I use a project based workflow. Every single photo shoot ends up in its own catalog. I use Capture One’s Inside Catalog as my storage location, so my catalog directories are self contained. With a little forethought, Lightroom users can do the same. Setting up a project based workflow is easy. For a more in […]
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Capture One Imports: 3 Powerful Methods
Capture One imports are highly flexible. Like many things in Capture One, it doesn’t require you to adopt any particular directory structure or import method. Instead, you can configure it on an import by import basis to do whatever you like. Or, you can keep life simple and let Capture One Imports handle things. There […]
Capture One: Changing Background Colors Using Adjustment Layers
How do I change the background color in capture one? Sometimes I can’t control the color of the background during a photo shoot and I have to change the background color in post production. Normally, I would go Affinity Photo and make use of it’s superior masking tools. Capture One added a powerful Refine Mask […]
Affinity Photo: Clone, Heal, Patch and In-Paint
There are a couple different Affinity Photo image repair tools: clone, healing, blemish, patch and in-paint. Each of these tools has a use case, a particular kind of problem it is good at solving. And, there is plenty of overlap. You can solve the same problems with many of them. Which you choose is a […]
Workflow: Taming the Beast by Splitting Your Photo Catalogs
In my previous post about high level workflow design and breaking vendor lock-in, I referenced different types of workflows: the monolithic, semi-monolithic and project based workflow. I didn’t go into detail then (that post was already getting long), but now it is time to talk about them in detail. This article is primarily about the […]
Workflow: High Level Design and Breaking Lock-In
Once upon a time, there was Lightroom, and only one catalog. All photos went into this catalog for editing and searching. Then the catalog got bloated and slow. Adobe started to charge a monthly fee to access the photographers own archive. It became impossible to tell what images were finished and which still needed work […]
Workflow: Backup Strategies for Photographers
Backups should be a key part of any photographers workflow. It isn’t a matter of if you will have a storage device fail, but when. However, many photographers, amateur and pro alike, lack the background knowledge to understand what is really needed. In this post I will explore backup strategies for photographers including risk analysis, […]
Volunteering? 7 Questions to Ask Yourself First
If you’ve been a photographer for more than a week, regardless of your pro or amateur status, you probably been approached to volunteer to take pictures for one group or another. Those of us that have been around for a while have developed a 6th sense of how to sniff out the “Volunteer Opportunities” that […]