At one time or another, digital photographers will have to deal with image noise. This is particularly true when photos have been shot in dim lighting conditions and at a high ISO. Many digital cameras produce visible noise above 400...

After a rather stressful trip back from Photokina, I finally arrived home in SW England at 3:30am, Monday morning...

This past week I had my first critique session in my grad school program. Typically the format is that three students sign up each week and get to show their work. By the end of the semester we should have...

The Aperture Nature Photography Workshop takes place at some of the the world’s most beautiful and photogenic places: America’s National Parks. And it’s free! The catch is, you have to enter a contest and win to attend this unique and...

Well, not quite 'live' as it's midnight here, but you know what I mean... The second day of the largest photography trade show is over, with another four gruelling days to go. As I'm helping man a stand and giving...

From 100GB CF cards to a 21-megapixel camera that can also shoot 1080p video, there have been a slew of photographic announcements this past week. You would almost imagine that a trade show is coming. Or Christmas. Or massive credit...

When I was new to photography, before digital imaging turned the industry upside down, I would often hear one uncertain advise from my mentors: "Break the rules." As best as I could, I respectfully learned the rules and then...

This past week I have been trying to get myself up to speed with a few of the scanners we have available to us on campus. We have a good variety of scanners in our studio center, as well...

From the comments on the Raw Update Post: Nick said: “This was good news! I did note a problem though. I had imported my RAW files into Aperture prior to the update. I thought that having loaded the RAW update...

One of the things I really like about Aperture is how it changed, simplified and organized the way I share, show, submit, distribute, present, and output my final images. At one time or another, I must have, and I still...

I’ve had to give a number of presentations recently in a variety of arenas and I want to share some of my observations. Most of the time I use my own projector - the original Canon Realis. That way I...

For those of you with the following cameras: Good News! They are now supported by the operating system which means you can Aperture and iPhoto them to your heart’s content. I opted to shoot mostly D3 since the D700 wasn't...

Photokina is rapidly approaching, the largest photo show in the world. Newly-announced cameras such as the Nikon D90, possibly even a few rumoured things like the Canon 5DII. Two years ago at Photokina 2006 Apple attended for the first time,...

Last week Nik Software announced a new Edit plugin for Aperture called Sharpener Pro. I have spent the past week testing this plugin and I have one thing to say--get it! This plugin is by far one of the most...

Who doesn’t like to be comfortable? In photography however, comfort doesn’t always spell success. Fresh, okay.. not the right word...exhausted... after two weeks of four-hour-a-night sleeps, walking a million miles carrying my heavy gear and spending much of my time...

We all spend a lot of effort really making our images look as good as possible, using all sorts of different tools. Yet an equally important part of the equation is how we frame and matte our images, both physically...

Last week, I completed two photo assignments in New York City--a portrait session and a fashion shoot. Things went well except for one itsy-bitsy thing: I didn't have Photoshop. In that whirlwind of a week, out of all the...

I’ve still not had time to sit down and analyse the editing plug-in SDK properly, but as far as I know the plug-in can request the RAW file, not just an Aperture-rendered TIFF. In theory, this means that camera manufacturers...

This week was my first week of classes at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I am now in what they are calling the MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media program. Earlier this week we all met to talk about...

I'm here blogging on the last day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm running to the Xcel Center to get ready for the final night when John McCain makes his historic speech accepting the nomination...

Sometimes life stops you in your tracks so that you have to take a break from your routines. Last week my Dad passed away and of course my regular life was put on “hold.” No matter how prepared you think...

For me, one of the most exciting new features that was added in Aperture was the Preview Fingerprinting, giving the potential for some really sophisticated integration between Aperture and other applications.