Learning Apple's Aperture
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This post will bore the non-photographers right into sleepy-time...
So, even though I bought Apple's Aperture software program last summer, I am just now getting around to learning it. For the uninitiated, Aperture is Apple's software that allows you to import, manage, and enhance your photos in the post-production workflow. Well it's got a pretty steep learning curve. It's similar enough to Photoshop (which I knew just the basics of) that I can do some rudimentary things with it so far.
As a side note, there were some group photos I took at Brett & Sherrie's wedding that had two light sources: incandescent spots from the ceiling and then the on-camera flash. Daniel warned me as I was setting up about the ceiling lights and I erroneously told him the flash would overpower those and we'd be fine photographically. Well, I was wrong. In post-production, I just couldn't get the color temperatures to jive. Brett & Sherrie still don't have finals of those group shots, so those are my first photographic priority. What I learn from messing around like this will, I hope, allow me to jive those color temperatures and get them off my back (just kidding, Sherrie).
I had imported some photos Daniel and I had taken last summer up in the mountains to the east of us here in Moroni, and decided to do some "learning" with them. The photo here is one of them. I just cropped it and did some minor color correction. Hope you like it.
1 comment:
Cool Jim. We are using Adobe Lightroom. I think that it is somewhat comparable. I absolutely love the ability to shoot RAW or JPG and manage your whole workflow in one piece of software. Create libraries, do individual and batch edits, and tweak the photos with curves and controls to really give depth and pop to the images. You can even add gradient filters and spot edit exposure, etc.. I expect you can do that with Aperture too.
All the images we have been doing lately are processed entirely with Lightroom. I love it.
Have fun.
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