{"id":1451,"date":"2010-02-10T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T05:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-02-10\/1451"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T05:13:40","slug":"woo-hoo-apple-releases-aperture-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-02-10\/1451","title":{"rendered":"Woo-Hoo, Apple Releases Aperture 3!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/18, ISO 1800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThis is a Dragonfly<\/span> Wing<\/span>\nand it has nothing to do with this post\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

Apple has just released the first major upgrade in a long<\/span> time to Aperture<\/a>, its photo-workflow\napplication that fights against Adobe\nLightroom<\/a> for market share in the pro \/ advanced-amateur photographer\nmarket. This is great news if you're into photography, even if, like me,\nyou've never used Aperture.<\/p>\n\n

The list of features\nin Aperture 3.0<\/span><\/a> shares many things with what Lightroom already has, but\nincludes plenty that Lightroom doesn't have (geoencoding, video support,\nand face recognition are a few<\/span> of the headline features, but it's actually\nin the small details that one often finds salve to a workflow<\/span>\nirritation).<\/p>\n\n\n

People can get polarized about their personal choice of application\n(much like the stupid “my camera brand is so much better than yours”\narguments one finds everywhere), but the reality — the “great news”\n— is that an advance for one player ups the game for all, leading to\na win<\/span>-win down the line for everyone. You can be<\/span> sure that the Apple folks\nkeep a keen<\/span> eye on what Adobe does and how it's accepted in the\nmarketplace, and vice-versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 640 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nCan't We All Just Get Along?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Personally, I own stock<\/span> in both companies so maybe I'm covered either\nway, but it's Adobe Lightroom that I use<\/i> every single day and would\nbe completely lost without, so I wouldn't<\/span> want Aperture to grow so much\nthat Lightroom lost enough market share for Adobe to give up on it.\nConversely, I benefit<\/span> from a healthy<\/span> Aperture because it keeps alive one of\nthe many fires under the collective Lightroom butt, spurring them on to a\nbetter<\/span> product. In a one<\/span>-pony race, the winner doesn't have to run very\nfast to win, so in the end, some healthy competition is good for all.<\/p>\n\n

Aperture has a much smaller market share than Lightroom, and for a long<\/span>\ntime Apple seemed to be letting Aperture wither on the vine, so it's good\nto see a new<\/span> release shake things up a bit.<\/span> I know of<\/span> a few<\/span> “celebrity\nphotographers” (in the sense that their popularity on the web makes them\ncelebrities among photographers) that use Aperture. Chase Jarvis<\/a>, always full of\ninfectious enthusiasm, gushes\nabout the new features in Aperture 3<\/span><\/a>. Last I heard,<\/span> Vincent Laforet<\/a> was still using\nAperture, though as of this writing hasn't posted anything about Aperture\n3.<\/span> He's really<\/span> into dSLR<\/a>\nvidography these days, so I'd be surprised if he doesn't chime in with his\ntake on Aperture's new video support.<\/p>\n\n

As for me, how I got to where I am<\/span> in this context is perhaps\ninteresting, so I'll share that in another post<\/a> (that\ncontains all kinds of disclaimers and juicy tidbits, such as why I've never\nused Aperture, and how many times I've been on Apple's and Adobe's\npayroll).<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 55 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 160 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nJust. Can't. Decide<\/span>\nLighroom? Aperture? Lightroom? Aperture?...\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple has just released the first major upgrade in a long time to Aperture, its photo-workflow application that fights against Adobe Lightroom for market share in the pro \/ advanced-amateur photographer market. This is great news if you're into photography, even if, like me, you've never used Aperture.<\/p>

The list of features in Aperture 3.0 shares many things with what Lightroom already has, but includes plenty that Lightroom doesn't have (geoencoding, video support, and face recognition are a few of the headline features, but it's actually in the small details that one often finds salve to a workflow irritation).<\/p>

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