Took a while but I got some pics processed from my son's Cub Scout "Go-See-It" to Pioneer Farms here in Austin last weekend. Here are three of them. Still working on the ones in color. [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
Some more from the Farm, in color I really love how Aperture 2 portrayed the blues in these shots. JPG doesn't do it justice either. <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2258/2270863678_cca4018625_o.jpg" /> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/2270860730_173c63ceb9_o.jpg" /> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2270067635_6c3db74885_o.jpg" />
Oh, lovely shots, Roger! Looks like you are getting the hang of Aperture's editing tools fairly quickly.
Yeah, trying to get the hang of it! Glad they added the healing/clone tool. After the shot, almost all of them had a booger in view, but was weird to me was that it was darker when I underexposed. Found the dust on the rear element of my lens. Glad it wasn't the sensor. Self-cleaning means just that doesn't it?
I was at the Apple store Friday night and spent some time with Aperture. The healing tool is very similar to iPhoto's version so that will be easy for me to use. But...the new edge detection is something I will use to re-edit a few dozen pictures where iPhoto couldn't give me the results I needed.
I think my favorite of the bunch has to be the middle one of the first batch. I'm digging the old timey look. Clarify something for me, though. It doesn't look black and white (or more accurately, monochrome) to me. But at the same time I can only see color in the clothing. Is that a selective color job, or did you fade the colors to the point where those were the only colors showing? It's strange to me. I almost never get into black and white shots, I used to enjoy B&W shooting very much but once I went color I never looked back. But in this group I couldn't get into the color images. The blue sky is very nice, but the color images just don't interest me since you started us off with black and white. Although on further reflection, the green wheel barrow shot is very nice. I guess it's the content. Especially that partial color one, it looks so believably antique. Perhaps that's incorrect, I doubt the period clothing matches up with what would be appropriate period photography technology, but it looks authentic to me anyway.
Aperture has a color monochrome filter; I used that to obtain the look to #2, Set 1. I was playing around to get to that look. It also has a specific sepia filter, but those just weren't right.
Very nice Roger. I really like 1 and 2 of the first set. Like Dan, I really like the coloring of #2. It does look very authentic
