How do you choose a Capture One RAW file storage location? Capture One is flexible. That’s one of the things that makes it superior to the alternatives (also, it produces better results and is faster, but I digress). That flexibility can be a little confusing to new photographers and those converting from Lightroom to Capture […]
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Bird Photography at Bosque del Apache
If you’ve never been, you might not be sure what to expect at Bosque del Apache. During the winter, from mid November through late January, it hosts huge flocks of migratory snow geese and sandhill cranes as well as many other species. It is an amazing place if you love to photograph birds. Check out […]
Looking At the Exposure Triangle in the Right Way
A student will ask “How do I pick exposure settings?” The question comes up during almost every class, whether it is milky way photography, bird photography, landscape photography or even a destination workshop. They don’t mean just choosing some “proper” exposure. Instead, they are asking how to pick one of the numerous correct equivalent exposure […]
Workflow: Using Google Photos as a Master Archive
A Google Photos master archive can be a game changer for your photography. Master Archives are a powerful tool for breaking out of RAW editor lock in, but they are also the key to unlocking your photos for easy use. A Google Photos master archive puts your entire archive of works at your fingertips to […]
Workflow: Setting up a Master Photography Archive
Sooner or later, every photographer finds a reason to split up their RAW catalog, change RAW tools, or even use multiple RAW editors for different projects. Even if they continue to use the same RAW tool, projects will start being split between catalogs, by year, or month, or project to combat the tool grinding to […]
Beyond Tack Sharp
What is the goal of photography? Is it to document the literal world? If so what does that mean? Photographers make a huge number of choices (or abdicate many of them to the camera) when they take a picture. What depth of field is used? How much motion blur is captured? Is the photo noisy […]
Capture One: Exporting Finished Photos with Recipes
A Capture One Process Recipe provides an easy way to export photos from within the standard editing workflow. There is no dialog box or other step to break your editing. You can process images through one or multiple process recipes at the same time. And thanks to Capture One’s highly configurable interface you can add […]
Why isn’t my photo in focus? – 5 Common Problems
One of the most common questions I see during my private photography tutoring sessions is “Why isn’t my photo in focus?” and variants like “why aren’t my photos sharp?” and “I can’t seem to get sharp photos…” Creating images that are in sharp focus and that appear sharp is fairly straightforward, but there are a […]