Master the Art of Travel Photography Editing with Capture One

Today's video is a comprehensive guide to photo-editing. I'll show you some of the more important tips and techniques. The idea is to help you make your photos look striking, dramatic, yet realistic and life-like.

Though I'll be using Capture One. Everything you'll learn is applicable to most of the popular photo-editing apps out there.

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0:00 - Introduction
2:59 - The basics
5:06 - How the presets work
5:49 - Some tools & features I love
8:38 - Exporting
9:12 - Embrace the shadows
11:27 - Knowing when to stop
12:33 - Volume in the highlights
14:13 - Enhancing elements & textures
17:07 - Bringing life to the sky
19:42 - Enhancing the sky and what's below
20:39 - Enhancing elements on the human body
23:39 - Taking the idea of enhancing the textures further
24:28 - Adjusting the skin tones
27:07 - Precise sky adjustments with Luma Range
30:48 - Dealing with complex images
35:54 - Final words

[mitchellkphotos]

What did you all think? Do you use some of these kinds of adjustments in your photos? Anyone using Capture One?

[eViperRabbit]

Thank you for another excellent video. Love this type of video.

[federicoflores]

Excellent class Mitchell, how to handle in a simple way how to develop in Capture One.

[philipsutton]

Wow - this was great Mitch. I knew that you mostly used to use LR, so it was fantastic to see you put this out for us C1 users. I'm quite familiar with C1, because I've used it for years (both for my Fuji RAW files and my Nikon RAW files), but I still learned some interesting things from this tutorial. Also, people mostly do these tutorials for landscape photos (which I have zero interest in), but mercifully you included photos of people for us street/events/travel folks - Thanks

[jacquesvanhorick]

Very nice tuto Mitchell. I switched from Lightroom and Photoshop also some time ago when I had to take a monthly subscription and I agree with you about CO. I wish you send some more of this kind. The best Jacques Vanhorick (Belgium).

[robmcd]

Thanks for this Mitchell. I love C1 but account management is so complex and frustrating. My preferred raw editor these days is +jpeg.

[xavierllauger]

Muchas gracias Mitchell por tus videos, son muy didácticos, y tus fotos son fantásticas. Todavía
sigues en Perú?

[nandairawan]

please fix it, the c1 preset is not available in the description link.

[sajalkumarsen]

Fantastic. Is this software only for Sony or for all types of cameras? Thanks

[Veptis]

evolving comment... Done

I have been using C1 through my photography journey. Which is half a decade by now. With my upgrade to a Panasonic body I bought a Pro license. I haven't paid any subscription or upgrade fee since so I am still on version 20, but updates since seem superficial like tooltips. Never ever have I paid Adobe and I only use Lr for 4 hours at a photography class. Didn't like it at all(even simply stuff like performance and non buggy UI, it felt like a 2005 windows app) There is a bunch of stuff I don't like about C1 as well, having learned how coloring works in Resolve you are missing a bunch of scopes. I know that I can't trust my monitor and distribution of my photos is on monitors I don't control either. So I would prefer to have working scopes. To check skin tones for example I have to mose over and watch where the needle jumps to in the histogram.

Never used presets, I don't do any secondary adjustments (but always vignetting and cropping). I often just build a certain look within the first few photos and then copy and apply adjustment to any further shots I want to edit and deliver. Making minor adjustment to exposure and crop as I go. Learning more and more keyboard shortcuts makes this more efficient. But I would love to use hardware controls like my MIDI fader for example.

Color editor is nice, but why is it distinct colors that don't actually correspond to any channels (at least you can preview the channels, try that in LR...) When you could have a continuous Sat vs Hue or Lum vs Hue curve. Why stop there. A Sat vs Lum curve for example is something you can't do in C1; but they are already looking at a HSL representation. All of those tools are in Resolve and work great. And these curves also have spline handles if you want. Sequential nodes are better than layers, but is that even a discussion.

I do have changed my presets for how sharpness and nosie reduction is setup, but I always manually check 'hide distorted areas' since you can't set a default value for it. You are simply throwing out pixels with any corrected lens. There not being a resolution target for distorted debayering also is not great. I am often ending up with more pixels than my camera has for no good reason.

And exporting jepg at 100% is the biggest placebo ever. I no longer do more than 92% and there is no difference. knowing how quantification tables work might help you to see the same and safe nearly 70% of storage.

What I learned from the video is how complicated and combersome secondary adjustments are. But I feel like better tools could make some of the stuff you showed obsolete.

LR has the main sliders in the interactive histogram, which is neat. LR has more control over vignetting. Which I could find a use for. I would want to have more control over all the sharpness, denoise and clarity features. Perhaps just give me the curve instead of making it obscure and partially redundant.

[RichardSilvius]

Early in the video you mentioned using C1 off and on over the years in conjunction with Lightroom. That made me wonder what that does to your file organization. Do you ingest everything to one location, and import it into both LR and C1?

[ModestReaction]

how much editing does Nat Geo allow when you are submitting your work? I always have the impression that it needs to be straight out of camera