Merry Christmas!!! part 2
All posts by Gage Caudell
Merry Christmas!!!
Our little girl is now 4 years old and one of my greatest memories is our first trip to Disney and her meeting all her favorite Disney Characters. The image below was taken when she was only 2 years old. We were in line to see Woody and he was finished standing, taking pictures and we were initially disappointed that she was not going to meet him. He immediately came up to her and asked her if she would hold his hand and walk with him. She happily excepted and her big blue eyes just glowed with excitement. Funniest thing, she was asking him if he would ride the merry-go-round with her.
Leica M 240 ISO 200 f.34 1/1000 50mm summicron APO
Leica MM 246 ISO 3200 f2 1/125 50mm summicron APO
Leica MM 246 ISO 1000 f5.6 1/250 28-35-50mm tri-elmar version 2
Phase One XF IQ380 ISO 100 f2.8 1/4000 Schneider 80mm
Sony a7rII ISO 640 f2.0 1/250 55mm f1.8
Leica MM 246 ISO 5000 f2 1/125 50mm summilux
I was asked on another forum how I integrate Phase One Capture One into my post-processing workflow. Well, here it is. I’ve been using it for a 4 months and absolutely love it. Personally, I believe it is significantly better than Lightroom in regards to post-processing RAW files. I use Lightroom to finalize simple adjustments and as my storage library.
You can find more information on Phase One Capture One software here.
You can also find many Capture One “how to” videos on YouTube here.
Start Capture One. Go to “File” and click on “New Session”.
New menu pops up. Create name for your “session”. I typically use the scheme below, number, month, year, and camera. Click “ok”.
After the app is open, I then import my images.
Images are imported to the “Capture Folder”. I then begin grading my images, “green” to keep, “red” to trash.
Next, I go to the “Filters” tab and highlight just the “red” colored images. I then select all of them and through them into the trash (trash folder in C1). If I’m confident I don’t need any of them, I will then empty the trash folder.
I then return to the “Capture folder” and highlight “Green” color filter. I will then make my adjustments. Once I’m done I will grade them one more time and the ones I want to export, I will make them “5 stars”.
I will then move my “5 star” images to the “select folder” and then from there I will process them. I typically process them at original size, 8 bit tiff. I will do 16 bit tiff when shooting landscape.
Now if you go to the “session folder” you will find 4 folders.
I will then move the entire “session folder” to my final photo library (located on an external hard drive). I will then open Lightroom and import the “session folder” “output folder”. From here I will apply any keywords and grading (i.e. pick flag and star grading system).
I make the majority of my adjustments of in Capture One and will do image cropping, dust removal, and presets such as VSCO film presets in Lightroom. I find making these adjustments easier in Lightroom.
Hopefully this helps anyone who is interested in using Capture One. Yes, it’s a process but overtime I have gotten very quick at it and don’t find it slowing my post-processing down.
Gage
Leica SL ISO 800 f.95 1/250 50mm noctilux
