I had a couple of things in mind for the new toy when we got it:
Try the Aperture trial edition and work with RAW images.
Experiment with HDR imaging, preferably via exposure bracketing.
I’m still working on both. Right now, the Apple device page lists three Fuji cameras; the S6000fd is not one of them. It may be possible to pass camera files through the Fuji software and thence into Aperture; I don’t know yet.
HDR is more interesting. To get images like this:
or this:
you take a series of images at different F-stops, and then use software to combine them into a single image. (There’s much more detail about the theory and such on Wikipedia page.) Best case is if your camera supports exposure bracketing. In that case, the camera takes 3 or more images, with the main exposure bracketed by plus or minus 1 or more f-stops. According to this page:
To get good results, it is important that each one of the source photos are taken with a sufficiently different exposure in order to properly cover the dynamic range of the scene. Taking three photos separated by two EVs (i.e. two full-stops), or five photos separated by one EV, will be sufficient for most outdoors scenes.
(This page lists support for auto exposure (AEB) bracketing by camera.)
Anyway, the S6000fd does have AEB, but only +- 1 f-stop. Seems to be minimal for HDR. So this camera is not ideal for it. Not that I’ve gotten it to work yet, need to try the tripod and fiddle a bit more. Then again, images like this seem like they’re worth the effort:
You can find a ton of examples of HDR on Flickr.
So overall, no joy on Aperture (yet) and mostly research and fiddling on the HDR side. I posted this to spur interest and see if anyone else is doing similar things.