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One area where I've had a problems is with stacking 20+ stacked images. The lens correction can create artifact/halos when images stacked. As for the subscription issue, one needs to purchase each upgrade so it's not really a buy once thing.

Beautiful photo and edit! I don't think there is anything unethical about this at all. My ethics align with making sure the animal is being respected when the photo was taken, not our artistic choices in the editing process 😊 Of course, I'll follow guidelines of contests I'll submit to, but if the contest or purpose of the photo doesn't have strict guidelines, then go for it!

Nice but you speak too fast. Imagine us as a newbie

Hi Mark, found your videos on UA-cam lately and I really love them !!! Learned a lot about Lightroom editing and techniques, so practical. By the way, which lens plate do you use on your Nikon Z180-600 ?

I really like the edit and the only time it would be a problem is for a competition which might have strict rules in relation to processing.

The pre-capture feature on the Canon R5II makes it so much easier.

Not that I am great at editing, I always find myself leaning towards dark edits

Interesting but at times I felt like one step would wind up negating an earlier step resulting in an almost dizzying number of steps when possibly all that was needed was to modify an earlier step?

Great workflow, bro! More of these!

Thanks

Hey Mark, I have no issues with editing of any nature. It all depends on the purpose. If the image is for a contest or for a publication, then I guess there'll be standards for journalistic integrity. But if the image is for printing on a wall, or our personal portfolios, "ethics" should only refer to personal lines we don't want to cross. I for one, have no issues removing twigs and blades of grass. On the editing style, I like it. I often oscillate between dark and moody and bright and airy. I don't like tweaking colour too much though, but again that's a personal preference. The only nitpick/ suggestion I have, is to attempt tones first and colour next. I notice you go back and forth between your colour grades and tone corrections. While some of this is unavoidable, I find it more structured to go in the following order. 0) Remove distractions on edges and crop. 1) Correct white balance and lens issues and select the right profile. 2) Adjust exposure and blacks to taste. 3) Define subject, foreground and background masks. I reuse these for lots of local adjustments with inversions and intersections. 4) Get the tones right with a combination of masks and global curves. When using curves I apply them in a pure luminosity mode. 5) Finally use a combination of HSL, colour grading, callibration and vibrance to get the colours to taste. 6) Optionally I use extra masks with point colour, temp, tint, etc to fix very local issues. Great vid though. You're an inspiration. Keep creating!

I love this darker look. Thanks for the tips.

You certainly got to dark and Moody; a very nice editing demonstration. However, I feel it was way too Repetitive; seemed like you were always adjusting, contrast, adding a filter, changing colors, etc. I would much rather hear fewer iterations and more thorough explanations of what was going on. For example, when you go to tone curves, which kind of curve, and why these instead of sliders. There was a lot of good stuff but a little too much to follow and digest. Perhaps it was above my level of Lightroom mastery

Do snsor cleaning in a “dust free environment?” Having worked in semiconductor fab clean rooms, EVERY PLACE ELSE has floating dust. So, do it in less dusty places, not outside in Death Valley on a windy day, for example. And, avoid pollen season.

Hi Mark. Another great video demonstrating your editing abilities to tease out exactly what you want from the image. While removing the bright bit of grass would make the image ineligible for most competitions, it would improve the final image. For competitions, instead of removing the bright the bright blade of grass could you use an object mask with a small brush and de-saturate and slightly darken the bit of grass to make it less visible? Or would this mess up your background? This may be a way around the 'no removal or additions' to the image, demanded by most competitions, as it would fall under editing.

Hey Mark. Great editing and I love this. Personally I don't have a problem with it. I feel that the Tech is available and it's each artists right to do what they like when creating something. That said if you enter a competition and the rules state that you can't do it, different story. In the film days a lot of manipulation was done on photos in the dark rooms and no once cared. Honesty is the thing at the end of the day if someone asks what was done to the photo. Thank you for sharing.

Amazing editing!!!

I use Camera matching Flat Profile instead of Adobe Profiles

Welcome to the dark side !….you can do no wrong Mark. Final image is striking. As always, another excellent tutorial.

Trying to buy the full collection, but it won't let me apply the code. It says: the discount does not apply to any products in your cart.

I have used this kit, the fiber cloth is smooth but in the edges it is very sharp and Ive heard some scratches but I don't want to face the reality, please take care

Thanks for the video. I love DxO PureRAW 4. The big advantage is the GPU code in DeepPRIME XD2 and the perfect batch capability. For nighttime time-lapse shots with around 3600 RAW photos (Sony a6700, 26 MP), it took around 3 hours on an Intel 13900K + 3080TI. When loading 3600 files into PureRAW 4, the performance of a single core on the CPU is critical, while performing the batch operation requires maximum GPU performance.

Thank you for the video. I have dxo pureraw 3 and pureraw 4. A couple things I am very disappointed in pure raw 4. It doesn't work with Fuji raw. Extremely slow to process with my Sony files and other files, it brings me into the cloud in Lightroom after processing which I cannot stand. I thing the experience in dxo pure raw 3 is superior imho

Good review, thanks Mark. Overall it's great software, and I use it even for low ISO images because I think the DNG files are a slightly better starting point for processing than the original Canon 6D Mk1 Raw files. I agree about the sharpening setting mostly to "soft" if you have a modern lens - even "standard" can sometimes look a little "crunchy". The DNG files are very high quality. Some reviewers say they have noticed a slight colour shift in the DNG as compared to the original Raw file, but I think it's not so much a colour shift as some subtle processing that "lifts" the file a little from the flat original Raw file. I'd be interested in any views you may have on this point. It's worth noting that DXO Photolab 7 Essential editing software is not much more expensive than PureRaw 4, although it does not have the XD2 algorithm. For photographers looking to switch away from Adobe for whatever reason, Essential represents great value for money. The DXO site has a comparison between Photolab Essential and Elite if people want to look at this option. Personally, I wish I had purchased Photolab Elite instead because I do not really need the XD2 algorithm, and I'll probably buy the Elite version of Photolab 8 which will (probably) be released around this October...

You should also mention that DeepPRIME XD2/XD is still not available for use with Fujifilm .RAF files.

As you know us Saffers pay dear for software, but this one was worth it, luckily I got the 20% discount on offer last month, your video is a good workflow, I don’t open from an editor, but drag files from Adobe Bridge directly, for quicker processing, I shut down every other Application, especially the memory hogs like Adobe, further adjustments are done in my editor depending on the photograph. It’s a definite tool to have in modern Auto iso cameras.

You mentioned about LR Denoise taking forever - I had this problem (up to 18 minutes for some images!) and it is a hardware issue. Adobe is moving more and more to using the memory on the graphics card for doing the AI/Denoise processing. So if you have an integrated graphics card the LR is competing with all the other functions to run the program. Similarly, older graphics cards (before 2013) work as memory in isolation, whereas newer graphics cards swap their memory with the main RAM on the computer. The answer is to upgrade your graphics card (preferably 8GB) AND make sure you have at least 8GB RAN on your computer. Buying DxO will be much cheaper!

I don’t have Lightroom so I purchased DXO PR 3.0 in their BlackFriday sale. I just use the DeepPrime as it’s quicker and the XD doesn’t offer much extra considering the extra processing time. All in all it’s given extra value to my Canon 6D and 77D as I can use them at higher iso. The batch process is brilliant. I put the files in and leave it to chug along for an hour.😅

Excellent software. Been using the noise reduction and optical corrections since early versions of DxO's PhotoLab suite. PureRAW puts those components into a stand-alone, easy to use app.

Thank you! Good info

Thanks Mark, glad to hear that you're still happy with DXO Pure Raw Nice shot, looks like it could be Thamba. He's the only male I know that has a chunk like that of his ear bitten off

You are not sponsored by DxO but you're a DxO affiliate who earns money on the software? Hmmm...

Don't buy from DXO. Their support is WORSE than terrible.

Hello Mark, I've been watching your UA-cam videos lately and I am enjoying it! My response to your question is as follows. We shoot in RAW and at least some work is required to make the image look appealing. What I see you do to enhance or finish your images seam totally fine in my opinion. I belong to a local camera club and these techniques with wildlife/nature photos are accepted in post process editing.

Disappointed that you did not mention something I contacted you about recently, when using DXO Pure Raw from Lightroom at the moment there is an ongoing problem, when re-imported into Lightroom the image is being changed to a version 1 from the current version 6 in Lightroom this prevents any use of some Lightroom tools until you manually change the image back to version 6. If you go to the DXO forum site you will see that this problem is now 2 plus months old and nothing thus far has been done by DXO to fix it, so before you buy just now download the trial and test with Lightroom if you use it. Sorry if I am treading on your toes with this Mark but it is a problem.

Thanks very much Mark!!