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May 07 2008
I've shooting lately in very rough lighting conditions. From shooting kiteboarders in black wetsuits, towards the west, over water, around 1-3pm in hazy conditions to shooting them against the setting sun, it's been one exposure challenge after another. As I've.... read moreApril 23 2008
It's funny how when you don't use a tool for a while, you forget about certain features. In this case, I'm talking about Lifting and Stamping a specific change. For those of you who haven't used the Lift and Stamp.... read moreApril 09 2008
Although the concept of editing an image stored in Aperture with an external editor has been around since version 1, I've received a few questions lately on the topic and want to take some time to review working with your.... read moreMarch 26 2008
A number of people, myself included, have been grumbling about how Aperture does not have the ability to label images a certain color. For instance, I might label an image blue if I want to upload it to my website,.... read moreMarch 12 2008
If you've read my posts before, you know that I really like Aperture's full screen mode. Being able to hide everything else and just focus on my images is quite appealing! In Aperture 1.X, unfortunately you had to exit full... read moreFebruary 27 2008
The theme of this entry is randomness, as in two completely unrelated, random tips that I've found while using Aperture 2 over the past few weeks. The first is related to file importing, and the second is about hotkeys and... read moreFebruary 13 2008
Wow, Aperture 2 is amazingly fast. I feel like someone snuck a new CPU into my machine while I was installing the Aperture 2 preview. It loads 20+ MB, 21MP 1Ds Mark III RAW files in just a few seconds... read moreOSX 10.5.2 update adds extra RAW support
February 11 2008
Just a quick note if you've been frustrated by having a camera with an unsupported RAW format, like a Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII, Powershot G9, or a Nikon D3. Open up System Preferences > Software Update and click "Check for... read moreJanuary 23 2008
I've found that a common task I need to do is sort a large collection of images down to a smaller collection and pass those along to someone else. I can't always just always send the highest-rated images, because sometimes... read moreJanuary 16 2008
Last weekend, I was out photographing a big-wave surf contest in northern California called Mavericks. In between sets, I was talking with some of the other photographers, and I discovered that out of the group I was chatting with, I... read moreJanuary 02 2008
The other day, I was helping a person figure out a weird problem in Shake. Given it took two of us to figure out what turned out to be a color space problem, I figured it would worth spending some... read moreDecember 18 2007
You probably saw that Apple released a new version of Mac OS X, Leopard, about a month ago. Yet one announcement that didn't get too much attention was about a public beta of a new, Leopard-only image editing tool called... read moreSpeeding Up a Wedding Photographer
December 18 2007
Last week, I received an email from a wedding photographer, asking for some Aperture help. She's found that after she works in Aperture for a while, each adjustment she makes takes longer and longer (sometimes on the order of 10... read moreDecember 05 2007
You probably saw that Apple released a new version of Mac OS X, Leopard, about a month ago. Yet one announcement that didn't get too much attention was about a public beta of a new, Leopard-only image editing tool called... read moreA Small Issue With Disabling Previews
November 21 2007
A while ago, I posted a blog about previews, discussing when they're useful and how to turn them off. A friend of mine, Ralph Hill, recently told me about a potential problem when you disable previews, and it's worth sharing... read more
