When Apple released Aperture they changed the way photographers thought about workflow, and I was an early adopter and advocate of the program. However, today I find myself using Adobe Lightroom and needing to transfer another 7,000 images out of Aperture. Why did I make the switch? Read on and I will try to explain the rationale behind my change of heart.

(more…)

tags: aperture | lightroom | mac | post-processing | workflow

Reading Michael Clark’s recent post on Inside Lightroom, I got to thinking about the current jpeg workflow that I developed after switching from Aperture to Lightroom and I just realized an extra benefit that I hadn’t realized when I developed the steps.

(more…)

tags: iphoto | jpeg | lightroom | mac | post-processing | workflow

Introduction

I love the workflow in Aperture. I hate the user interface in Capture NX. That said, I decided to see if the RAW conversion in Aperture lives up to my expectations. Frankly, I think I am getting great images out of Aperture, but I am letting others that I read cast some doubts on the quality of the RAW conversion. Also, I really do like the fact that Capture NX can read the camera settings in the file and that makes it my application of choice when I need to generate a quick CD of JPEGs for someone who says, “hey, can I have a copy of those photos you took tonight?” It is easier to just generate JPEGs than explain that I have to process the files first. (more…)

tags: post-processing | software | technique

The fact that I just got around to processing some photos from a trip to Glenwood Caverns over a month ago illustrates the problem with shooting snapshots in RAW. Sure, I could have batch processed them with Capture NX and uploaded the JPEGs right away, but I new these photos would need some work. The conditions were far from ideal. We were in a large tour group, several hundred feet inside a dripping wet mountain, and the wet, reflective surface wasn’t cooperating with my attempts to light things up with my SB-800. I was anxious to get some decent shots because I had visited these caves a year ago with a point-and-shoot Pentax Optio, and the photos were worthless. Too bad, because it was dry on my first trip and we were a small group. (more…)

tags: post-processing | technique