ll have a first look later today but here are the highlights from Apple’s page:
Apple – Aperture – Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity.
Two words: non-destructive :-)
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Hypercard for the iPad
Apple these days look like they’re all about consuming content. The topic even came up on the Aperture forum the other day, with some seeing this as proof that the company no longer cares about the application. When Steve Jobs presents Apple as a “mobile company” it suddenly becomes quite easy to get caught up in [...]
A few (more) words on Apple’s iPad
Everyone’s talking about the iPad right now. So I’m not going to pretend I have anything to add that hasn’t already been said at some point during the last 18 hours or so. But for what it’s worth, here’s my take:
This past year I moved my reading habit to my iPod Touch. I’m the first [...]
drive-by shooting (reprint from JPG Magazine)
It wasn’t premeditated. I didn’t wake up one morning and decide to drive around with a camera in my hand. I was just stuck in traffic one day, heading for a shoot with my camera bag right next to me on the passenger seat. While waiting at a red light I took out my camera [...]
Hope – televised.
A year ago today I was sitting in front of my television, watching history being made. A lot has changed since then and looking back, it’s hard not to feel a tinge of sadness. Change is hard apparently.
To commemorate this day, I’m reposting through my plasma screen | a moment in history. It now all seems [...]
FAKEZINES – Fake magazines. Real pictures
I love Redux Pictures. I love the photographers and I love the blog where they display the magazine articles and covers where their work appears. And since I’m not yet a part of that exclusive group (!) I decided to fake it.
Enter FAKEZINES – Fake magazines. Real pictures.
The idea here is simply to put my [...]
the case of aperture and the stratocaster
For the past year – and more so these past months – the debate has been raging around Aperture and Lightroom, mainly from AP2 users who feel abandoned by Apple. The silence surrounding a new version of the application has been deafening, forcing a lot of users into the arms of Adobe for many reasons [...]
The new iMac and Aperture: quite a difference
Just before Christmas I received a new 27 in quad-core i7 iMac loaded with 8gb of ram. For those wondering about the performance gains in Aperture all I can say is: night and day. Working in Aperture 2.1.4 after the SL upgrade had become an exercise in frustration, making my work tedious and my temper… [...]
the orbis arm
When I purchased the Orbis ring flash last summer one thing was immediately clear: it needed a way to stay attached to the camera without the need for constant handholding. There was already an accessory in the works promising to do just that. A few weeks ago it finally started shipping.
From the official site: The [...]
paper geek
As some of you may know, I purchased an Epson Photo R2880 a few months ago when I decided after much deliberation to do all my printing in-house (at least anything 13 in wide or less).The Snow Leopard debacle notwithstanding, I haven’t regretted my decision one bit. Sending my client’s photos to the lab always [...]
defining style, defining yourself.
If you’ve never seen the following video by photographer and blogger Zack Arias do it now. I’ll wait.
If you’re like me and every artist I know you’ve just felt instant kinship with Zack’s “problems”. Funny how we think we’re pretty special and yet… we’re all exactly the same aren’t we?
I watched Apple’s Meet the Expert [...]
of snow leopard, aperture and epson
Allright, so after two weeks I’m still on Snow Leopard and have decided to live with the very annoying printing bug. In fact as of this morning I’m on 10.6.1 which unfortunately - after a few more tests – doesn’t solve anything. Why not revert to Leopard? Well frankly, the rest of the system feels [...]
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. [...]
ring light, ring bright.
The ring light look has been a staple of fashion photography for years. It produces perfect catchlights as well as a very clean, shadowless look. Which isn’t something I thought I’d like to be honest, since I pretty much live for the shadows and the contrast between light and darkness. Yeah… I’m a bit of [...]
