John McDermott: Making Final Selects
How I Use Aperture
A photo journalist for more than 30 years, John McDermott finds that Aperture helps him make selects — a normally tedious process — quickly, easily and enjoyably. In this video, watch as McDermott flies though a 1000-image edit with Quick Preview, goes Full Screen view to examine images up close, quickly perfects photos with Aperture’s strong imaging tools, and exports his final selects in the background while reviewing other images.
John McDermott Portfolio
Jim Richardson: On Visual Storytelling
How I use Aperture
In his video, Jim Richardson, a National Geographic photographer for more than 25 years, describes how he uses Aperture to easily create interesting and visually engaging photo essays. For The Celtic Realm, Richardson imported, rated and assigned keywords to 43,000 photos. Using Smart Albums, he effortlessly collected photos for each of his themes. And he used the Light Table to make final selects.
Jim Richardson Portfolio
Bob Davis: Perfecting the Image
How I use Aperture
An award-winning photojournalist for 14 years, Bob Davis relishes the fact that Aperture provides all the tools he needs to select and perfect images before he leaves a location. In this video, he uses a variety of adjustment tools to bring the most out of his images: Recovery and Black Point to recover lost detail; Vibrancy to add saturation without affecting skin tones; the Retouch brush to remove distracting elements; and Vignette for artistic effect.
Bob Davis Portfolio
Sara France: Creating a Photo Book
How I use Aperture
Wedding and portrait photographer Sara France loves Aperture books, because I can fully customise each layout to create unique, great-looking products for clients. In her video, she shows how to use the flexible layout editor in Aperture to place, resize and reposition images. Ready access to adjustment tools means that France can even make a spot colour adjustment on the fly.
