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Photographers and the iPhone

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Jul 1st, 2008

AppleMatters has published a great list of their top ten ways photographers can benefit from the iPhone. From sharing your portfolio on-the-go to note taking, it's a good list. My favorite is the example of a wedding photographer who keeps a sort of "check list" of shots to get (grouped shots, individual shots, etc.) as a reference on his phone.

We've seen people use the iPhone's camera to create to-do lists, share instructional videos and more. On a recent car shopping expedition, I made a gallery of all the vehicles I test drove for reference and comparison at home.

What's your favorite uncommon use of the iPhone?

Tags: iphone, photographer, photography

Filed under: Hardware, Cult of Mac, Rig of the Week

Rig of the Year (So Far)

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Jan 2nd, 2007

Digg today brings us our first TUAW rig of the day/week/month/year. Owned by flickr user washington_dc_photographer, this workstation sports three 30 inch Apple Cinema displays, 1 G5 Quad, 1 G5 Dual, 1 15 inch PowerBook, 6TB of external storage, 6 CF card readers, and a 15 inch Sony wireless TV. I can only imagine the kind of money that he must have spent on this setup, but I certainly see why this would be needed for a full time professional photographer shooting large RAW files and running Aperture.

In any case, this setup certainly sets a high bar for future 2007 rigs, so don't forget to submit yours to the TUAW flickr pool.

Tags: awesome, digg, photographer, rig, tuaw, workstation

Filed under: Multimedia, Software

Adobe releases Lightroom beta 3

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jun 16th, 2006

This one slipped past us: Adobe has released a third beta of Lightroom, their Aperture-competitor for professional photographers. The release notes are in PDF (I guess HTML is old news for the company who owns both Flash and Acrobat), but overall, improvements include: enhancements to import/export options, live comparisons of image adjustments in Before and After previews, a new straightening tool and a new heavily-requested Web export module with HTML and Flash options.

The new beta can be had here by Mac users, while a beta for Windows (oddly) is yet to be seen. If, for some odd reason, you'd like to be notified when a beta is available for Windows, a sign-up notification form is here.

[thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Tags: adobe, beta, edit, image, Lightroom, manipulate, photo, photographer, photography, picture, professional

Filed under: Software

Macworld reviews Aperture 1.0.1

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Dec 28th, 2005

Macworld has taken Aperture 1.0.1 for a spin and they like what they see, for the most part. It seems like the phrase 'diamond in the rough' might be the best way to describe Apple's latest prosumer app. There are lots of bugs to deal with, a sluggish interface, and some RAW concerns that may trouble someone looking to plunk down $500 on some software.

However, with that said, Macworld finds loads to like about Aperture as well, including the robust organizational methods that Aperture allows you to use.

I'm sure lots of use would like to take Aperture for a test drive, but Apple hasn't released a demo version. I wonder why not.

Tags: aperture, apple, macworld, photographer, prosumer

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