Aperture and Wedding Photography

Now that I've gotten back my Powerbook from repair, I'm able to start using Apple's Aperture again. Though I've been using Lightroom, I think utimately I'm going to use Aperture for most of wedding projects. Aperture 1.5 is more fully functional for me than Lightroom, and it provides some workflow solutions that are not yet present in Lightroom. While I love the design interface of Lightroom and its intuitive and easy workflow, Aperture is far better for organizing and managing digital files.

Before sending my Powerbook off for repair, I had started to develop a written workflow for processing my wedding projects using Aperture. One of the niciest things included in Aperture by default is a list of keywords for wedding projects. The list is extensive and will help any wedding photography get started with managing his or her wedding images in the application.

Also, the neat thing about Aperture is the ability to work with preview files while your original files are off-line. This speads up the process of keywording, rating, and selecting images for your workflow.

I'll be adding blog entries on Aperture as I go along. I'll also continue to work in Lightroom because I'm interested in the direction that this Adobe application will take.