How to get good exterior photos while shooting towards the sun

By Rudy Lopez, on September 18th, 2008%

North facing structures are notoriously hard to photograph. A beautiful home can look like a mash of very dark shadows and harsh angles if it faces north. This home in Westminster, Colorado has fantastic curb appeal, but it’s north facing front door and large garage doors make it a challenge to convey the drama . . . → Read More: How to get good exterior photos while shooting towards the sun

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Aperture 2 Tutorials #2 – Selecting, Editing, Cropping, and Exporting Photos

By Rudy Lopez, on August 16th, 2008%

Now that your new images have been cataloged in the Aperture 2 library, it’s time to select, edit, and export the shots. You will need files that are versatile, good for print and web. Excerpt from the video: This tutorial will lead you through the selection, editing, cropping and rename-export process.

  1. Open Aperture 2 and select the project you want to work on.
  2. Click the Quick Preview icon to keep RAW images from loading while making selections.
  3. Make your selections by clicking the green checkmark. This will assign 5 stars to the image. You can isolate your favorite images by filtering the five star rated images.
  4. You will need to disable Quick Preview in order to edit the images.
  5. Watch the following video for the rest of the tutorial.

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