Inside Aperture

Location, location, location... This mantra holds true when it comes to computers too. For the past five years or so I have been glued to a 15” Apple laptop. It has always been my format of choice and I...

I recently got my mitts on the new Apple Pro Training Series book: Aperture 2 - Professionally Manage Digital Photographs by Ben Long, Richard Harrington and Orlando Luna. I’ve been waiting for it, since this is the book that Apple...

I am excited that the amazing U Point technology of Nik Software’s Viveza, in the form of an easy-to-use editing plug-in, is now available to photographers using Aperture 2.1. My first encounter with the U Point technology was through...

I’ve been working on a video tutorial series for Aperture and in the course of creating each tutorial I often rediscover some of the little and not so little gems that make Aperture so outstanding. It’s easy to become complacent...

When Aperture 1.0 came out and I was fiddling around with it, I came across the Light Table feature, played around with it for awhile and thought ‘neat!’, and then didn’t touch it for two years...

For the last couple of weeks I have been searching for the perfect street camera. I have been comparing three “point and shoot” cameras that could potentially fit the bill. I’ve been trying to make a decision as to which...

Nik Software released Viveza for Aperture yesterday. This is a plug-in that you’re going to want to give a test drive. It’s really pretty amazing software when you put it through its paces. I first saw a demo of Viveza...

I’ve been shooting for a very long time, and my enthusiasm for photography has only increased since picking up a camera at the age of 12 and somehow convincing my parents I can use the second bathroom as a darkroom...

I've shooting lately in very rough lighting conditions. From shooting kiteboarders in black wetsuits, towards the west, over water, around 1-3pm in hazy conditions to shooting them against the setting sun, it's been one exposure challenge after another. As I've...

Drab and gray? Flat? No highlights? It can happen. Maybe you're on location, and it's getting late and the light is fading fast. Or, you're in the studio and there's not enough strobes for the kind of setup you...