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Aperture Smarter Filter

25 Nov 2008 2 Comments

by 無聊達人 in Aperture, Photography Tags: Aperture, Apple, Photography

My “kai” dad found me quite often recently. He wants to get new Nikon D90 and also replaced his Nikon 18-200mm VR f/3.5-5.6 to Nikon’s DX king 17-55mm f/2.8. So bad, he should get mine when I sold mine few months ago. Now he asks me for some sample pictures taken at 17 & 55mm end wide opened.

Thanks to Aperture, it’s too easy to achieve an old man’s troublesome request!

Other than keyboards we would normally touch on, Aperture also provides EXIF, IPTC, adjustment as filtering criteria.

Mac OS X Supports Nikon D700 Raw

25 Sep 2008 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Aperture, Apple, Mac, Nikon, Photography, Software Tags: Aperture, Apple, Application, Mac, Mac OS X, Nikon, Nikon D700, Photography

Except the update of Mac OS X to 10.5.5 another great news for me is the OS supports my Nikon D700 raw file (NEF) natively. That means I can start shooting RAW now and it’s so easy to manipulate it in iPhoto / Aperture!

Photographer & Snowboarder

13 Sep 2008 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Aperture, Apple, Mac, Photography, Sport Tags: Aperture, Apple, Mac, Photography, Ski & Snowboard, Sport

Recently I heard O’reilly’s Aperture podcast, it interviewed some sport photographers in Beijing Olympic game. This time, a female photographer – Mine Kasapoglu. When I checked her web site, it made me really crazy! Of course, she’s a photographer, a Nikonian, but also a professional Mac user, and also a snowboarder champion!!

Oh my God! It’s such a prefect person for me! I love her portfolio so so much!! I think I’m sharing the same interests but without the word “pro”.

Apple – Pro – Profiles – Mine Kasapoglu
O’Reilly — Mine Kasapoglu on Location in Beijing
minekasapoglu.com

Aperture Library Rebuild and Consistency Check

15 Jul 2008 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Aperture, Mac, Photography Tags: Aperture, Mac, Photography

Haven’t talked about Aperture 2′s powerful features some days, it’s time to explore some of them.

Press option + command key when you open Aperture 2, it will bring up a dialogue, where you can rebuild or check consistency of your projects.

Vacuum! If you’re developer, you would expect this is a procedure to free space or boost performance of database. I guess it also applies to Aperture 2 internal database.