This shot is probably my favourite, a portrait of Todd Winter's father. On the first day we were out and about, but on the second day it was cold, wet and rainy so we stayed at the Jura Lodge and shot a range of portraits: some with strobes, some with natural light. capturedĪs you know, I was recently on Jura, running a two day photography workshop for the winners of a competition I judged last year. And I'm glad I did as I'm pleased with how it turned out. So I grabbed a few frames and we headed back to the Jura Lodge for a nightcap or two. well, relatively well lit, and b) it was a whole lot more interesting than trying to photograph the boat as a whole. The shots weren't working out - mostly because the boat was rocking in the water and I couldn't get a decent shutter speed without cranking the ISO up to at least 12800 so I gave up.Īs I started packing away my gear I wandered to the rear of the boat, which I hadn't even looked at at this point, and noticed that a) it was well lit. At that point a fishing boat pulled up at the end of the jetty so I started taking a few shots of the boat in profile against the increasingly dark sky. Ian Mylam and I had spent a good couple of hours photographing from the end of the jetty near the Jura hotel, and we'd got some good shots and had just about decided to wrap it up for the night. This is one of those shots that almost didn't get taken, simply because it wasn't what I was intent on shooting at the time. If you're a Mac user I'd definitely suggest you give it a try. The bad news is that this is a Mac only product, but the good news is that it's cheap ($75) and you can also download a demo version. None of these are quite as flexible as Camera RAW, but they do produce good results. It also has a range of interesting black and white conversion methods: CIELab Lightness, Luma, Desaturate, Intensity, Custom Tone, Channel Mixer and RAW Color Channel Mixer. Second, it has some great sharpening routines: Unsharp Mask, Hybrid Sharpen, which "uses a combination of low pass/high pass image convolution filters" - and I'm not sure what that means, but it works well - DoG, which "uses the Difference of Gaussians algorithm" (and I don't know what that means either), and my favourite R-L (Richardson-Lucy) Deconvolution which was a sharpening method that was developed to counteract the problems with the initial images from the Hubble Space telescope. In other words, it combines RGB and Lab Color into a single curve, so for this image I was able to use the Lightness curve for contrast and the a* curve for tone, but didn't need to convert to Lab Color first. First, it has the best curves tool I've ever used, with a single dialog that allows you to edit eight separate curves: RGB, Red, Green, Blue, Lightness, Chroma (ab), a* and b*. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Camera RAW but there are two things I especially like. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I downloaded the new version recently and thought I'd give it another try. It's a programme I've had for quite a few years but as Camera RAW improved I've used it less and less. This is quite similar to a shot I posted back in May, but I've posted this one too as I've been experimenting with an alternative RAW processor: Iridient Developer.
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