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 […]
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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 […]
Photographer’s Emergency Survival Kit
If you hike much, and especially if you hike in wilderness away from other people, you need to think about how you will survive a worst case scenario. What happens if you experience a major injury or get lost? What happens if you can’t make it back to your vehicle or other people quickly enough? […]
Workflow: Setting up a Project Based Workflow
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 […]
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 […]