iphoto or aperture? which to choose and why?

[CALI SHOT DOC]

I have both iPhoto and aperture on my macbook pro and i am trying to decide which app i want to use exclusively for my photo storing. i take a lot of photos and do some editing but not all that much. Should i just use aperture and forget about iPhoto? What do you guys do? I'm trying to get organized so any help would be great.

[Ark]

I'm a casual photographer and have a jillion images in storage. For minor editing, crops, levels, exposure, etc... iPhoto should do you well. Aperture is iPhoto on roids, if you paid for Aperture, I say keep with that.

Do you shoot raw? Stay with Aperture.

[ocabj]

When you say photo storing, does that mean you want managed libraries exclusively? Or is your real question what application should you use to manage/edit your photos?

Either way, I'd go Aperture over iPhone. You simply have more capabilities for edits and management.

Personally, I use Lightroom with referenced libraries pointing to my manually managed photos stored in the following directory structure style:
/<photos_dirname>/<camera_body>/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD