Capture One Tips for Creating a better Default Image

Capture One Tips for Creating a better Default Image

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One

If you’ve been following my blog for some time, you’ll know that I’m a regular Capture One user. I don’t generally use it as my main image processing software, but I probably use it for maybe 30- 40% of the work that I do. While I’ve talked about it a lot on this blog before, much of that has been in the context of using Capture One for Fuji X-Trans images, but I actually use it with many other cameras too. With that in mind, today I wanted to give you some tips that aren’t camera specific, and cover ways to improve the default way Capture One interprets RAW images.

Rethinking How I Shoot and Process Fuji Jpegs

Rethinking How I Shoot and Process Fuji Jpegs

Thomas Fitzgerald
Fuji X-Series

I know this might seem light a little bit of a strange thing to be covering, as it’s pretty much been something that people have been talking about since the X-Pro 1 first came out, but recently I’ve been taking another look at using Jpegs from my Fuji X-Pro2. This started as a bit of an experiment, but it’s blossomed into a full project for me. Let me explain.

Fuji X-Pro 2 + Nikon Macro Lens

Fuji X-Pro 2 + Nikon Macro Lens

Thomas Fitzgerald
X-Pro2 Diary, Fuji X-Series

I’ve recently been using some non Fuji lenses with my X-Pro 2 and the other day, I was trying out my old Nikon Macro lens with the camera. Despite being a macro, I had mostly been using it as a short telephoto, with its 105mm focal length being useful, especially as the 1.5X crop adds to the throw. However, over the weekend I got to use it as it was intended, for some macro work, and the results were pretty great.

Revisiting Aperture and using Fuji X-Pro 2 Files in Aperture via X-Transformer

Revisiting Aperture and using Fuji X-Pro 2 Files in Aperture via X-Transformer

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Software, X-Pro2 Diary, Fuji X-Series

As an experiment, and part of an ongoing project, I decided to launch Aperture the other day. It was the first time I have used the application in a long time, and It was an interesting experience. Because it has been so long, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. The reasons that I wanted to try it out, was that I wanted to see how files from X-Transformer were working in various different applications other than Lightroom. The result was both eye opening and depressing at the same time.

Presets in Action: Enhancing the mood; Creating Filmic Black & White with T-Pan for Lightroom

Presets in Action: Enhancing the mood; Creating Filmic Black & White with T-Pan for Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

A little while ago I got up early in the morning and headed to a little fishing town just north of Dublin to get some morning shots of the sleepy port coming to life. I had originally hoped that it would be a nice bright morning, and that I would capture the early rays of the sun over the sea and the harbour, but instead a thick cloud was down, and it was beginning to rain. 

Iridient X-Transformer Beta 4 Released

Iridient X-Transformer Beta 4 Released

Thomas Fitzgerald
Fuji X-Series, Software

Iridient Digital has released a new version of X-Transformer. The update, which was released last night has a number of improvements and new features, the most significant of which is a new plug-in for Lightroom which will make it easier to send files to the application. It also now has the ability to automatically embed which film simulation you used into the DNG as a corresponding colour profile.

Using the Electronic Shutter on the X-Pro 2 for Street Shooting

Using the Electronic Shutter on the X-Pro 2 for Street Shooting

Thomas Fitzgerald
X-Pro2 Diary, Fuji X-Series, Street

With all the fuss recently about the Sony A9 and its electronic shutter, I thought I would try out the one on my X-Pro 2. I had dabbled with it before, but I always thought it was a bit of an odd experience, so I didn’t really do much with it. I had also read various reports of it introducing rolling shutter effects, so I hadn’t payed it much attention. However, I was out doing some street photography the other day, and so I thought that I might as well give it a try. I was pleasantly surprised.

I’m not sure what to think of PixelPeeper.io

I’m not sure what to think of PixelPeeper.io

Thomas Fitzgerald
Editorial, Lightroom

If you follow photography news at all, you’ve probably read about this new site called pixelpeeper.io (not to be confused with Pixelpeeper.com). It’s a web application that lets you see what Lightroom edits were done to an image, just by uploading a Jpeg to it. Now, on top of that they’ve added the ability to see what Lightroom preset was used on an image (if it was something like one of the VSCO presets), again just from uploading a Jpeg. I have mixed feelings on whether or not this is a good idea, and I’ve gone back and forth in my mind as to whether I agree with what they’re doing or not

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