A Helios Replacement?

I’ve had a copy of Helios for a while now. It’s good, but it’s always seemed a little over complicated. Enter DaylightCal. The interface, while pretty, is a little fussy. Not an entire deal breaker, but having the location lookup fail every third time the application launches. That’s a bummer. I understand that it’s more complicated since they’re also referencing weather information as well, but still. I can’t... Read More

Aperture 3: And then there was significantly less rejoicing.

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.  Read More

Aperture 3: And there was much rejoicing.

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..  Read More

Aperture Stacks Rock

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... Read More