I’m currently down in Delray Beach Florida, visiting with family, and I had a bit of time this morning to play around with Aperture 3 (sorry PC users, this is for Mac fans only, download free trial here) which I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. Yesterday morning I went for a little nature walk at sunrise, at the Green Caye Nature Preserve in Boynton Beach Florida.
We’ll for all of you iPhone users out there, I found a really cool feature, that Aperture has, that Lightroom doesn’t. If you follow my blog posts, you know I’m a huge fan of a Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, but the new version of Aperture, really has some amazing new features. In any event, I decided to edit my shoot from yesterdays walkabout in Aperture. While I was in Green Caye, I had popped out my iPhone, when I first got there, and took one shot of the sunrise, when I walked in there. Did you know that whenever you take a photo with your iPhone, that the photo is instantly geotagged, with satellite information, based on your GPS coordinates. It does not matter what cellphone provider you use, or even if you have an internet connection.
You can select your photos in Aperture, and than you can choose a corresponding image on your iPhone, based on the location you shot the images, and tag all of the images with the satellite information. I’ve included 2 images below as an example. The first one is the screen grab of the Satellite info, that Aperture 3 gives you, and the 2nd one is just one of the images of a black bird that I photographed while in Green Caye.
I think this is a pretty cool new feature of Aperture 3, that I may find many uses for when shooting stock photography, and eliminates the need for carrying around a geotagging device for your photos. Hmm am I ready to switch to Aperture yet? Well I’m not sure, but stay tuned, as I continue to use it, and find out what other strong features it has.
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