Love watching Nick Carver's vids, even though I have no intention of getting into the film world. He's somehow always entertaining and relaxing to listen to while being informative. :)
I couldn’t believe when everyone started coming out with presets. It takes away so much of the creativity you get with photography and that’s all the fun!
Thomas, Many thanks for this. One of the great hallmarks of your work is that it never looks anything but natural. It never looks over processed. The software we have to work with is so powerful that it’s easy to get drawn in by it. I admire you for staying true to what you intended when you shot the image. And well done for giving credit to Nick Carver.
Thank you for your recognition of Nick Carver’s process in your presentation. It’s an indication of your integrity. I have enjoyed the presentations you have made most recently.
Man Thomas, I love how you are able to empower everyone with your photography, I feel bad sometimes using my X-T2 when I see someone shooting the same scene next to me on a GFX100 but the fact you swap between APSC,FF, Medium format and film just shows how you can get it done with anything with the right attitude!
Never feel bad using an X-T2! It's an awesome camera! For landscape photography it's equal to the X-T3 or X-T4 and you really don't need "full frame". However, the GFX100 is on a different level to virtually all other cameras.
To be honest, I didn't see much difference between APSC and FF. And it was 26 megapixels vs 42. Except the ability to crop. The glass makes all the difference for me.
It all depends on what the intended output is; if you intend showing your image on-line only even a 12 mp sensor is enough (if you don’t crop much). But if your intention is to print large high quality prints beyond 50 x 70 cm an image from a 24 mp sensor (no crop) will in many cases not have enough density for sufficient sharpness. Of course, interpolation is always a possibility but with sacrifices. The reason photographers like high density sensors is because scaling down an image comes with very little damage whilst scaling up depends on a method of adding in detailed information that wasn’t there in the first place! Depending on the type of image that can sometimes be an acceptable compromise, but the result is very often disappointing and very obvious. So, the choice of sensor-size and density comes down to what the intended outcome is. Since most photographers don’t really know in what ways the photo will be published or shown in the future the options will be less limited with an image from a larger and more dense sensor. I guess that’s the main reason most photographers like to bring home images from a shoot with a pixel density as high as possible.
Simple and straightforward. Learned a thing or two. Couldn't agree more with how some youtubers appear to just "copy/paste" info from others on their channels.
The radial filter vignette is one of my favorite tools. The best thing is, if done right, the viewer can't tell it's there unless they can see the "before" version.
Thomas, one of your best videos. 1) you handled digital and film, 2) good info on luminesce. Great watching your logic on what to do with the photo. You have spurred me to return to on some 4X5 film I shot in the spring. New ideas. Thank you so much.
Thanks for sharing and being honest and humble. I think that one of the most important things is what you said at the beginning, the "intent". It's good to use "what if" sometimes but at the end of the day, most great photographers all had/have specificity and intent in their process.... that's just my opinion.
I’m not really into landscape Tom as I’m a wildlife photographer but I love watching your videos I really do, plus I do intend to have a play at landscape as and when the opportunity arises and that my friend is down to you !!! All the best and stay safe Paul.
Brilliant video Thomas. In a future video, could you discuss the settings you use for Iridient X-Transformer? I've been using it for a while on my Fuji files but would be interested to know what you use or other photographers you know to get the best results. Thanks Robert
Thomas Thank you for these tutorial. Now I know how to make a nice vignettierung. I love your channel. Through the video with Andy Gray, I started to try out intentional camera movement.👍👍👌👌
Nice to see an editing video again. Love the second photo. Great leading line with a grand vista. Agree with the lighting and mood. Very nice. Good video thanks!
If you do another one of these could you toggle back and forth from before and after each adjustment? Helps see the changes you're making on smaller screens
My first thoughts, when you mentioned scanning, went to Nick Carver and his work. That’s a proper acknowledgment and a practice you have, Tom. You’re gentleman and a scholar. 🙂
I use Affinity Photo, it's similar in it's execution to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, but whatever software you choose to edit your images, the emphasis I get from this video is to make small changes. The lighthouse you sharpened shows the awful mess that can easily be made by throwing too much at it and the improvements that small subtle changes can make to an already great image. I always feel a bit of a fraud when I edit my film shots, but I am slowly getting past that and I'm making progress. Thanks Thomas. :)
Editing film has always been a thing. I used to sent up to 6 hours on a single image in the darkroom making masks, dodging and burning etc. And if you made a mistake you had to start all over again! Digital editing is sooooo much easier!
I still do not have any electronic photo editing software yet. I think the main goal is to make a good photo in the first place so that there is little else that needs to be changed. You can use various filters in the field to create the best image.
Although I've watched loads of videos like this, including all of Nick Carvers, I never fail to learn something. In this case the use of the gradient tool in PS allied to a mask on a curves layer. I might go back and re-scan some of my old 6x6 images now.
I tried that plug-in you mentioned, but I did not like it. The reason is that files from Fujifilm cameras have lower “micro color definition” (for lack or a better phrase). Small details often look desaturated. And that plug-in did not fix that issue for me. Maybe I used it wrong. I used the default settings. But when I used the “Enhance Detail” feature in Lr, it brought back the color in those small details. Edit: I hope I’m not coming across as saying “you’re wrong and I’m upset that you’re wrong” or something. I genuinely love these videos. My comment about the enhance detail feature was only meant to highlight how it brings back color to small details. I think enhance detail works very well honestly.
Thomas, although I liked this video episode, I think it would have been so much better if you had the same image processed by different camera's. We all tend to think our own camera is the best choice, excluding price of course (we all have different budgets). Discussing why an image is better using "A camera" as opposed to "B camera", helps us all to understand your thought process, and help us to see the limitations of a brand, type, etc.
Very useful and helpful. I struggle to get my head around post processing, beyond standard changes. The use of a wide radial was really useful, but still got lost on luminance highlighting and the link with photoshop. As a rookie photographer (very amateur) post processing is quite overwhelming. Anyway, thanks as ever for a top vlog.
Thanks Thomas, Love your work. Would it be possible for you to share a screen shot of the raw options panel in the x-transformer app?I never know what may be the optimal settings XT4 files. Thanks
Thanks as always for the video. I hadn’t fully realised till I watched you process your first image how much I’ve learned from you. My workflow has become is very similar. Just wished the finished product was s successful. 😂
I use both Fuji and Nikon and Lightroom Classic CC. I find LR does a fine job with my Fuji files. Maybe it’s just me but they are fine and easy to work with.
Love the editing tutorial Thomas! One tip for filming though is to only use one camera angle. It is weird seeing you face right when editing and then left when it is just your face.
Great stuff Thomas. I use Photoshop and it is always a great buzz when I get home and start the post production, and this video will add more to what I already use. What great times we are in with the tools available. Got your signed book arrived in perfect condition and in January your calendar will be on display. Cheers. Colin
Thomas: It would be interesting to know more details about the scanner you use for film. I have loads of slides and need to scan the best of them. So far I have not found the right scanner. Thanks very much.
For every photosuite today viable options for converting (color) negatives exist. CaptureOne has, Ps has, Lr has and even free options exist. Luxury times these days for film shooters.
Great video Thomas. Thanks for sharing your workflows. I really liked your film one. As I have to go through a lot of negatives/positives for a client this was very helpful. I will check out also Nick's Channel. Cheers from LA.
Thanks for a bit more insight on how you edit your images Thomas, always nice to see a bit of post. I'm a newbie to luminosity masking using the same plug-in as Adam Gibbs but not with the same results. 🤣🤣 Great video and looking forward to your next.
Why you didn't use the tone curve on the first two images and only on the film one? Thank you for giving a shout out to Nick Carver, one of my favorite photographers and vloggers. I also appreciated you comments about presets. Finally, what a great mini-workshop in editing! Thank you.
I'd love to see more photographers giving open-source software like RawTherapee, Darktable, or Krita a try. Some of the techniques you showed in this video would be difficult to replicate with the tools I know, but it'd be interesting to see how close you can get. I'm somewhat passionate about this because Adobe still doesn't support Linux
I am using darktable for years now and I do even have a patch in there (very trivial though). It would indeed be very interesting to see a truly skilled photographes (which I don't consider myself to be) edit an image in it. It is a bit overengineered UX-wise, it would say. Lots of options, lots of modules doing basically the same thing, but hey, when you create your own workflow and get used to it, it's easyyy. Krita seems to me quite similar in capabilities to PS (I did replicate some basic PS workflows in it) but mind you, it is primarily a painting software. I am to unable to use PS as I don't use any OS supported by it. RawTherapee I don't use. Nothing technical, just a matter of preference.
I've been using Linux since the mid 90s and its my main OS for everything except image and video editing. I tried all the raw processors and even bought Corel Aftershot Pro, which is still the first step in my workflow(getting files off the card and onto a disk). But sadly none of the open source tools really come close to the proprietary ones for ease of use and image quality. I don't use Adobe, but I do use DxO Photolab, followed by Nik collection followed by Affinity Photo. On Linux I occasionally jump into GIMP for some tweaks and I use Darktable to edit the raws from one of my Lumix compacts because DxO don't support it! Darktable is awesome but ease of use is horrific, minute adjustments make huge changes etc. Video editing software on Linux is even worse (although I'm assured DaVinci Resolve can be made to work and Lightworks is now almost usable if your PC is powerful enough)
But the UI/UX is so awful. It’s the big weak point of open source desktop apps. Instead, for $10 a month, I get a really good UX that doesn’t waste my time and both LR and PS. Free software is great if you don’t value your time.
One important thing to mention is that you chose the camera standard profile before you started editing. The choice of profile has a huge impact on your starting image.
One other option for the X-T4: use Capture One to batch convert your RAW files into 16-bit TIFF and then edit in Lightroom; you lose some RAW funcionality in Lr, like white balance or profile selection, but the detail is way better than with the Iridient transformation. Is it also a more expensive option, but at least you get the most detail and still can use your usual Lr environment (for me I really don't wat to lose it, because for the same price I also get Photoshop and keep my Lr plugins, like Negative Lab Pro, for scanned film processing).
"I don't want to use another piece of software to work with the X-Trans images, so I'll use another piece of software to convert them." Never change, Thomas, never change!
Always look forward to, & enjoy, your videos Thomas but found the background music a tad distracting on this one, other than that, another great video thanks!
I also use Iridient for my Fuji files and am wondering which settings you use with X-Transformer. I am still struggling a bit with the correct settings for the sharpest outcome of my X-T3 images. Can you share yours with me and other Iridient users?
Thomas, watching this I was wondering if it wouldn't be easier for you editing with camera raw instead of jumping between Lightroom and Photoshop. Lightroom, like capture one it's better when processing in batches. For you, processing "oners", camera raw would allowed you to do basically everything you mentioned here in a non destructive way.
@@JohnDrummondPhoto not in the way that he is using it, creating dng files. But as I said, Lightroom shows its strenght when processing in batches or creating catalogues. Here he is jumping between photoshop and lightroom when probably he could have a more straight forward workflow with camera raw.
@@juanQuedo ACR and LR have the same problem interpreting Fuji X-Trans files, which are actually 3 files embedded together. Both apps will show and edit one visible sub-file but not the other two, so much detail is lost. That is why Tom converted the X-Trans file to a DNG, to retain and use all the raw data. He'd need to do that for best results in ACR, too. And, the DNG file is distinct from the raw file, which remains intact and visible in the thumbnail row. As for why LR instead of ACR? If Tom is like me, it's just familiarity. He didn't even use Photoshop at all until the last year or so, other than focus stacking and image cleanup. Before that he was all Lightroom. I'm also using LR and PS similarly to Tom, because I know LR.
Love watching Nick Carver's vids, even though I have no intention of getting into the film world. He's somehow always entertaining and relaxing to listen to while being informative. :)
I couldn’t believe when everyone started coming out with presets. It takes away so much of the creativity you get with photography and that’s all the fun!
Thomas, Many thanks for this. One of the great hallmarks of your work is that it never looks anything but natural. It never looks over processed. The software we have to work with is so powerful that it’s easy to get drawn in by it. I admire you for staying true to what you intended when you shot the image. And well done for giving credit to Nick Carver.
Thank you for your recognition of Nick Carver’s process in your presentation. It’s an indication of your integrity. I have enjoyed the presentations you have made most recently.
Kudos for being honest and recognising another photographer, decent of you and a good example!
Yes! Nick Carver is an amazing educator. Your style and technique is very informative, too. This is helpful.
Thomas Heaton. The intellectual photographer. Your Great Tom!
Man Thomas, I love how you are able to empower everyone with your photography, I feel bad sometimes using my X-T2 when I see someone shooting the same scene next to me on a GFX100 but the fact you swap between APSC,FF, Medium format and film just shows how you can get it done with anything with the right attitude!
Never feel bad using an X-T2! It's an awesome camera! For landscape photography it's equal to the X-T3 or X-T4 and you really don't need "full frame". However, the GFX100 is on a different level to virtually all other cameras.
To be honest, I didn't see much difference between APSC and FF. And it was 26 megapixels vs 42. Except the ability to crop. The glass makes all the difference for me.
@@chromaticvisuelle It has never and will never be about the camera. Cameras don't take pictures you do
It all depends on what the intended output is; if you intend showing your image on-line only even a 12 mp sensor is enough (if you don’t crop much). But if your intention is to print large high quality prints beyond 50 x 70 cm an image from a 24 mp sensor (no crop) will in many cases not have enough density for sufficient sharpness. Of course, interpolation is always a possibility but with sacrifices. The reason photographers like high density sensors is because scaling down an image comes with very little damage whilst scaling up depends on a method of adding in detailed information that wasn’t there in the first place! Depending on the type of image that can sometimes be an acceptable compromise, but the result is very often disappointing and very obvious. So, the choice of sensor-size and density comes down to what the intended outcome is. Since most photographers don’t really know in what ways the photo will be published or shown in the future the options will be less limited with an image from a larger and more dense sensor. I guess that’s the main reason most photographers like to bring home images from a shoot with a pixel density as high as possible.
I’ve never used a preset, and don’t plan to. Start. I’m with you on that.
I subscribed to Nick Carver 6 or 8 months ago when you mentioned him, really enjoy his videos. Thanks for the tip.
Simple and straightforward. Learned a thing or two. Couldn't agree more with how some youtubers appear to just "copy/paste" info from others on their channels.
The radial filter vignette is one of my favorite tools. The best thing is, if done right, the viewer can't tell it's there unless they can see the "before" version.
Thomas, one of your best videos. 1) you handled digital and film, 2) good info on luminesce. Great watching your logic on what to do with the photo. You have spurred me to return to on some 4X5 film I shot in the spring. New ideas. Thank you so much.
Big props to Nick Carver. He's a great inspiration.
Flicked over to Nick’s channel at 19:10. Watched his most recent video. Subscribed. Returned to this video. Thanks for recommendation 😁
Thanks for sharing and being honest and humble. I think that one of the most important things is what you said at the beginning, the "intent". It's good to use "what if" sometimes but at the end of the day, most great photographers all had/have specificity and intent in their process.... that's just my opinion.
Be sure and explore the Dust tool in Lumenzia. It really helps you find all of the dust spots and fix them quickly on a new layer.
Thomas, I think you also have a slight magenta cast on the right image at 11:56. I see it in the sky and the distant mountains.
I’m not really into landscape Tom as I’m a wildlife photographer but I love watching your videos I really do, plus I do intend to have a play at landscape as and when the opportunity arises and that my friend is down to you !!! All the best and stay safe Paul.
I’m new to Lightroom and never thought of using a radial filter to create a vignette. I’m looking forward to trying it out. Cheers!
Thanks again for this vid.
Yes, the calendar is a great one - as is the book!
Brilliant video Thomas. In a future video, could you discuss the settings you use for Iridient X-Transformer? I've been using it for a while on my Fuji files but would be interested to know what you use or other photographers you know to get the best results. Thanks Robert
I find Photo Ninja does a great job processing Fuji files. It retains noticeably more highlight detail and overall detail as well.
Excellent video Tom - enjoyed it and big-up for Nick Carver. I value your honesty and integrity.
Great video, Thomas!
You're an inspiration. Thank you.
I always find these videos so useful to watch. Thanks for sharing Tom 👍
I completely agree with your opinion about presets. I've never really understood why one would not want to treat each image individually.
Thomas Thank you for these tutorial.
Now I know how to make a nice vignettierung.
I love your channel. Through the video with Andy Gray, I started to try out intentional camera movement.👍👍👌👌
Nice to see an editing video again. Love the second photo. Great leading line with a grand vista. Agree with the lighting and mood. Very nice. Good video thanks!
Nick is the best!
Thanks Thomas for your information.
Nicks scanning process video helped me out so much. love to see the shoutouts.
If you do another one of these could you toggle back and forth from before and after each adjustment? Helps see the changes you're making on smaller screens
I've just thought about this, but Thomas Heaton reminds me of Bob Ross! I always learn something from him! He is my favorite photography UA-camr.
Very helpful, I much like the way your editing is driven by the feel and aim of the image rather than technique for its own sake
My first thoughts, when you mentioned scanning, went to Nick Carver and his work.
That’s a proper acknowledgment and a practice you have, Tom.
You’re gentleman and a scholar. 🙂
I use Affinity Photo, it's similar in it's execution to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, but whatever software you choose to edit your images, the emphasis I get from this video is to make small changes. The lighthouse you sharpened shows the awful mess that can easily be made by throwing too much at it and the improvements that small subtle changes can make to an already great image. I always feel a bit of a fraud when I edit my film shots, but I am slowly getting past that and I'm making progress. Thanks Thomas. :)
Editing film has always been a thing. I used to sent up to 6 hours on a single image in the darkroom making masks, dodging and burning etc. And if you made a mistake you had to start all over again! Digital editing is sooooo much easier!
I still do not have any electronic photo editing software yet. I think the main goal is to make a good photo in the first place so that there is little else that needs to be changed. You can use various filters in the field to create the best image.
Although I've watched loads of videos like this, including all of Nick Carvers, I never fail to learn something. In this case the use of the gradient tool in PS allied to a mask on a curves layer. I might go back and re-scan some of my old 6x6 images now.
I often edit in lightroom and just do corrections in photoshop, well done!
What sort of corrections? I’m new to this all
@@Soarific corrections such as skin smoothening, object removing etc
I tried that plug-in you mentioned, but I did not like it. The reason is that files from Fujifilm cameras have lower “micro color definition” (for lack or a better phrase). Small details often look desaturated. And that plug-in did not fix that issue for me. Maybe I used it wrong. I used the default settings. But when I used the “Enhance Detail” feature in Lr, it brought back the color in those small details.
Edit: I hope I’m not coming across as saying “you’re wrong and I’m upset that you’re wrong” or something. I genuinely love these videos. My comment about the enhance detail feature was only meant to highlight how it brings back color to small details. I think enhance detail works very well honestly.
Thanks for the video, insightful as always. Couldn't bring myself to brushing out natural features though.
Great video! Thanks Tom
Thomas, although I liked this video episode, I think it would have been so much better if you had the same image processed by different camera's. We all tend to think our own camera is the best choice, excluding price of course (we all have different budgets). Discussing why an image is better using "A camera" as opposed to "B camera", helps us all to understand your thought process, and help us to see the limitations of a brand, type, etc.
Very useful and helpful. I struggle to get my head around post processing, beyond standard changes. The use of a wide radial was really useful, but still got lost on luminance highlighting and the link with photoshop. As a rookie photographer (very amateur) post processing is quite overwhelming. Anyway, thanks as ever for a top vlog.
@Tom Geldon thanks Tom.
Awesome as always Thomas, very simple but effective edits, and techniques I will use for sure, thanks for sharing.
Good job Thomas
Nice to see the process for different types. I want to upload my process for others also! Love watching these types of videos
I love to use Adobe Camera Raw opened through Bridge) to process my scanned film files. It is non destructive and works wonder.
Thanks Thomas,
Love your work. Would it be possible for you to share a screen shot of the raw options panel in the x-transformer app?I never know what may be the optimal settings XT4 files.
Thanks
This was great!
To me, the first image was screaming for more contrast. It looked so drab on my screen. That vignette tip was great though! I’ll be using that.
Great video Tom. Love the simplicity of your editing. 👍🏻 beautiful images ❤️
Just ordered my calendar Thomas. Looking forward to it. Keep up the great work mate. Cheers
Great tutorial. I am a huge fan of keeping it simple.
When doing gentle retouching you really sound like Bob Ross. 😂 All the best and stay healthy. Greetings from Germany.
Thanks as always for the video. I hadn’t fully realised till I watched you process your first image how much I’ve learned from you. My workflow has become is very similar. Just wished the finished product was s successful. 😂
I use both Fuji and Nikon and Lightroom Classic CC. I find LR does a fine job with my Fuji files. Maybe it’s just me but they are fine and easy to work with.
Always brilliant video and something new to learn every time.
Love the editing tutorial Thomas! One tip for filming though is to only use one camera angle. It is weird seeing you face right when editing and then left when it is just your face.
Great stuff Thomas.
I use Photoshop and it is always a great buzz when I get home and start the post production, and this video will add more to what I already use.
What great times we are in with the tools available.
Got your signed book arrived in perfect condition and in January your calendar will be on display.
Cheers.
Colin
Loved this video! Always wondered how/if you edited you photos, very insightful.
Great tips. Really helped. Simple, quick and easy.
Especially like the use of vignette.
I use Capture One but translates no problem.
I like to do as much in lightroom as possible and leave photoshop for the real heavy work, but regardless, this was a very helpful video! Thanks!
Thanks Thomas, really, really interesting way of editing. Starting from scratch is always a good idea !
Thomas: It would be interesting to know more details about the scanner you use for film. I have loads of slides and need to scan the best of them. So far I have not found the right scanner. Thanks very much.
For every photosuite today viable options for converting (color) negatives exist. CaptureOne has, Ps has, Lr has and even free options exist. Luxury times these days for film shooters.
Thanks for showing us your process. Video saved to my “UA-cam University”. 🙏🖖
Thank you for that Thomas. It's always interesting to see how it's done.
I like your videos and photography style👍, as for film photography nick carver is a fantastic film photographer, i've learned much from his channel.
Great Vlog, Very impressive process and result. Thanks Thomas
Awesome!
Great video Thomas. Thanks for sharing your workflows. I really liked your film one. As I have to go through a lot of negatives/positives for a client this was very helpful. I will check out also Nick's Channel.
Cheers from LA.
Great job as always. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks for a bit more insight on how you edit your images Thomas, always nice to see a bit of post. I'm a newbie to luminosity masking using the same plug-in as Adam Gibbs but not with the same results. 🤣🤣 Great video and looking forward to your next.
Nice Thomas love watching ur photography and vlog
Nice and simple process TH. Being locked down for a month will give you plenty of time to do more editing (LOL!)
Great stuff Tom, any chance for a little community service by sharing your actual tried-and-true Iridient X settings?
Why you didn't use the tone curve on the first two images and only on the film one? Thank you for giving a shout out to Nick Carver, one of my favorite photographers and vloggers. I also appreciated you comments about presets. Finally, what a great mini-workshop in editing! Thank you.
I really admire your photographic eye, and your attention to detail when editing your photographs. Another job well done! 👏🏾
Really like the lighthouse photos. Would love to be on that beach.
I'd love to see more photographers giving open-source software like RawTherapee, Darktable, or Krita a try. Some of the techniques you showed in this video would be difficult to replicate with the tools I know, but it'd be interesting to see how close you can get. I'm somewhat passionate about this because Adobe still doesn't support Linux
I am using darktable for years now and I do even have a patch in there (very trivial though). It would indeed be very interesting to see a truly skilled photographes (which I don't consider myself to be) edit an image in it. It is a bit overengineered UX-wise, it would say. Lots of options, lots of modules doing basically the same thing, but hey, when you create your own workflow and get used to it, it's easyyy. Krita seems to me quite similar in capabilities to PS (I did replicate some basic PS workflows in it) but mind you, it is primarily a painting software. I am to unable to use PS as I don't use any OS supported by it. RawTherapee I don't use. Nothing technical, just a matter of preference.
I've been using Linux since the mid 90s and its my main OS for everything except image and video editing. I tried all the raw processors and even bought Corel Aftershot Pro, which is still the first step in my workflow(getting files off the card and onto a disk). But sadly none of the open source tools really come close to the proprietary ones for ease of use and image quality. I don't use Adobe, but I do use DxO Photolab, followed by Nik collection followed by Affinity Photo. On Linux I occasionally jump into GIMP for some tweaks and I use Darktable to edit the raws from one of my Lumix compacts because DxO don't support it! Darktable is awesome but ease of use is horrific, minute adjustments make huge changes etc. Video editing software on Linux is even worse (although I'm assured DaVinci Resolve can be made to work and Lightworks is now almost usable if your PC is powerful enough)
But the UI/UX is so awful. It’s the big weak point of open source desktop apps. Instead, for $10 a month, I get a really good UX that doesn’t waste my time and both LR and PS. Free software is great if you don’t value your time.
Enjoyed watching Tom really like your editing videos 👍
Thank you Thomas! ✊🙋♂️
One important thing to mention is that you chose the camera standard profile before you started editing. The choice of profile has a huge impact on your starting image.
Another excellent video, thanks
if I may suggest Negative Lab for your scan conversions...you will be impressed
Thanks for a great overview on you processing!!
have you perhaps published a book with some of your photography, kind of like a collection
One other option for the X-T4: use Capture One to batch convert your RAW files into 16-bit TIFF and then edit in Lightroom; you lose some RAW funcionality in Lr, like white balance or profile selection, but the detail is way better than with the Iridient transformation. Is it also a more expensive option, but at least you get the most detail and still can use your usual Lr environment (for me I really don't wat to lose it, because for the same price I also get Photoshop and keep my Lr plugins, like Negative Lab Pro, for scanned film processing).
Thanks for the video. I just picked up a XT-4 (longtime Canon user) I’m eager to check out the Iridient plug-in.
Loved this. Thanks for posting. 💜
What a great video, learned so much! Also: that mountain range looks like a giant sleeping dragon. Awesome! :)
"I don't want to use another piece of software to work with the X-Trans images, so I'll use another piece of software to convert them."
Never change, Thomas, never change!
Very good Video --on the Film sharpening why not use High Pass Sharpening
Great job!👍Small and fast editing by you in both Adobe version.👌
Always look forward to, & enjoy, your videos Thomas but found the background music a tad distracting on this one, other than that, another great video thanks!
I also use Iridient for my Fuji files and am wondering which settings you use with X-Transformer. I am still struggling a bit with the correct settings for the sharpest outcome of my X-T3 images. Can you share yours with me and other Iridient users?
Thomas, watching this I was wondering if it wouldn't be easier for you editing with camera raw instead of jumping between Lightroom and Photoshop. Lightroom, like capture one it's better when processing in batches. For you, processing "oners", camera raw would allowed you to do basically everything you mentioned here in a non destructive way.
Lightroom is basically Camera Raw on steroids and is also non-destructive.
@@JohnDrummondPhoto not in the way that he is using it, creating dng files. But as I said, Lightroom shows its strenght when processing in batches or creating catalogues. Here he is jumping between photoshop and lightroom when probably he could have a more straight forward workflow with camera raw.
@@juanQuedo ACR and LR have the same problem interpreting Fuji X-Trans files, which are actually 3 files embedded together. Both apps will show and edit one visible sub-file but not the other two, so much detail is lost. That is why Tom converted the X-Trans file to a DNG, to retain and use all the raw data. He'd need to do that for best results in ACR, too. And, the DNG file is distinct from the raw file, which remains intact and visible in the thumbnail row.
As for why LR instead of ACR? If Tom is like me, it's just familiarity. He didn't even use Photoshop at all until the last year or so, other than focus stacking and image cleanup. Before that he was all Lightroom. I'm also using LR and PS similarly to Tom, because I know LR.