I get to decide how much I want to lose if I go with a soft look like my original. This will enable me to make up my own mind about how much of the detail I want to maintain. Nevertheless, my second point is that, as I’ll import work from future shoots directly into Capture One, I’ll now be able to see the detail. When I asked my wife about the Capture One version, she said the crane looks like a chicken. However, it was pretty easy to bring it closer to how I wanted the image, while maintaining the detail. The first one being that, as I imported my RAW file without Lightroom modifications, I had to play with the Levels in Capture One to boost the image. There are a few things that we need to bear in mind at this point. Tanchou Study #7 – Lightroom (left) and Capture One (right) Regardless of which one you prefer, I’m sure you’ll notice that the Capture One version has a huge amount of detail, compared to my Lightroom version. To illustrate, you can see my original Lightroom version (left) and the first Capture One version (right). In Lightroom, I didn’t even know that the detail was there, so the choice didn’t even exist! My point is, in Capture One I’m able to see details, which I can keep or dial down. I’ll probably dial that down a little again to the more dreamy look from my original. Before I show you the new version, I want you to know that there’s perhaps too much detail visible. This, some of you might recognize from the cover of my Making the Print eBook. The Red-Crowned Crane study was my first image to explore. I saw details that I didn’t even know existed from my view of the images in Lightroom. None of the Lightroom adjustments were imported. That was a good thing though, as it enabled me to see something that was a total revelation for me. There’s a checkbox in the import dialog to Include Existing Adjustments, and I’m not sure if that was on or off during this first import, but my images were totally reset. In July 2016, with the latest version being 9.2, I had some time and decided to take a deeper look. I simply grabbed a handful of my favorite images from Lightroom and imported them into Capture One. As a result I still didn’t really see the benefits to switching. However, I couldn’t really invest the time necessary to fully check it out. At that time, a lot of key features were missing, although the RAW processing engine was already very impressive.Īfter the release of Capture One 7, I took another look, and found that most of the functionality I wanted was now there. Then, I’ll talk about the tests I did to see if I really could move to Capture One completely.Ĭapture One has been on my radar since 2009, when I tried the demo version of version 5 or 6. It’s pretty simple, but this is a powerful motive, so I want to take the time to relay this. Why the Change?įirstly, let me explain the reason for this sudden change in direction. I can already hear you Capture One users chuckling to yourselves, not so surprised that I’ve finally decided to make this change. So, this may come as a shock to people that know me. I started using Lightroom back in 2006, during the initial beta phase, and I’d been a loyal Lightroom user since. Although not quite as dramatic, I’m really excited to tell you that I’ve switched from Lightroom to Capture One Pro as my main image processing, asset management and workflow application. I almost started the title of this episode with Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes, like the one I released when I quit my old day job to pursue photography full-time six years ago.
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