I think it's great that you keep presenting your artistic thought process when going through each editing step, and that you discuss in quite a detailed way how you will be seeking to achieve the desired effects with particular C1 functionalities :). Thank you!
Having just discovered you on UA-cam I must say I am learning loads from your work and best of all its with Capture one which I have recently changed over to, Anyway thank you for your hard work and you will always get a thumbs up from me
Brilliant videos, your content is what I have been looking for, for three years! I have only just found you but you appeared to have stopped making videos, such a shame. However thank you so much!
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I'm learning not only a lot about the power of Capture One, but also, and even more importantly for me, how you envision an image and use post processing to realize the vision. You seem to know exactly what you're looking for and how to achieve it. It's exciting to see how you take seemingly mundane landscape shots and turn them into artistic successes. So many landscape photographers seem stuck on highly saturated golden hour images of iconic scenes that have been, frankly, in one form or another, done many times before. I am keenly interested in comparisons you make between your images and Japanese prints. I'd like to learn more about how to incorporate these values into my photography.
Hi John, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Before recording a video on editing process I already edit the image in advance, so I can show at the beginning the original version and the final result that I will be working towards. I wouldn't say that I know exactly what I'm looking for - sometimes I have more or less clear idea of the direction I want to go. But most often not and this keeps the whole process of taking photos and editing - exciting. If I recorded a video without preparation at times it would be 2 or 3 hours of trying different things and giving up. I have images that are more challenging, they have to wait for me to develop as an artist to possibly turn them into something satisfying. Or maybe that will never happen, but I'd say this very unpredictability is what makes it worth trying. I agree with you on taking photos in iconic locations and then trying to mimic the look of some famous photographers. Well, I just find it boring. To me photography is not a competition, neither an aim to reach any specific place and finally "get it". Quite an interesting observation was for me to discover that I could spend 3 hours in a forest with typical wide angle lens and bring home average material, not exciting enough to even try to process it. But playing around with a portrait lens and photographing for example a small stream can bring unexpected results - with all the beautiful detail, subtle colors and its own hidden energy. In the end the image is either given to me or not, there is no way to force it. I'll try to find some images that would reflect the idea of operating with vast negative spaces and will try to come up with a video on it. Here is what I'm thinking of as a reference www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/hill-auction-gallery/asian-chinese-japanese-oriental-scroll-painting-1227899 Greetings from 🇵🇱
For me too working with 50mm or higher focal length in woodland can simplify the chaos. Color grading is also helpful. The Matte effect i have to experiment with.
I often use the 50mm for forests and landscapes, it makes one have to work harder for the shot (as opposed to spraying everything), but, makes for far more 'intimate' photos.
@@a.keithclarke7975 Yes, exactly! 50mm opens up a new dimension - you are simply not able to see these small things when looking through a wide angle glass.
Great tips! I do forest photography and am always at a loss as to 'busy' photos that I still love. Love the vignetting tip! Keep them coming, and thanks!
Wonderful! Please do, the matt effect gives even stronger result on B&W. It is one of my fav techniques to soften strong, excessive contrast in a B&W image.
@@KasiaZmokla It's part of the family: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgisk_kjempe_-_baby.jpg Thanks for the tip for using a portrait lens for forest photography! I plan to take a walk in the forest tomorrow, and will now bring my tele-zoom. But I'll definitely get the Samyang 75 mm f1.8 portrait lens for my future forest photography!
@@bioliv1 Here it looks tiny, on the first pic it looked as twice the size. Maybe that's just different lens ;) Definitely try out some different lens, it's fun!
@@KasiaZmokla It's an EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM for both images, but you can buy it if you want, as I bought an X-T200 Fujifilm as our new family camera, I'll give it to my 3 girls as an Xmas gift, and I hope this camera can make them interested in photography as well. I followed your advice and tried some forest photography this evening, 13 out of 15 images shot with a telephoto lens: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Borgenkampen+27-11-20&title=Special%3ASearch&go=G%C3%A5&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1 What do you think? I planned to walk to a lake, but lost the path, instead I found a small canyon I liked very much. Maybe I try another path to the lake tomorrow morning?
All tips were great, but I especially like your subtle vignette. Two questions: Is the saturation slider in the color tool the same as the one in exposure? Any reason why you treated the blown highlights with the highlights slider instead of the whites slider? Today is Thanksgiving in my country and I am especially grateful for you.
Hi, that's actually a great question. To be honest I'm not 100% sure, but just run a quick test right now and it seems that both sliders produce the same results. Checked the same photo at -30, no difference. Regarding the HDR sliders - typically the Highlights slider will give stronger result, as it covers wider luminosity range. I would go for Whites if I had an image with wide overexposed area. Anyway, it is always best to test and check what renders best result. Thank you, that's very kind of you! I'm moved ☺️ Happy Thanksgiving!
When using a radial mask to produce a vignette do you also use the lens corrections when images were shot with wider apertures f2.5 (but not wide open). I am never sure if I prefer to apply lens corrections then vignette or embrace the character of the lens and work from there.
To be honest I hardly ever apply any lens corrections, unless they are really needed (eg purple fringing & chromatic aberration corrections in certain images). I would touch the Light Falloff slider only if the vignette "produced" by a specific lens is distracting. That could be the case if the foreground is sort of plain, does not contain any detail and therefore vignetting looks fake and unnecessary. So definitely it's a good idea to start with the "natural" vignette caused by the lens in question and either reduce it in the Lens Correction tab, or take it further. As always - less is more imo.
Hi, Kasia. Congratulations for your videos. They are very interesting. At ancient Rome, there was a Senator (The old Caton), that finished all his discurses, without interesting what was he talking about, telling: "Cartago must be distroyed". I'll do the same. When a course about color palette?
Hi Eduardo - I'm assuming you mean that I create a set of adjustments, then copy them and apply to another image. If I make further adjustments on the first image the second one will not be changed. If you decide that you want to apply the additional adjustments to your second image you have to do that manually.
A new video idea: do you ever use the keystone tool with the guides NOT parallel to each other to straighten a picture when just using Rotate would cut off something necessary close to a side? I’ve tried this and it’s great but would like to understand it better
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Every time I watch your tutorials, I learn something new. I feel like Capture One should hire you!
Wow, thanks Jenn! ☺️
I think it's great that you keep presenting your artistic thought process when going through each editing step, and that you discuss in quite a detailed way how you will be seeking to achieve the desired effects with particular C1 functionalities :). Thank you!
You are welcome Pawel! Thanks for sharing your feedback, I’m happy to hear you get value from my videos :)
exactly what i was thinking .. it is more like how to create art using c1 .. great work
Having just discovered you on UA-cam I must say I am learning loads from your work and best of all its with Capture one which I have recently changed over to, Anyway thank you for your hard work and you will always get a thumbs up from me
What a great tip with for the vignetting. Thank you! I learned a lot from this video.
Brilliant videos, your content is what I have been looking for, for three years! I have only just found you but you appeared to have stopped making videos, such a shame. However thank you so much!
You have no idea how much I needed this! Thank you.
Haha, so happy for you! Enjoy :)
Outstanding. Explained with clarity as always and new techniques to learn.
Thank you Ong Taik!
Wery intresting. Much fotographers dosent share techniek you are sharing. Appreciate.
Never thought to use the contrast tool in a vignette. I'll have to try that. Thanks.
You’re welcome Bob :)
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I'm learning not only a lot about the power of Capture One, but also, and even more importantly for me, how you envision an image and use post processing to realize the vision. You seem to know exactly what you're looking for and how to achieve it. It's exciting to see how you take seemingly mundane landscape shots and turn them into artistic successes. So many landscape photographers seem stuck on highly saturated golden hour images of iconic scenes that have been, frankly, in one form or another, done many times before. I am keenly interested in comparisons you make between your images and Japanese prints. I'd like to learn more about how to incorporate these values into my photography.
Hi John, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Before recording a video on editing process I already edit the image in advance, so I can show at the beginning the original version and the final result that I will be working towards. I wouldn't say that I know exactly what I'm looking for - sometimes I have more or less clear idea of the direction I want to go. But most often not and this keeps the whole process of taking photos and editing - exciting. If I recorded a video without preparation at times it would be 2 or 3 hours of trying different things and giving up. I have images that are more challenging, they have to wait for me to develop as an artist to possibly turn them into something satisfying. Or maybe that will never happen, but I'd say this very unpredictability is what makes it worth trying.
I agree with you on taking photos in iconic locations and then trying to mimic the look of some famous photographers. Well, I just find it boring. To me photography is not a competition, neither an aim to reach any specific place and finally "get it". Quite an interesting observation was for me to discover that I could spend 3 hours in a forest with typical wide angle lens and bring home average material, not exciting enough to even try to process it. But playing around with a portrait lens and photographing for example a small stream can bring unexpected results - with all the beautiful detail, subtle colors and its own hidden energy. In the end the image is either given to me or not, there is no way to force it.
I'll try to find some images that would reflect the idea of operating with vast negative spaces and will try to come up with a video on it. Here is what I'm thinking of as a reference www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/hill-auction-gallery/asian-chinese-japanese-oriental-scroll-painting-1227899
Greetings from 🇵🇱
For me too working with 50mm or higher focal length in woodland can simplify the chaos. Color grading is also helpful. The Matte effect i have to experiment with.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, no more horror vacui ;)
I often use the 50mm for forests and landscapes, it makes one have to work harder for the shot (as opposed to spraying everything), but, makes for far more 'intimate' photos.
@@a.keithclarke7975 Yes, exactly! 50mm opens up a new dimension - you are simply not able to see these small things when looking through a wide angle glass.
Great tutorial, thank you!
Great tips! I do forest photography and am always at a loss as to 'busy' photos that I still love. Love the vignetting tip! Keep them coming, and thanks!
Glad it was helpful Keith! Thanks for watching and sharing your feedback :)
I looooove the matte trick/curve
maybe I would use this in my B/W edits also ;)
Wonderful! Please do, the matt effect gives even stronger result on B&W. It is one of my fav techniques to soften strong, excessive contrast in a B&W image.
I liked the last image most.
Thanks for your thoughts Øyvind! Hope the little rabbit is happy :)
@@KasiaZmokla It's part of the family: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgisk_kjempe_-_baby.jpg
Thanks for the tip for using a portrait lens for forest photography! I plan to take a walk in the forest tomorrow, and will now bring my tele-zoom. But I'll definitely get the Samyang 75 mm f1.8 portrait lens for my future forest photography!
@@bioliv1 Here it looks tiny, on the first pic it looked as twice the size. Maybe that's just different lens ;)
Definitely try out some different lens, it's fun!
@@KasiaZmokla It's an EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM for both images, but you can buy it if you want, as I bought an X-T200 Fujifilm as our new family camera, I'll give it to my 3 girls as an Xmas gift, and I hope this camera can make them interested in photography as well.
I followed your advice and tried some forest photography this evening, 13 out of 15 images shot with a telephoto lens: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Borgenkampen+27-11-20&title=Special%3ASearch&go=G%C3%A5&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
What do you think? I planned to walk to a lake, but lost the path, instead I found a small canyon I liked very much. Maybe I try another path to the lake tomorrow morning?
I agree, the last images was lovely!
All tips were great, but I especially like your subtle vignette. Two questions:
Is the saturation slider in the color tool the same as the one in exposure?
Any reason why you treated the blown highlights with the highlights slider instead of the whites slider?
Today is Thanksgiving in my country and I am especially grateful for you.
Hi, that's actually a great question. To be honest I'm not 100% sure, but just run a quick test right now and it seems that both sliders produce the same results. Checked the same photo at -30, no difference.
Regarding the HDR sliders - typically the Highlights slider will give stronger result, as it covers wider luminosity range. I would go for Whites if I had an image with wide overexposed area. Anyway, it is always best to test and check what renders best result.
Thank you, that's very kind of you! I'm moved ☺️ Happy Thanksgiving!
When using a radial mask to produce a vignette do you also use the lens corrections when images were shot with wider apertures f2.5 (but not wide open). I am never sure if I prefer to apply lens corrections then vignette or embrace the character of the lens and work from there.
To be honest I hardly ever apply any lens corrections, unless they are really needed (eg purple fringing & chromatic aberration corrections in certain images). I would touch the Light Falloff slider only if the vignette "produced" by a specific lens is distracting. That could be the case if the foreground is sort of plain, does not contain any detail and therefore vignetting looks fake and unnecessary.
So definitely it's a good idea to start with the "natural" vignette caused by the lens in question and either reduce it in the Lens Correction tab, or take it further. As always - less is more imo.
@@KasiaZmokla thanks 🙏
@@nickward2922 Welcome!
Hi, Kasia. Congratulations for your videos. They are very interesting. At ancient Rome, there was a Senator (The old Caton), that finished all his discurses, without interesting what was he talking about, telling: "Cartago must be distroyed". I'll do the same. When a course about color palette?
One more question. When you copy what you've done in a photo to another one, if you modify the first, the second one is automatically modified?
Hi Eduardo - I'm assuming you mean that I create a set of adjustments, then copy them and apply to another image. If I make further adjustments on the first image the second one will not be changed. If you decide that you want to apply the additional adjustments to your second image you have to do that manually.
A new video idea: do you ever use the keystone tool with the guides NOT parallel to each other to straighten a picture when just using Rotate would cut off something necessary close to a side? I’ve tried this and it’s great but would like to understand it better
That's a great idea! On my list, thank you :)