Indeed, one of the strengths of Lightroom compared to Aperture is that it does not hide your photos in some arcane folder structure: you specify *exactly* which folder/directory you want to move your photos into (if importing them from a card), or you simply "add" a pre-existing folder structure to the Lightroom catalogue which does not change the location of the photos at all.
I find LR to be more intuitive than Aperture in that regard.
The Benro video tripod has been sold, but the Slik U9000 is
still available.
Thank-you for the update on the Slik Tripod price. Obviously
I can't ask $50 for a used version if a new one is the same
cost. Therefore, I'm asking about $30 for it.
I have two tripods for sale, available to a good home. The first one is a Slik U9000 in good to very-good condition. The second is a mint-condition Benro A1573SF2 video tripod.
I'm considering about $50 for the Slik and $150 for the Benro, but all reasonable offers will be considered.
Free pick-up/delivery in southern California, or I can mail them.
Please send me a message if interested in one or both.
Catherine
Who here has already switched from Aperture to Lightroom, and what software did you use (ApertureExporter from the Mac App store or LR's built-in importer?
Can anybody give advice as to what I should (or should not) do? How do I best manage the switch? What pitfalls should I watch out for?
I have about 10 separate Aperture libraries, some big, some not, but all with a lot of separate events, albums and smart-albums contained there-in. Hopefully when I import them into LR I don't get duplicates of all the photos that belong to both an event and an album.
I'm just ramping up the learning curve with Lightroom myself following Apple's move to discontinue Aperture. Even though I'm a Mac devotee, I must admit that I like Lightroom better - it has a lot more features and I like not having all my photo buried deep within the internal file structure.
I have a question for people who have already migrated their Aperture libraries to Lightroom: what "aperture exporter" software do you recommend? There's an exporter software available on the App store, and I think that Lightroom 5.7 also includes a software to export your Aperture libraries to a format that you can import into Lightroom.
I'd love to hear about people's experiences migrating from Aperture to Lightroom.
For further-afield trips I second the recommendation of Organ Pipe, and would also mention the Chiricahua Mountains and Bisbee - a cool old mining town turned artist's colony. The aviation museum is really something, and the desert museum is a must. The "Old Tucson" studios are neat for a fun day out.
It's also nice to just wander through the older neighborhoods in the center of town, and the Barrio Historico just to the south of downtown. These are really unique places and so much better than the usual suburban sprawl that infects the outlying areas.
If you have time for a day trip, I recommend either the Organ Pipe Cactus
National Monument (be prepared for dirt roads) out to the SW of town,
or the Chiricahuas and Bisbee out to the SE. Both of these destinations
are a solid day trip but worth it if time permits.
Walk around Armory Park and Barrio Viejo to the south of downtown and the
Arizona Inn neighbourhood to the north of the University to enjoy places that look and feel like nowhere else in the country.
The Saguaro National Parks are a must (both East and West), as is the San Xavier Mission.
There's a lot to see, but be sure to take some time for neighbourhood wanders.
I like Photoshop Elements - not free but it does most of what the full-blown Photoshop does for a mere fraction of the price. Look on Amazon and EBay for cheaper/slightly older versions.