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Focus & Sharpening

Lesson 46 from: Working with Capture One Pro 9

Nino Batista, Dave Gallagher

Focus & Sharpening

Lesson 46 from: Working with Capture One Pro 9

Nino Batista, Dave Gallagher

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46. Focus & Sharpening

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Class Trailer
1

Class Introduction

14:41
2

History of Capture One

11:50
3

Dave's Capture One Workflow

07:03
4

Licenses, Versions, Keeping Up To Date

05:27
5

How & Why to Upgrade

12:15
6

Workflow Organization Tools

28:57
7

Raw Files & Sidecars

13:46
8

Sessions & Catalogs

19:23

Lesson Info

Focus & Sharpening

focus. Tool Focus is just a big window, right? If I grab that tool looking selected here, it's a big window on the side. If I have a dual monitor situation, I do understand why you'd want that focus, too, on a dual monitor situation so you can see a stack of focuses while you're shooting. It's nice to be able to see while I'm shooting to see whether that that if I'm worried about that photographer, get accurately doing it, I could be watching. Oh, is he sharp? Kenny Focus and I can see it popping up as we're tethered on the side to see if they've got their own. If they actually get their eyes right that day and they didn't have too much to drink the night before, they can't focus today that No, that's not you. So there's there's ways and reasons we wanted to use the focus toe on a side as a retouch. Er, no. I mean, I don't I can't imagine is a retired because you just do it that way. And your focus is that quick eso It's quicker there. Six of 1/2 a dozen another your your choice on the...

Focus Toe navigator. Focus sharpening. All right now sharpening. I need to have sharpened image because if I don't have a sharpened image, if I just pull sharpening all the way out, right, Just just gone on my image. It doesn't look anymore as if my image was ever shot over sharpened. When I scanned my film, I scan my film in the scanner would already already put sharpening in it. If you saw a scan piece of film that didn't sharpen on the scanner, it was inaccurate. You'd be unhappy with the scan already. Put some sharpening into it. When my art directors behind me and see if I can focus, I wanna have sharpening on right. I absolutely want have sharpened. So I want that to be on all right, a lot sharpening to be up and maybe, or even, maybe even give it a little bit of extra punch and sharpening right. I might while on set, boost the heck out of my sharpness wall on set. If someone's watching behind to see if I've got a sharp camera, if I can actually shoot that day, I might. However, however, I strongly strongly believe that sharpening has done an output. And if I'm shooting for archival purposes shooting party, I don't want to put it on a Scharping on there. Yes, it saved us a sidecar. And yes, I can go ahead and remove it later. But why put it there to begin with? Because I'm going to sharpen it later. And Photoshopped so sending it. Ah, cleaner file. Let's say I add a lot of sharpening and then they decide to up res and photo shop. And now I have to up res that sharpened image that's not going to be clean. I always want to sharpen upon the output. So if I then shrink it down to websites, I want to do sharpening upon that output of websites, the edges are gonna be cleaner. You're gonna get less pixel ization of crunchiness or whatever you kind of name you want to call it, but sharpening should be done upon the output. So if that's the case, if my art director is right there and I want them to see my camera, that's my camera, right? You see how good I am? I don't want to add a bunch of Scharping at at the front end what I would do. He's going to my process recipe, right. I go to my 30 by 40 or go to my eight bit tiff, Remember? Says yet read. You're looking at the eight bit tiff, but I'm not processing it. So it's gonna be coming up red. I go to my process recipe and in my file adjustments, I disabled the sharpening. I like that. I like disabling the sharp because if my clients there, I want them to see the sharpest possible image while they're shooting it. So they feel comfortable in my studio. So yeah, yeah, he's got it on these, you know, point here, she they're doing it well. But when I give it to them, I'm getting just enough sharpening that they're happy. Or if I'm sending it somewhere else, I'm disabling sharpness so that they can sharpen upon the up. But I'm the same. I can speak to that for sure, because I definitely use that function because I always sharpening Photoshopped my own way. So even if I kind of preview a pre envisioning of what it might look like sharp, I definitely have that little check box on. Yep, it's a way to keep it sharp, keeping their but then it's gonna be better in the long run.

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Ratings and Reviews

Jesse Furqueron
 

Yes, per some other reviews this started slow. What turned me off was the sales spiel for the class. It also came across as a sales schtick for C1, which is ok given the presenter. Stuck with it (well most of it, had to step away at times) and found it useful. I've had my eye on C1 for a LONG time. I'm not a pro, but would consider myself a pretty serious amateur. I document old mining and narrow gauge steam engines, general travel and now do our product photography (started a new company, so all $ goes to that rather than C1, which I would LOVE to own after seeing C9). Went with Aperture back in the day because of its cataloging and price. Back then C1 didn't have cataloging, though it DID have a 2 tier price structure...(Phase WHY did ya'll do away with this?????). Back to the class. After lunch on the first day I think they found their stride. Second day, especially Nino in the afternoon was quite good. That was probably my fav session. Seemed like most questions came from the in-studio "captive" audience. Expected more from the web? Constructive feedback. 1) Could have condensed things down quite a bit. I liked the more casual approach it took later on first day and on the second day. Dave especially seemed more at ease. 2) Ya'll (Dave especially) seemed to have his topics scripted out. Given the two day nature of this, would have been nice to give the attendees an idea of agenda/timeslots for topics up front. If an agenda/timeline was presented...I totally missed it. But then, I couldn't back up or rewind the live stream when I had to step away several times... if I paused it jumped to the realtime stream :-( 3) C Lve was pushing the "free trial download"...isn't there already a trial download from Phase? What value are ya'll offering in this area above what they offer? I found this annoying, if there's an extended trial period or something through ya'll cool. If not...I'm back to the annoying aspect of it. 4) Nino, get a Cintiq :-) If C1 doesn't have a profile for Cintiq (I'm going to download the trial from Phase) Phase you need to add support for it. 5) Dave's material he presented should be in vids on his website to help him expand his C1 market..fantastic selling tool there Dave....or even better....embedded in the product itself (ala SilverFast). Phase, you listening? 6) Nino, given he's coming from a different angle, eg no skin in selling C1?, he could do a 3-5 hour intensive vid(s) and I'd pay something for that. YMMV but I liked his approach and presentation. Was disappointed no C1 on his YouTube :-( Would I pay 99.00 for this class? Honestly, no. We use 3D graphics (ZBrush) and CAD (Rhino) in our company and have been learning those over the last year. To compare. There is another tutorial company whose name I shall not mention (no, it does not start with an 'L') that specializes in vid classes for those and other 3D products. They structure their offerings on a AFFORDABLE monthly/6mos/yearly all-you-can-eat fee structure. Much more consumer friendly, and quite honestly their videos are very focused and about 4-6 hours per course. I don't see myself paying 99.00 much less 129.00 for just one course like this (especially with the sales spiel content) when other companies have a more customer friendly consumption model. A value for the $ thing. In the end I did learn some things, and I'm glad I watched what I could of it. And yeah, I'm pretty sure after this review I just got taken off the free C1 license contention list...but I'm just being honest...Dave, I will be ordering some of the LCC pocket accessories if I ever get C1...those were cool IMHO. C1 has come quite a ways. When I can, I'll add it to our software arsenal.

ira potter
 

I have been a user of Capture One for a couple of years but have strugled to get my head around the way to use this software as my chosen raw converter, I love the improved quality that Capture One gives me but always seem to end up scratching my head and going back to Lightroom to save time. I haven't been able to watch the full presentation due to time difference, (I am in the U.K), and other commitments but I have learnt so much in the time I have spent watching that I can finally see me waving goodbye to Lightroom in the very near future. The presenters are excellent teachers, they are funny, engaging and thanks guys you really have made a p[ositive difference to how I interact with Capture One software.

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