PS Shadow and Aperture Shadows

I hope and describe this correctly.
I shoot in Raw with a Canon 30D. I was using iPhoto until recently when I purchased the new 24" iMac. Before I would import all my pics into iPhoto then open one I wanted to adjust in photoshop. It would open the raw in Photoshop and let me adjust the shadows up or down then crop and etc.
However in Aperture I import my pics from my Camera and I attempt to do exposure and Shadow adjustment in Aperture prior to opening it in Photoshop. This is were my problem is.
I shoot photos of babies and alot of times I have black background, daddy has black shirt and babie is in his arms. The final product goal is to see nothing but the baby. However in Aperture I can not deepen the shadows like I could in PS. The shadow slider starts out at 0.0 and will only let me recover the dark areas not make them darker. If I use exposure setting it alters all the photo.
What am I missing? I am providing a link to my gallery for the sole reason if you want to see an example of what I am after with the shadows.
http://www.studioainsley.com/-/studioainsley/gallery.asp?cat=37578&pID=1&row=5&p hotoID=2663283&searchTerm=
Thanks
iMac 24" Mac OS X (10.4.7) Aperture 1.1

You're confusing the controls between the two programs (ACR and Aperture).
You were using ACR in Photoshop to process your raw files. In that software the shadow slider is the black point.
In Aperture the black point can be set via the Levels control. The shadow control you refer to in Aperture is for recovering shadow detail (like the shadow/highlights tool in Photoshop).

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