I have the perfect opportunity to test-drive the latest upgrade of Apple’s photo editing software: my collection of photos from my recent trip to Israel.
Here is a photo from on top of Mount Meron in the Galil on a very hazy day, and the same photo after applying one of the new editing brushes from Aperture 3:
Original
Edited in Aperture 3
What a vast improvement. My son likened it to wiping clean a foggy window.
Here’s another example, taken in the Hula Nature Reserve. I applied a polarizing brush to the water:
Original
Edited in Aperture 3
I would purchase the trial version right now if not for one thing; this version of Aperture requires a very fast and powerful Mac (i.e. one purchased in the past year). As soon as I buy a new Mac, I’ll upgrade from Aperture 2 to Aperture 3.
I have found a new home for my photo collection — zenfolio. I am in the process of moving thousands of photos over to my new zenfolio home
Check it out.
I had the opportunity to borrow an $1800 lens the other day for my Canon DSLR. All I can say is “wow”. What great stuff you can do when you can get that close and have a fast shutter with the available room lighting.
Who want to go back to the website designed for every little change?
I have just completed modifications to a website to allow the owner to take control of certain text and photo galleries. I did so using the power of WordPress.
I like designing websites using Mac software called RapidWeaver. This website was designed with that tool. Yet this page, the blog, is a WordPress blog that has been seamlessly included in the RapidWeaver project. Same template, same location. But now I have used a similar technique to seamlessly include WordPress Pages (not posts) into my websites. The owner can chage the tex and media on the page as simply as changing a blog post.
Slightly more difficult is allowing outside control of photo galleries that also match the template of the entire website. WordPress has tools for that also. Check out the product galleries at Centerpiece to see the end result.