Lumière d’Argent

Colin Jago’s excellent blog is focused on colour problems for some time now. At the beginning I was reading out of theoretical interest. But the recent posts have me think about my own way of working. For several months my workflow has been:

1. Import from the card in Aperture, getting the basic filing/key-wording sorted out.
2. Backup, just two clicks in Aperture and my new pictures are on three disks.
3. Editing in Aperture.
4. For the interesting ones, refining the tones in LightZone.

Colin lead me to re-evaluate Raw Developer, for which I have a license. It is indeed an extremely good program. So the good ones will now transit through Raw Developer between Aperture and LightZone.

Stephane :: Jul.07.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »

I just posted the following on Colin’s blog:

I find raw converters are very much like film developers. Only in digital we can process the same photograph in several developers and compare.My main developer is Aperture. I find it very good for processing what is on the card when I return. At the same time I file and backup everything, it is so handy for that. It also allows me to get quite far near what a final print would look like. Then, if in doubt, I can process the very few interesting ones in Raw Developer and Lightzone. If none of those three will give me satisfying results then I give up. But it has never happened. Most of the time Aperture is enough.Of course, like with developers, it depends on what film you use, ie. the sensor. so for an M8 it is very likely my developer of choice could be different.

I then realized it would be a relevant entry here

Stephane :: Jul.02.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »