Photography and Macintosh tips, reviews and techniques.
My wife has the green thumb in this house and she’s tried her hand at Knockout Roses this year. So far, they’re doing just fine.
I caught this newly opening pair in the morning after a light rain the evening before. It was overcast, but that softened up the light enough to make a nice picture.
But I had to be fast. Later that morning they had opened up a great deal and by late afternoon they were too open for the image I wanted.
So when you see a shot you like, take it.
Aperture is not as widely used as Lightroom, if no other reason than it runs only on Mac OS X. A result is that fewer resources are available for learning the “best practices” for Aperture or for sharing discoveries and problems. As I have brought myself up to speed with Aperture 3, these resources have been helpful:
And don’t forget to read Apple’s Aperture 3 User Manual.
All Aperture users who updated to version 3.0 right at the start have been on a wild ride thanks to Apple’s poor software quality control with this release. Performance problems, outright bugs, missing features and confusion were the rule across Twitter and the web. Now, at least for me, Aperture has settled in to be what it should have been from the beginning.
The final fix for me was from the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.2. Yes, it added support for several cameras some folks were waiting for. But it also fixed bugs with Canon 30D RAW conversions — the green tint issue happening when my old Canon 30D RAW files were reprocessed with the new Aperture conversion was fixed.
That’s good. Now I’m a happy Aperture user again and I’m pleased with the new features. I can get back to work.
