March 20th, 2006 |
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Photography
Two Aperture Tricks to Manage Large Libraries:
If your Aperture library has become larger than what your hard drive can handle, I have two possible solutions. The first is to employ this mobile drive solution in combination with tapping the power of the Projects feature in Aperture.
The second possibility is to try Ben Long’s Aperture Library Spanner that allows you to span an Aperture library across multiple volumes.
Regardless of which method you try, always backup (or vault) your entire Aperture library on an independent drive first. You can’t be too careful with your pictures.
(Via Mac DevCenter.)
March 16th, 2006 |
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Photography
Ass! Fool!:
I’ve been having this problem with my DSLR. Every so often, and especially during peaks of action, the best shot would end up looking like an ISO 6400 picture … noisy, grainy, uneven color, bad focus. Just all-around awful. Ruining some shoots where capturing peak of action is paramount. I’ve trolled the bulletin boards for information … turned off autofocus, stood on my head, performed voodoo. Still happens. Once the camera totally locked up, requiring a removal and reinsertion of the battery. Would I have to send it for service? It’s been preying in the back of my mind for about a month now.
Today the epiphany came. I was taking off my favorite fleece pullover (a lightweight Black Diamond), and the static was so severe it actually burned my chest. Nice red spot. The air here at high altitude is dessicated in winter, exacerbating the problem. Then the lightbulb came on in my thick skull … I prefer to wear this pullover when photographing, because there are no zippers or buttons where the camera rides. And I’m inadvertently rubbing my arms against my trunk more during peak actions times, when photographing.
If this is the case, I’m relieved … and feeling completely idiotic. The next couple of photo shoots will tell if this is the actual problem, as I now believe.
A later update seemed to confirm his hypothesis
(Via Dangerousmeta.)
February 11th, 2006 |
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Photography
Storing Your Digital Images:
Site contributor and author of The 123 of Digital Imaging Interactive Learning Suite, Vincent Bockaert has written a very interesting article on one of the most important issues facing the digital photographer, how to store your digital images for now and for the future. His article covers the different storage media available and the relative costs and merits of each. This article is the first in a series on a range of digital photography subjects by Vincent.
A quick overview of current options in storage as a general topic, not really specific to images, but a good lesson non the less
(Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).)
February 8th, 2006 |
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Photography
Apparently:
Canon DPP 2.03 downsamples images to 8-bit before doing certain operations. More here.
(Via Dangerousmeta.)
January 15th, 2006 |
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Photography
Adobe Lightroom Public Beta:
Direct competitor to Aperture, available for download as a free public beta that expires in June (intriguingly, only for Mac — support for Windows is coming later). Don’t miss the video tour of Lightroom’s features and interface.
Worth looking at price is yet to be determined, I do find it interesting that it came out for mac first, not the way that Adobe usually does things…
(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)
January 15th, 2006 |
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Photography
Advanced Editing in Camera Raw:
Go further with Adobe’s Camera Raw software. You’ll be amazed at the control you can have over white balance, exposure, highlights, shadows, brightness, contrast, and saturation!
(Via creativepro.com - all stories.)
December 30th, 2005 |
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Photography
MacFixIt - Special Report: Troubleshooting Aperture:
Special Report: Troubleshooting Aperture
Great set of articles, I don’t use aperture, but if you do this might be useful
(Via .)
December 29th, 2005 |
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Photography
Apple Aperture 1.0.1:
Apple has updated its professional photo application, Aperture. Version 1.0.1 includes improved white balance adjustment accuracy and performance, image export quality, book and print ordering reliability, auto-stacking performance and custom paper size handling. The update is available as a 11 MB download. Also of interest to anyone investingating Aperture will be Imaging-Resource’s excellent ‘Aperture Diary’ which is a hands-on look at how Aperture fits into a day by day workflow.
This is an app to watch, I think that apple is suffering some 1.0 issues with this app, but the upside and is huge. Espeecially now that Adobe has digested their only rival…
(Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).)
