D3 firmware has a bug. If you are shooting at 9 frames per second or more you might get a corrupt file. For a temporary fix I changed my CL continuous low setting to 8 frames per second in the menu. So I will use that till the fix is available.
I got a early birthday gift from Dave SeriTek/5PM 5 bay eSATA enclosure drives. Now I have the tool to get organized, but I need to pick the software I am leaning toward Aperture.
Dave says JBOD stands for "just a bunch of drives".
Friday, April 25, 2008
Yosemite Spring 2008
We went to Yosemite and had a great time. It was not the best for photos but it was great to be there. With the road work going half the valley is not reachable by car but you can still hike to spots. The light was not dramatic and there was not one cloud in the sky. But the amount of water coming down the falls was good. Not too many flowers blooming n the valley but I saw some buds.
I was hiking threw a meadow on a walking path and I can see a dear in the trees at a distance coming our way. So I freeze in my tracks hoping the deer will still head in the same direction. Even tho the deer was not close I slowly lower my camera bag and pull out my camera. By the time I have my camera out the deer is walking around me in a semi circle. After the deer walks around me I have Half Dome with a back ground and the deer turns around and looks at me and just stares. Dave gasps at the scene and starts to take his camera out. Then some guy in a blue Hawaiian shirt comes running toward us with the biggest binoculars I have ever seen. I saw him before looks like he was shaking out a tent. As soon as the deer runs off he turns around and walks away I think he wanted scared him off for some reason. I still got the shot.
I was hiking threw a meadow on a walking path and I can see a dear in the trees at a distance coming our way. So I freeze in my tracks hoping the deer will still head in the same direction. Even tho the deer was not close I slowly lower my camera bag and pull out my camera. By the time I have my camera out the deer is walking around me in a semi circle. After the deer walks around me I have Half Dome with a back ground and the deer turns around and looks at me and just stares. Dave gasps at the scene and starts to take his camera out. Then some guy in a blue Hawaiian shirt comes running toward us with the biggest binoculars I have ever seen. I saw him before looks like he was shaking out a tent. As soon as the deer runs off he turns around and walks away I think he wanted scared him off for some reason. I still got the shot.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
D3 firmware and Nikon NX updates
Today I just updated my D3 firmware and now I can adjust my focus point brightness witch is a nice feature. There are also some other small fixes and the highlights play back display is easier to find in the menu. It now has vignette control for certain lenses and I turned on that on.
Nikon NX I also updated with the 1.3.3 I am not sure of the details of the changes yet I am just getting to learn the software now. I am very impressed so far and wish I could use it to process my raw files while using Aperture or Lightroom.
Nikon NX I also updated with the 1.3.3 I am not sure of the details of the changes yet I am just getting to learn the software now. I am very impressed so far and wish I could use it to process my raw files while using Aperture or Lightroom.
Aperture has better color than Lightroom
After comparing some photos that were processed with Aperture and Lightroom I thought the Aperture RAW photos looked better than the Lightroom when just opening the photos with out tweaking anything. The colors looked the way I remembered them and the photos where much better looking. The only thing with the Lightroom photos it was easier to delete more photos because they where just not as pretty and I need to get more aggressive about deleting more photos.
The fact that there is no stadard photographer contact information makes it hard for me to make the choice to go with Aperture. I also prefer the curves control in lightroom, Aperture seems to basic and lacks true control
The fact that there is no stadard photographer contact information makes it hard for me to make the choice to go with Aperture. I also prefer the curves control in lightroom, Aperture seems to basic and lacks true control
Friday, April 11, 2008
Adobe Lightroom verses Apple Aperture
I am not the most geeky person I am surprising myself to be writing about this. I am hoping by writing it down and putting it out there that it will help me choose. I have many years of photos I need to key word and organize and my photos are scattered on too many drives. I am sure allot of photographers have this problem. I was tying to use bridge for this and it was doing a very poor job of it. Crashing all the time and half the time you just didn't know what Bridge was doing. Bridge was beyond slow for me. The final straw is when updated to CS3 I lot most of my ***** staring system and losing hundreds of hours of work.
So the main choices seem to be Lightroom or Aperture any other suggestions? I was also going to try Portfolio but I have been waiting for them to send me a password for more that one week. You can not e-mail for help with out a password and when I called for customer service and technical help they say they can not answer at this time. So do you with Adobe if they can create a bad software like bridge do I dare use Lightroom. Aperture took months to support new cameras like Nikon D3. Witch made it impossible to use there software. And if you choose one you hope that they will stick to their software and not drop it because it was not making enough money, anyways.
I am grateful that they each let you try out there software to see witch you like. My husband is using Lightroom mostly because Aperture was not supporting the D3 and he needed something NOW! On thought that if we wanted to teach he could be the Lightroom guy an I could be the Aperture gal but I just want something that works the best.
Down to nic-picking each one-
1. I wish I could use the software with my Nikon NX because I prefer this raw converter over all others. But sometimes with a mostly blue photo I would prefer Lightroom or Aperture. I would like to have the choice but Aperture will only send out a tiff and not a raw file. Adobe wants only you to use their software so you can only export out to Photoshop. I can with each use "show in finder" and then I can right click and open the file in Nikon NX but it is no longer being organized so what is the point.
2. Aperture does not support the Meta data Contact Page like - who is the photographer and how can they be contacted. I found this out when submitting photos to the BBC photo contest. So how should you go around this this seems like it would make the photographer look very unprofessional and maybe lose sales. Even tho I was trying out Aperture I had to create my keywording in photoshop so that I would have my contact info in. And even if the file had the contact info in if you were exporting out of Aperture you would have no contact nfo because Aperature does not support this.
3. Aperture will let you make dupe key words like antarctica and Antarctica I had have of my with caps and half without for the same word. Lightroom doesn't let you do this.
4. Aperture had randomly made dupe photos and put them is a different folder.
5. Lightroom some times makes mistakes about bringing in photos it already has in the library this happen to my husband ( http://www.davehartleyphotography.com/ )after he changed his laptop time. When traveling we change the clocks on our cameras and laptops so we know when the real time of the photo is.
6. With Aperture if you hit control z on too many times it takes you to a completely different photo and you no longer have the photo you are working on in you monitor. But I had a similar problem with lightroom while tagging photos, or changing search filters.
7. Aperture is faster that Lightroom in every way.
8. Aperture does not let you create your own cropping aspect ratio, Lightroom does, being a fan of the panoramic this is a bummer.
List of what is better about Aperture - key wording is easier, Loupe is great, versions or stacks works better, and everything is faster.
list of what is better about Lightroom - better panels for raw converting, targeted adjustment tool, viewing slide show I can see how many stars I have tagged, better straightening tool, Lens correction vignette correction works better
So the main choices seem to be Lightroom or Aperture any other suggestions? I was also going to try Portfolio but I have been waiting for them to send me a password for more that one week. You can not e-mail for help with out a password and when I called for customer service and technical help they say they can not answer at this time. So do you with Adobe if they can create a bad software like bridge do I dare use Lightroom. Aperture took months to support new cameras like Nikon D3. Witch made it impossible to use there software. And if you choose one you hope that they will stick to their software and not drop it because it was not making enough money, anyways.
I am grateful that they each let you try out there software to see witch you like. My husband is using Lightroom mostly because Aperture was not supporting the D3 and he needed something NOW! On thought that if we wanted to teach he could be the Lightroom guy an I could be the Aperture gal but I just want something that works the best.
Down to nic-picking each one-
1. I wish I could use the software with my Nikon NX because I prefer this raw converter over all others. But sometimes with a mostly blue photo I would prefer Lightroom or Aperture. I would like to have the choice but Aperture will only send out a tiff and not a raw file. Adobe wants only you to use their software so you can only export out to Photoshop. I can with each use "show in finder" and then I can right click and open the file in Nikon NX but it is no longer being organized so what is the point.
2. Aperture does not support the Meta data Contact Page like - who is the photographer and how can they be contacted. I found this out when submitting photos to the BBC photo contest. So how should you go around this this seems like it would make the photographer look very unprofessional and maybe lose sales. Even tho I was trying out Aperture I had to create my keywording in photoshop so that I would have my contact info in. And even if the file had the contact info in if you were exporting out of Aperture you would have no contact nfo because Aperature does not support this.
3. Aperture will let you make dupe key words like antarctica and Antarctica I had have of my with caps and half without for the same word. Lightroom doesn't let you do this.
4. Aperture had randomly made dupe photos and put them is a different folder.
5. Lightroom some times makes mistakes about bringing in photos it already has in the library this happen to my husband ( http://www.davehartleyphotography.com/ )after he changed his laptop time. When traveling we change the clocks on our cameras and laptops so we know when the real time of the photo is.
6. With Aperture if you hit control z on too many times it takes you to a completely different photo and you no longer have the photo you are working on in you monitor. But I had a similar problem with lightroom while tagging photos, or changing search filters.
7. Aperture is faster that Lightroom in every way.
8. Aperture does not let you create your own cropping aspect ratio, Lightroom does, being a fan of the panoramic this is a bummer.
List of what is better about Aperture - key wording is easier, Loupe is great, versions or stacks works better, and everything is faster.
list of what is better about Lightroom - better panels for raw converting, targeted adjustment tool, viewing slide show I can see how many stars I have tagged, better straightening tool, Lens correction vignette correction works better
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