Hi. I wonder if someone have a good general workflow or tips for editing iPhone images in Aperture. I wNt them to look as good as possible. Are there any general settings for cromatic abberation, sharpening, and such? Tips would be appreciated.
Hi. I wonder if someone have a good general workflow or tips for editing iPhone images in Aperture. I wNt them to look as good as possible. Are there any general settings for cromatic abberation, sharpening, and such? Tips would be appreciated.
iPhone is no different from other jpg-only cameras Here is what I do, mostly in this order
1) delete the junk
2) light cropping, as this might effect the next step
3) exposure correct, possible "recovry" (use histogram to help judge)
4) white balance, using eyedroper tool
5) Now find the "best" images.
6) any kind of "editing" to change the best ones image, if required. Retouch, dodge, burn or whatever
7) Deleted more images (deleting improves the average quality of the library and save work in the next step.)
8) meta data and tags get added
You can not sharpen a photo until you have resized it for export. It is always bad to sharpen before re-sizing, it just adds noise.
I would re-word #5 to: "Rate images". This gives long lasting benefits.
BTW: I never rate anything at 5 stars during the initial rating. For me... 5 stars is reserved for after editing... for very few photos.
/Jim
I reserve 5 for publishable images that people would like even if there were not familiar with the subject.
4 can be good just because it is my kid in the picture of some place I went or whatever.
most of what I take at 3 stars
2 stars are good enough to maybe tell a story, they might be used in a slide show. Like to say "here is what happened in the parking lot after the hike. The image would not stand alone by itself
1 means it is a poor image but is being kept because it provides a record of some person or event or place and I don't have a better record.
Per my plan... for a big trip (ex: 2 weeks in Hawaii)... I might have 2000 photos. Of those... I might start with 200 4* and 400 3*... clearly too many... but it is sometimes hard for me to give lower ratings.
I would expect 150 (4* - 5* ) to be in a book... 300 (3* - 5*) to be in a slideshow. Generally, if something gets published in a book... it probably is also in a slideshow.
/Jim
As a digital shooter who shoots a lot of film these are the sort of figures that I find crazy!
2000 images! I recently took two film cameras on my holiday to france and took 5 rolls of 35mm, 10 120 and didnt even use them all.
I have finally scanned them in and I would say at least 50% I am really happy with.
In total I probably took just over 250shots over 19 days. If you are taking 2000 over a fortnight thats over 140 shots a day!
Just out of curiosity do you shoot and think later or start shooting trying to find that shot? I ask because since moving to film I have started to think more and more about why I am taking the shot and whether it is worth it. It almost seems to me like 2000 is more hassle than its worth?