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Testing these new programs has enabled me to think about was I need and expect from my photo editor.
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There has been (and still is) a lot of publicity around the software, many reviewers criticised the bugs, the slow speed and the lack of features that left it clearly behind the industries standard editor which is Lightroom.įast forward a year and a half, I read that the Photo Raw 2018.5 was a usable piece of software so I gave it a try. Although I disregarded it for years when it was still called Perfect photo suite because it lacked any kind of photo management (DAM) and raw processing, in 2017 the company released its first version of the Photo Raw software. In the list of photo management and editors, ON1 Photo Raw has been under my radar for a while. It is a path to explore … the only way is forwards! Why ON1 Photo Raw may be for me. So which do you prefer : the colour version or the b&w version? I have also masked out sometimes parts of the photos to keep the original colours and this can make some areas pop! In the photos in this post, I have followed this method. I have tried and consequently excluded using presets or LUTs to change the colours because I don’t feel I have much control on what I am doing and I don’t think I will learn much. I’m not saying that it is enough but it is a start. By shifting separately the red, green and blue curves, it is possible to make subtle changes to the hues in the shadows and highlights that completely change the way the photo looks. Any decent software with a curves adjustment is enough.
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There are a lot of useful videos on YouTube that explain what it is and how to do it. To come back to colour, a good starting point seems to be colour grading.
I have used Lightroom and now use ON1 photo raw quite a lot and in all honesty, the adjustments are the same, the methods are the same. I know where to go in the software, what to do. Raw files tend to be that way, but I have enough practice now to get a decent black and white image. I need to add to all that to be aware of the colours : contrasts between colours, complimentary colours… Even so, when I get in front of my computer and I look at my images, the colours are flat and rather lifeless. I have put a lot of time and effort into pre-visualising my photos, trying to see the light and the contrasts at the same time as imagining the photo I am about to take, looking at the people around me and trying to predict where they will be and what they will do… Phew! Exhausting! My inspiration has come from the French photographers Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Sabine Weiss… all who photographed in black and white and often for a good reason!Īs I spend time on the internet, I realise that a lot of street photographers use colour for their work but at the same time, that the colour of my own photographs isn’t as compelling or as powerful. I haven’t really consciously thought about it really but all my street photography has always been in black and white. I started doing more and more photography in different genres : landscapes, long exposures, macro, portraits, high-speed, street… I think I have tried almost everything! Street photography has been growing on me since 2012, slowly but surely. When I bought my first digital camera (a Canon EOS 400D), I shot family and holiday snapshots in colour. I shot black and white film mostly but as I was a student, I didn’t do much film photography and after a while stopped photography altogether. When I first started out in photography, I had my fathers Praktika and a 50mm lens. Fujifilm x-pro 3 with Laowa 65mm macro f/2.8 lens at f/2.8.
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Fujifilm x-pro 3 with Samyang 12mm manual focus lens. Edited in Fuji Raw Studio with a Kodachrome 64 film sim recipe taken from fuji x weekly. I took a short burst in continuous autofocus (af-c) to be sure to get the subject in a nice position.
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Feel free to leave a comment or a question below! Fujifilm x-pro 3 with 18mm f/2 lens at f/2. I will try to share these photos regularly, giving some technical information about them. Since last October, we have been giving ourselves a weekly challenge and it has just occurred to me that I could share my photos. We have a weekly live meeting to chat though and to keep a minimum of momentum. We have set up a Discord channel to stay in contact and to show our photos. Our yearly exhibition was cancelled in March 2020 and has been pushed back, then cancelled several times.
During this coronavirus pandemic, our photography club is at a standstill.
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