{"id":451,"date":"2009-08-03T21:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2009-08-03T21:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:09:48","slug":"marmelade-fly-on-yellow-flower-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/marmelade-fly-on-yellow-flower-reprise","title":{"rendered":"Marmelade Fly on Yellow Flower Reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last post<\/a> I showed a picture of a marmelade fly on a yellow flower. I would like to revisit that picture to show how much an image can change depending on how – and with which tools – it is processed.<\/p>\n

The original image was captured in RAW format. I then processed it in Adobe Lightroom 2. The result is this:<\/p>\n

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Marmelade Flies on a Yellow Flower processed in Adobe Lightroom 2<\/p><\/div>\n

While I was reasonably happy with the image, I had to do some testing in Capture One Pro<\/a> and decided to see if I could do better. I have long thought that Capture Ones color rendition is much better than Lightrooms. But judge for yourself:<\/p>\n

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Marmelade Flies on a Yellow Flower processed in Capture One Pro and Photoshop<\/p><\/div>\n

Quite a difference, don’t you think? The first rendition looks almost like a painting while the second is so real you can almost touch it.<\/p>\n

So how was it done?<\/p>\n

I first opened the file in Capture One and set the exposure so that none of the color channels would clip. This part is identical to what I did in Lightroom. Note that the yellows are a bit darker in the C1 rendition than in LR. I then exported a 16-bit TIFF file to Photoshop from C1.<\/p>\n

In Photoshop I created a mask to darken the green part to the left of the flower using a curve. A second mark darkened the bright leaf to the left and below the marmelade fly. Then I removed some spots from the yellow petals which were really there (i.e. not dust on the lens or sensor) but which I did not like. All of these steps are identical to what I did in Lightroom except that I did not darken the single bright leaf in LR.<\/p>\n

I then added a watermark copyright note and reduced the size of the file. Finally, I used Pixel Genius PhotoKit Sharpener<\/a> for output sharpening. All of this is fully automatic during the Lightroom export.<\/p>\n

In total I spent about five minutes in Lightroom to get a decent image. I spent about half an hour in Capture One and Photoshop to get an excellent image. There is clearly a trade-off time for quality here.<\/p>\n

That is why I usually perform all my culling, keywording, and rough editing in LR. When I have identified the handful of images with real potential I spend more time on them in C1 and PS. Now if only I could take the LR settings and use them in C1 so that, for example, I do not have to re-crop …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last post I showed a picture of a marmelade fly on a yellow flower. I would like to revisit that picture to show how much an image can change depending on how – and with which tools – it is processed. The original image was captured in RAW format. I then processed it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,54],"tags":[746,629,574,578,623],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-photography","category-technique","tag-capture-one","tag-lightroom","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}