Ellen likes fresh vegetables, local farm raised meat, and eggs. Going to the local Farmers Market is part of her weekly routine. There’s also a farm here that grows flowers. Each week they bring in the most recent blooms from their acres of wild flowers.
Below is this weeks crop. Pretty impressive.
This image was finished with ON1 Photo RAW. It was shot indoors, no flash. Using ON1, rather than Lightroom was a test. The flow was to use multiple softwares that have specific strengths that general editors do not and see how well the flow worked. Most editors don’t ’play well with others’. This is one of Lightroom’s strengths.
The work flow was;
- ON1 was used to crop, apply a mask to the background, run a color enhancer, last soften the colors.
- The image was sent to Topaz DeNoise for a standard low light DeNoise. Topaz saved the modified image back to ON1 as a tiff file.
- The image was sent to DxO Color Efex. A contrast filter was applied, a detail enhanced was applied, but deleted, a darken/lighten center filter was applied. Color Efex saved the modified image back to ON1 as a tiff file.
- ON1 assigned a color code to mark the image as complete, an export function saved the finished image to jpg, with a predefined date and name, in a new subfolder it created under the original folder.
The end result was this image, just about the same as Lightroom would have made. And it actually took the same time I would have spent in Adobe. ON1 is faster than Lightroom (much faster) and has the same interactions with other imaging systems so it’s really nothing different than I would have done in LR.
If the editor works smooth the transition is not all that much different than if I had done the work directly inside an editor. Except these softwares do the function better, they’re made for specific purposes, not a one size fits all.
OK, this is now much longer than I had planned so I will go to the final goal in post processing for me. The best I can get is using special software on multiple images. Basically get the first image in a series, like a Heron in flight over a swamp, the way I want. Then have all the other images in that series get the changes ‘pasted’ to them. Consistency across them all. With the flow above it’s easy, even using multiple softwares, if the editor ‘plays well with others’.
ON1 is getting pretty close, and works fast, at an inexpensive one time purchase.
😍🤗😎🌻Ellen has the right idea 🤗 Always love supporting local farmers markets and enjoying the down home plants and produce 🌻
Better food in general.
That’s quite a production line you’ve got going there Ted ! Mine is usually just RAW into RawTherapee, JPG out, done 😁 – Sharpening, denoising, coloring, film simulation …. all in one.
That would be the holy grail. In my mind Lightroom (when everything is working) is the benchmark. While we all complain Adobe owns the market, and billions of dollars, because of what it offers. But as we know there’s a price to be paid, both money and general stability.
That workflow is really fast and uses best in market specialty apps. There are a few ‘Fine Art Photography’ shooters here. They actually make a good living, galleries in major cities with their work, etc. Where this is going is they shared their methods with a friend (and me along for the ride) who is also a landscape photographer.
The multi software method is what they do. DxO Silver Efex is a key piece. I could never do what they do, and the gawd awful amount of time spent per image. Of course, again, they make a good living.
Hi Ted, I’m starting a “Recommended Websites” series on Open Source Photography and would love to feature TPJ Photography as the first recommendation. Would you mind if I used a screenshot of your homepage as the article header?
I would love to be part of the series 😃😃. /Screen shot or anything else you might need. Thanks so much.
👍 Thanks Ted !
and…. any images on the web site from January 2024 forward are all OM / Olympic.
Thanks, Ted! I did mention in the article that you came from Canon before switching to OM System. To me, though, the more important part is that people visit your website and look at your photographs. That’s one of the points I keep making on OSP: these days, the sensor matters far less than the photographer behind it. Unless, of course, you happen to be wealthy enough to own the very best and have a crew to carry all the gear around for you. 😉
And the crew landing so much noise you wouldn’t see a thing 😁
BTW, not sure this matters, the Barred Owl on my home page was photographed with a Canon 7d2, aps-c sensor. My pre OM days. Just thought you should know.
Hi Ted, thanks for the heads-up! To be honest, I hadn’t even noticed – and that’s probably the best proof that, once you’re looking at the photograph instead of the camera, nobody can tell whether it was taken with full frame, APS-C or Micro Four Thirds. It’s simply a great image, and that’s what matters.
Thank you 😁😁. I like it and haven’t changed the main image in years. Fits the site.
I completely agree, that’s one gorgeous owl. 😊
This was the first year these Owls haven’t been nesting around the swamps we visit. I rarely hear the ones behind my house also. Our dear leader calls that progress.