David Spratte » Aperture

Aperture 3. Now $120 Off.

dspratte — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:42:58 +0000

As a pretty regular user of Aperture, seeing it available for almost a third of what it was (fair enough, I got it on upgrade pricing) gives me mixed feelings. It’s mostly good—I’ve had it for a while, but I’d hate to be the guy that bought it for $200 yesterday.

But like I said, mostly good. I’d like to see it get a bigger market share to encourage more plug-in and script developers getting in on the Aperture scene.

Aperture 3: And then there was significantly less rejoicing.

dspratte — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:02:38 +0000

Turns out I jumped the gun. Still no RAW support for the GF1. Bummer. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a bunch of updates and some interesting technology in the update. Ultimately well worth the upgrade cost. But just the one thing I’m really jonesing for.

So here’s the learning Lightroom I guess.

Aperture 3: And there was much rejoicing.

dspratte — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:46:00 +0000

I’ve got a pile of design work in front of me, but I’m downloading the trial now. Finally some support for the M43 format.

Apple – Aperture – Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity..

Aperture Stacks Rock

dspratte — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:38:54 +0000

So, it’s not ground breaking stuff here. None at all really. But some Fridays, you can’t help but state the obvious: The Stacks feature in Aperture kicks ass. Really. Sure it’s pretty obvious in the motorsports stuff. Knowing that I can rattle off a long sequence of shots, turn on the auto-stack feature when I import and then quickly scan the sequence for which image captures the best moment.

But I’ve also been using it for dealing with bracketed exposures on some architectural work I’ve been doing. Get the timing right on import and you have all your bracketed frames from each shot, nicely organized to edit or to create into an HDR.

Maybe this’ll be part of a new tradition? Obvious Fridays.

(And the photo? Yeah. That’s from some work I shot while at Duke University Press for their Journals Ad Catalog.)