Aperture at the NBA playoffs

Anytime a new version of a major app like Aperture is released, people always wonder how it stacks up in real-world conditions. Check this out: On deadline Thomas Boyd chose Aperture to handle the photos from three photographers and nine cameras to make sure he got the pictures to his newspaper on time.

I want to emphasize something here. I adjusted, exported and sent images back to the office while Aperture was still importing those very images off the CF card. My photo editor at the paper was looking the images before they were off the CF card the photographer shot them on. That is astounding to me.

I’m at the point now, that when I look around the room as I’m heading out the door at the dozen or so photographers hunched over Photo Mechanic and Photoshop, I just smile and wonder why they don’t wonder why I’m leaving for home before they do. They are really working much harder than they need to.

Aperture 3.03 Editing Three Photographers Using Nine Cameras at the NBA Playoffs [MacCreate]

eric

I'm loving Aperture 3. I use it in tethered mode with my Canon 5D Mark II at work to pull stills and video as I shoot on a microscope. I wish its tethering was direct with the camera, but Canon changed how their latest cameras do tethering – for no good reason – and so I have to use a watched folder and script from Sal Soghoian. And it doesn't automatically pick up the videos I shoot, but once the files are in Aperture, it's killer. And the ability to transfer and merge libraries makes it a very powerful tool.

Sure wish I had had something like it back in the day. But then digital was just getting started when I was ending my newspaper photojournalism career, and film was still dominant. I can only dream of the photos I could have done with the extra time to shoot.