The Aper­ture vs Light­room Blog

Last week, I men­tioned that I wanted to pro­vide a resource to help peo­ple under­stand two of the most pop­u­lar dig­i­tal asset man­agers on the pho­tog­ra­phy mar­ket. With that in mind, I’ve started a new blog called Aper­ture vs Light­room. It’s just get­ting started, but I think I have the back-​end ele­ments in place and now I can start pro­vid­ing some rel­e­vant con­tent by eval­u­at­ing fea­tures in Aper­ture and Lightroom.

My ini­tial idea was to do head to head com­par­isons. For exam­ple, com­pare sub­jects like Import­ing or Teth­er­ing in each arti­cle. While I may do that on occa­sion, it turns out that prob­a­bly won’t be the best approach. There are some fea­tures in both prod­ucts that may work for such com­par­isons, but it also leads to very long arti­cles. Also, what would I do when it was time to review fea­tures in one prod­uct that didn’t exist in the other? Most impor­tantly, I don’t really want to take sides. I just want to pro­vide infor­ma­tion that peo­ple can use to form their own opin­ions about these prod­ucts. My needs and your needs may be com­pletely dif­fer­ent. I’ll try to point out instances when I see a clear ben­e­fit to one prod­uct or the other. How­ever, I sus­pect some of you will be able to bring up issues I hadn’t considered.

If you have ques­tions that you’d like me to address, or ques­tions about fea­tures, please let me know in the com­ments. Both prod­ucts are excel­lent tools, which makes the choice dif­fi­cult for plenty of folks. I want to make this a use­ful resource, so your input is very much appre­ci­ated. Thanks!

The Dark Side Clouds Everything

The Dark Side Clouds Every­thing — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

I have a num­ber of friends who live in Col­orado who are deal­ing with the wild­fires burn­ing across the land­scape. Some have let me know they’re alright, oth­ers haven’t been able to respond to me and I don’t know how they’re doing. Dur­ing The Grid yes­ter­day on Kelby TV, Scott men­tioned that pho­tog­ra­pher Dave Black has been evac­u­ated twice and fears he may have lost his home. Many more peo­ple are in a sim­i­lar predica­ment with no idea how things will turn out.

Although many of us feel rather help­less, there are still ways to lend a hand. One of those ways is to make a dona­tion to the Red Cross, Sal­va­tion Army, Good­will, or another char­ity of your choos­ing. The peo­ple who had to evac­u­ate their homes will need food, shel­ter, cloth­ing and other basic neces­si­ties of life. Please help if you can.