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\nI’ve been a user of Capture One for a number of years. \u00a0I believe I started in the Summer of 2011. \u00a0Up until a couple of weeks ago, I’ve only used Version 6. \u00a0While I found Version 6 to be phenomenal for colour photographs taken using my Leica M9, I’ve only rarely used it for my Nikon D-SLR’s. \u00a0Once Adobe moved to Adobe Camera RAW v7, the need for it, for Nikon images seemed to be greatly reduced. \u00a0Yet, even with the latest versions of ACR, it still seemed the best way to process Leica images.<\/p>\n
I never got around\u00a0to upgrading to Capture One version 7. \u00a0Early on in the release of v7, I’d thought about it, but had held off\u00a0due to all of the negative comments about major\u00a0issues with slowness. \u00a0While v8 has been out for a while, I’d finally started getting colour images out of ACR that I was happy with, so hadn’t thought about upgrading. \u00a0Recently though Phase One had a really<\/strong> good sale on the v8 upgrade, too good to pass up, and I purchased the upgrade, only to learn that until I upgraded my OS, I wouldn’t be able to run it. \u00a0As I was running too old of a version of Mac OS X to be able to run the latest version of Adobe Photoshop CC (2015), I was already planning on upgrading. \u00a0Finally at the beginning of November, I upgraded my system to Mac OS X 10.11.<\/p>\n I started around playing with a few images, and was quite pleased with what I saw with its handling of Chromatic Aberrations. \u00a0While it still can’t totally help with the issues I’ve seen when shooting with a Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4G wide open, it definitely helps a little.<\/p>\n To highlight the issue I have with the Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4G lens, and\u00a0its\u00a0Chromatic Aberration problems, I’ve tightly cropped a photograph of a little boy holding his Grandfather’s saber. \u00a0For the three example photographs, pay close attention to the pommel. \u00a0This first photograph is straight from the camera, unedited.<\/p>\n Unedited image taken with Nikon D800 and Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4G lens @ f\/1.4<\/p><\/div>\n In this next photography I used Adobe LIghtroom 5 to attempt to remove the CA fringing. \u00a0As you can see, Lightroom is able to do a fairly decent job, but there is still the slightest hint of fringing going on around the hand guard, and the pommel\u00a0has some weird bits of CA.<\/p>\n Lightroom CC’s handling of Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4G CA<\/p><\/div>\n In the final of the three examples, I used Capture One, and was able to completely remove the fringing from the Chromatic Aberrations, but then I corrected the white balance, at which point some of the problems with CA returned slightly. \u00a0While overall the issues have been corrected, there is just a slight hint of discolouration around the edges of the hand guard. \u00a0In this case both the handle and the pommel look pretty good.<\/p>\n How Capture One 8.3.3 is able to to handle the Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4G CA<\/p><\/div>\n While I was pleased with the results from the CA testing, they weren’t earth shattering. \u00a0Then I started working on some “Coastal Defense Fort” photographs I’d taken in 2013. That is when things started to get interesting. \u00a0Initially I was working on most of them in Adobe Lightroom, though I did one or two\u00a0in Adobe Bridge\/ACR\/Photoshop, as I find I’m able to do slightly finer adjustments on the RAW images using ACR, rather than Lightroom (yes, I realize at the heart, they’re the same).<\/p>\n When I was working on “Watch Your Step!”, I simply wasn’t happy with how the lower part of the stairs were turning out. \u00a0It was a very tricky shot, the exposure was for a 110 seconds. \u00a0The light at the bottom of the stairs, was coming from a doorway in the middle of a decent sized tunnel, and the light at the top coming from the window slits in the observation booth, that was up some other stairs about 20-30 feet away. \u00a0So I decided to give Capture One a try, and immediately got the results I was after. \u00a0I then tried several other photographs, with difficult lighting situations, taken in the bowels of some of the Mortar Batteries. \u00a0That’s when I started noticing just how clean the images were, compared to B&W photo’s done in this fashion that used\u00a0either Adobe Lightroom, or Adobe Photoshop for the RAW processing. \u00a0In all cases, the B&W conversions were\u00a0done using the same custom Silver Efex Pro 2 preset.<\/p>\n Watch Your Step!<\/p><\/div>\n The following photographs provide an example of the noise levels between Adobe and Capture One. \u00a0The example for Capture One, is about the worst I’ve seen it do thus far, yet the Adobe Lightroom example is noticeably worse.<\/p>\n Capture One 8.3.3 preparing “Tunnel’s End”.<\/p><\/div>\n The two digital noise examples are taken from the upper left-hand corner of the following image. \u00a0The complete image shown here was processed using Capture One and Silver Efex Pro 2.<\/p>\n Tunnel’s End, Fort Worden, Washington<\/p><\/div>\n Noise Level with Adobe Lightroom CC (2015) – Click on photo to view at 100%<\/p><\/div>\n Noise Level with Capture One 8.3.3 – Click on photo to view at 100%<\/p><\/div>\n One of the cool features that was added recently to Capture One Pro 8.1, is the “Round-Trip” feature<\/a>. \u00a0This\u00a0allows you to send the photo to an external editor, in this case, Silver Efex Pro 2, and then return to Capture One when you’re done to continue your editing session. \u00a0This works especially well with my rather odd workflow, and is a distinct improvement over Capture One v6, where I had to export the image from Capture One, and then reimport it into Adobe Lightroom for further editing.<\/p>\n My typical workflow is as follows. \u00a0I import the images into Adobe Lightroom. \u00a0From there I can either edit\u00a0them in Adobe Lightroom, use Adobe Bridge to open them in ACR (and then Photoshop), or I can access them from the Session I have open in Capture One. \u00a0This is where the new “Round-Trip” feature really comes into play. \u00a0When I use this option, the resulting TIFF is placed in the same directory, and I simply have to use the “Synchronize Folder” option in Adobe Lightroom for the images to be available in Lightroom. \u00a0Then I can use Lightroom to export it to Flickr<\/a>, or my Photography website<\/a>, or I can print it.<\/p>\n Capture One includes what is supposed to be a very good alternative to Adobe Lightroom, and it supports importing Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom libraries, but I’ve not tried it, as I’m happy with my current solution. \u00a0In my mind at least, the way I’m doing things allows for far greater flexibility than using Capture One to maintain my catalog.<\/p>\n Capture One includes the ability to print photos, and when I first purchased my Epson R3000 printer, I found that Capture One v6 gave accurate results, while I couldn’t get good results from the versions of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop that I was using at the time. \u00a0So far I’ve only tried to print “Tunnel’s End” with\u00a0Capture One v8, and it’s obvious that I’m going to have to do some studying up on what formats it’s able to print. \u00a0In order to get the print I was after, I ended up needing to use Lightroom CC for printing. \u00a0I’m pretty sure Capture One doesn’t like the format that Silver Efex Pro 2 saved the finished image in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction The time has finally come for another blog post. \u00a0Life has gotten in the way, and as a result, this blog hasn’t been anywhere near as active as I’d planned. \u00a0In fact,\u00a0I have several partially done articles that have … Continue reading Capture One and Chromatic Aberrations<\/h1>\n
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<\/a>Capture One and Digital Noise<\/h1>\n
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<\/a>Thoughts on Capture One, and Digital Workflows<\/h1>\n
Printing with Capture One<\/h1>\n