Comments on: I ♥ Aperture, episode #423

By: sarki dinle

sarki dinle — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:01:16 +0000

first photo to profossionel , congratulations…

By: dnorman

dnorman — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:57:16 +0000

In Aperture, the tweaks aren’t producing separate versions of a file. They’re just XML that get rendered on the fly, so there aren’t 10 versions of a file as you tweak it (edit in TIFF? save .jpg and .tiff versions?) You just start with one RAW file, and tweak to your heart’s content, without having to think about file management.

By: Teddy

Teddy — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:30:07 +0000

Yes, D’Arcy… we all know about your 50mm love. Heh.

Does Aperture do anything that I can’t do with PS? I tweak levels and saturation all the time. And in 12 seconds.

But seriously, does Ap do anything else?

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:18:11 +0000

For a fast fixed lens, I _LOVE_ my Canon 50mm f/1.8. I mean love in an almost unhealthy way. It might be a touch long for some shots, but for about 90% of what I shoot, it just feels right. I wouldn’t mind picking up a 30mm f/1.8 (or so), and something wider, but the 50mm is my main lens.

I love that all edits in Aperture are non destructive – including crops. At any time, you can just uncheck any adjustment, and it’s removed from the render chain. And you can start a new version of any image at any time, so experimenting is nice and safe. Very liberating and fun stuff!

I’ve tweaked the light temperature about as much as I can, but might go back to play with levels, contrast and saturation a bit more. The Christmas Day mountain photo was shot in JPG, so there’s not a lot of data to work with (and there are even some compression artifacts visible around the hay bales – ick!), but the Santa Ball was RAW so I could probably pull some more oomph from it. The Santa Ball photo is also a bit soft because I was shooting at f/1.8 due to crappy lighting. I’ll reshoot it at f/8 or so once I get decent lights in place. That should make it much sharper and more vibrant (sharper due to narrower aperture, vibrant due to better/brighter/whiter light).

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:11:43 +0000

You’ve pushed me over the edge of convincement. I’ve had Aperture laying around and have yet to take time to sort out its dizzying array of tools. I’m also eyeballing one of those fast fixed Sigma lenses for my Rebel, which has seen little use since I got a spiffy pocket camera. I love the spontaneity of the little guy, but am really missing the richness of the big gun.

I actually do a fair bit of cropping, exposure adjustment in iPhoto- its not horrible, but I know its limits, and often jump over to PhotoShop for the more demanding stuff. But I’, putting on my list of offtime this week to look into Aperture.

Just curious of you are playing at all with the light temperature settings on those lightbox shots. Its a vast improvement, but still needs a bit more “punch” IMHO.

Keep on tinkering (and posting, of course)