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Posted on June 19, 2012 // 2 Comments
Dinoland at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom

Dinoland — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

Dinoland

Doesn’t every­one have a Bron­tosaurus in their back yard? I hap­pened to find one of those rare time when Walt Dis­ney World’s Ani­mal King­dom was open past sun­set. This is an area of the park I’ve always avoided dur­ing the day, but it seemed to take on a dif­fer­ent per­son­al­ity at night. The lights really helped the car­ni­val atmos­phere and — be hon­est — who can resist a smil­ing yel­low dinosaur?

Aper­ture or Lightroom

I have quite unin­ten­tion­ally turned this blog into a mag­net for peo­ple who are search­ing for infor­ma­tion about Aper­ture, Light­room, or both. By far, the most pop­u­lar search that brings peo­ple here is “Aper­ture vs Light­room.” Unfor­tu­nately, I think the posts I have on those top­ics aren’t as help­ful for most peo­ple who arrive by that search.

What they need is a resource that com­pares the fea­tures of both prod­ucts and deliv­ers infor­ma­tion about the way they work. They’re try­ing to decide between two very capa­ble prod­ucts, but they don’t want to get sur­prised by some fea­ture (or miss­ing fea­ture) in one and then real­ize they should have bought the other.

With that in mind, I’m work­ing on a new resource to help peo­ple com­par­ing Aper­ture and Light­room. Should you buy one or the other? Should you dump one and switch to the other? We’ll find out soon enough. I’ll let you know when there’s more to share.

If you have any other ques­tions about Aper­ture vs Light­room, please let me know in the comments.

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Author, Photographer and IT Manager. I have a fondness for chocolate. I also own Suburbia Press and Aperture vs Lightroom.

  • http://blog.duanepandorf.com Duane Pan­dorf

    I’m an Aper­ture user but had seri­ously looked at switch­ing to LR4. In fact I did buy it via Adobe’s down­load option. Once installed, I had prob­lems with my Nik Plu­g­ins work­ing cor­rectly. I know they were able to cor­rect this but the file man­age­ment sys­tem under LR4 was what really turned me off.

    I found I really like the way Aper­ture han­dles your files, either man­aged or ref­er­enced or com­bi­na­tion of the two.

    My main machine for edit­ing is a Mac­Book Pro and I’m eas­ily able to locate and access my images stored both inter­nally and externally.

    The main rea­son I looked at switch­ing was I wasn’t sat­is­fied with Aperture’s skin tone white bal­ance. I was just not get­ting the results I could get from LR4. How­ever, that has changed with this lat­est Aper­ture update. This is a major update for my work along with the Auto Enhance func­tion and new High­lights and Shadow tool.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Pixie.Dust.Pictures Scott Bax­ter

    I have never really under­stood why Dinoland seems to be so hated by Dis­ney fans. I think it does an excel­lent job in theme for the area. Every­one always brings up Walt’s deroga­tory state­ment about car­ni­vals, but I believe the crit­i­cism had more to do with the seed­i­ness, lack of clean­li­ness, and fly-​by-​night nature of those venues than of the way they looked (or could look if they were cleaner). Pirates aren’t exactly the most whole­some folks around which to build an attrac­tion, but that didn’t stop Walt. I think Dinoland has lots of inten­tion­ally kitschy visual charm, and it reminds me a lot of the lit­tle tourist trap places we used to visit on our trav­els through the state when I was a kid. Part of me is sorry to see those places essen­tially gone now, like old Route 66. I appre­ci­ate the games in that land for their visual appeal — I haven’t ever spent a dime on any of them. I think you’re right about night­fall help­ing the place; we always used to visit the county fair at night, and I imag­ine that’s true for a lot of oth­ers as well.

    I cer­tainly can’t resist a smil­ing yel­low dinosaur, and nei­ther can my boys. On our last trip, my two-​year old spot­ted the big guy from afar and said, “Oooh — BIG Resky!” “Resky” was his best shot at pro­nounc­ing “Rex,” which is what he called all dinosaurs because of the char­ac­ter from the Toy Story films. And as we got closer, he added “Awww … he’s a happy one!”