And it’s decided
3 06 2008I’ve long toyed with the idea of moving over to shoot with RAW images, however, other than a few little tests here and there, I haven’t really seen how I can benefit from the move. Barry has been at me for a long time to make the jump, but, it took me until Sunday, at an Apple Aperture presentation to make up my mind that it’s time for me to make the jump.
The jist of the presentation that made me decide to jump is available in this tutorial on recovering shadows and highlights using Aperture. I toyed around with a few settings last night whilst I had my camera tethered to Aperture, and between White Balance selection and highlight recovery in RAW, I’m now sold! 
RAW is definitely the way to go. I teased myself with a trial version of Photoshop CS3 and it’s amazing how much you can do with the pics. I’m back on ol’ PS 7 now, which only takes JPEGS, but I still shoot in RAW in the hopes of saving up for the fancy software! How are you finding Apple Aperture?
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE APERTURE!!! I’ve been using it right since day 1, and I don’t think that I spend any more time in any other application, or put it through its paces as much as I do Aperture, and it comes up trumps every time. If you’ve got a mac, this is most definitely the way to go!!