Exploring Hook Peninsula and the Hook Lighthouse

Exploring Hook Peninsula and the Hook Lighthouse

Thomas Fitzgerald
Landscape & Nature, Travel, Ireland

Like many people, while I’ve been lucky enough to travel abroad quite a bit, I haven’t actually spent much time exploring my own country of Ireland, and I’ve actually been to surprisingly little of the island. With Covid making international travel complicated and not something I particularly want to partake in right now, we recently decided to take a few days holiday in the southeast of Ireland. One of the most interesting places we visited was to the Hook peninsula to visit the famous Hook Lighthouse

Capture One Update: Capture One 21 14.3 released with Magic Brush, New Export Interface and More

Capture One Update: Capture One 21 14.3 released with Magic Brush, New Export Interface and More

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One, Software

Capture One today announced the latest point release for Capture One 21 and it contains a couple of new features. The company has been on a roll of late, with each point release adding new functionality to the software. This release sees a new export interface added, a new “magic brush” for making quick selections, and a much requested change to the way catalogues handle sub-folders.

Save 10% on Capture One

Save 10% on Capture One

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One

As a quick follow on from my recent updated post on Capture One vs Lightroom, just a quick note to say that if you’re considering getting yourself a copy of Capture One, you can now gat a 10% discount on any version of the software by using the code in this post.

Capture One vs Lightroom from someone who uses both (Updated for 2021)

Capture One vs Lightroom from someone who uses both (Updated for 2021)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One, Lightroom

I first wrote this article last year, and since then it has become my most popular post on this blog. However, since last year, both applications have continued to develop, and both have had several new features added and both have changed the way they perform, so I felt that it was important to update this article. While the bulk of this will still be the same, there are a few things that have changed that are worth pointing out.

Thoughts on the new Nikon Zfc

Thoughts on the new Nikon Zfc

Thomas Fitzgerald
Gear, Nikon

Today, Nikon announced their new retro styled camera, the Nikon Zfc, which wasn’t much of a surprise as it had been rumoured for weeks now, and pictures of it had been leaked for the last little while. I don’t know what it is about camera companies these days, but they can’t seem to keep any product much of a secret before its launch. Even so, it’s nice to see the official details, and for the reactions from the lucky people (who are important enough) to get their hands on it. I have to say, I really like what Nikon has done here, and I would absolutely consider putting this on my shopping list.

5 Capture One Quick Tips

5 Capture One Quick Tips

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One

If you’re a Capture One user there are lots of little things that you may or may not be aware of that can actually help your workflow, but are too small to put in an article all by themselves! So, I’ve collected a few of these quick tips into a single post. Depending on your experience level, you may have come across some or all of these before, but for beginners or Lightroom switchers, I hope you find some of these useful.

A Super Nerdy Lightroom Colour Grading Tool Trick to Solve a limitation of the Curve Tool !

A Super Nerdy Lightroom Colour Grading Tool Trick to Solve a limitation of the Curve Tool !

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

This is one of those tips, that I actually exclaimed out loud when I realised it, but I’ve struggled ever since to figure out how to write about it. The reason is that it’s kind of a very specific nerdy thing, and while I was very excited when I discovered it, trying to figure out a way to explain why you should be excited too, has eluded me. The thing is, for years I’ve had a very specific problem in Lightroom, and there’s been no way around it, until recently. So what is this problem? Read on for more.

My Go-To Sharpening and Noise Reduction Starting Point Settings in Capture One for any Camera’s Raw Files

My Go-To Sharpening and Noise Reduction Starting Point Settings in Capture One for any Camera’s Raw Files

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One

One of the things some people often like about Capture One when they first try it is that they find it gives them sharper images or more detail than other software. However, I also often see complaints that details can look pixelated and over-processed. Depending on your camera and the type of images you take, you may notice this too, especially with older images. In my opinion, Capture One’s defaults are set too high. Whenever I get a new camera, it often takes me a little time to get the settings just right, but in the following post, I’ll share the parameters I often use when in a hurry, or where I start with when dealing in a new camera.

Landscape Photo Editing Tutorial - Using Lightroom and Photoshop to add drama to a dull photo

Landscape Photo Editing Tutorial - Using Lightroom and Photoshop to add drama to a dull photo

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

It’s been a while since I’ve had a photograph that I’ve been really pleased with, what with the Pandemic and lockdown limiting photo taking opportunities. I had actually created this photo and posted it to Instagram, when some people asked me if I could do a tutorial explaining how I had edited the photo. So, I went back and recreated the edit and in this video I walk you through my process from start to finish.

Capture One vs Lightroom Apple M1 - Import and Export Speed Test

Capture One vs Lightroom Apple M1 - Import and Export Speed Test

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One, Lightroom

Recently both Capture One and Lightroom have been released as Apple Silicon native versions. I have covered both of these in videos on my YouTube channel recently. For Capture One I showed you how the interface responds with the new version, and for Lightroom, I did a test comparing import and export speeds for the M1 native version compared to the older version running under rosetta. Since I had the benchmarks for this, I figured why not run the same test for Capture One.

Nik Collection 4 Released

Nik Collection 4 Released

Thomas Fitzgerald
Software

DXO labs has just released an updated of the venerable Nik Collection, which includes a number of new features. The biggest updates within the “Nik Collection 4” bundle are Silver Efex and Viveza, both of which are significant updates with new interfaces and under the hood changes, including much more control over u-points.

Capture One M1 Native Version Released - What it’s like on an M1 Mac (video)

Capture One M1 Native Version Released - What it’s like on an M1 Mac (video)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One

Capture One today released the latest version of the software, and it now runs natively on Apple Silicon. The new version has also re-written the acceleration code to use Metal instead of Open CL. The result should be greater stability and less acceleration issues on all Macs, both intel and Apple Silicon. In order to give you an idea of what the software runs like on an M1 Mac, I recorded a little video.

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