We haven’t been posting much to the site lately and I need to apologize for that. Three things happened:
1. I had a baby a couple of months ago and I’ve spent all the time I can with her.
2. Work. Lots of it. Which is good, but has left me with no spare time.
3. My doubts about sticking with Aperture as my photography management application.
The third one is the relevant for this site. I’ve been using Aperture for a few years and have really loved it to the point that …

It’s probably old news by now and we don’t really talk about this type of thing on the shutter station site, but I just can’t help it. And I’ve been really slack at updating the site recently (having a baby in 2 weeks, so life is pretty hectic at the moment), so a quick update is due to let everyone know we’re still alive!
It’s come from a bunch of sources now, but I first saw the rumor on Twitter. It seems a book was mistakenly released for pre-order in Amazon …

There are many ways of converting a color photograph into black-and-white in post-production. The quick and easy way is to just convert to grayscale or desaturate completely the image, but these are in almost every situation, your worst possible option as you have absolutely no control. As an introduction, I suggest you go over our Think About Color post before continuing.
If you’re using Photoshop CS3, a good way of converting a photograph to black-and-white is to use the Black and White adjustment layer. This will give you a great deal …

In an article a few weeks ago on embracing the grain in your black-and-white photography, I suggested you “put your camera in black-and-white” for the specific exercise I wrote about. Shortly after I published it, some of you have asked me why I don’t shoot in color and then convert to black-and-white afterwards, and a handful also stated the benefits of doing so.
Well, that’s exactly what I do most of the time as it gives me far greater control on the greyscale tones of final the image. As described in …

I first heard about Jason Langer while listening to an interview on the Thoughts on Photography podcast by Paul Giguere a few weeks ago. The interview was quite fascinating and it got me interested in his work, so as soon as I got home I visited his website and spent some time checking out his photography. Man, am I glad it did it. His work is truly exceptional.
Since I discovered him I’ve been so fascinated by his work that I just had to share it. Jason Langer is a remarkable …

For those who prefer reading than watching the video, a full transcript is below.

Transcript from the Apple Aperture Library review video.
Today I want to share with you how I organise my Aperture Library. This is one of those things that I struggled with at first and I couldn’t find enough information on the web to help me get started. I don’t know why, but this seems to be one of those things photographers don’t like or want to share. Anyway, after a lot of trial and error and changing things around …