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Wildlife Photographers Using Capture One Pro?

mmcmillen
Hello,

Just curious if any pro wildlife photographers use Capture One Pro? I only know of one, Brad Hill, out of BC Canada. Seems like Capture One Pro is used mainly by non-wildlife photographers, but I could be wrong.

Thanks,

Mac
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  • George Barron
    I certainly can't say since I'm not a pro and only shoot a little wildlife myself but I think CO is as suited to wildlife photography as the other primary options that are out there, i.e. LR.

    I think the appeal of CO is traditionally for high end studio work. But, with its increased capabilities I think CO is also attracting a lot of former Aperture users who find LR to be clunky, inelegant and counterintuitive. In the same way I think if there are wildlife pros out there who don't like LR and are moving away from Aperture then CO is a great choice.

    It is still rough around the edges in some respects but Phase One seems to be on the ball in regard to working out usability issues.
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  • mmcmillen
    Thanks for your feedback. I'm an amateur wildlife photographer who has used LR and CO, and agree that CO is getting better all the time. I still think LR is easier to use, but CO has more capability once a person learns how to use it. I still haven't gotten comfortable using CO, so when I want to process an image as quickly as possible I return to using LR. Hopefully CO will continue to improve from a usability standpoint so that it will "stick with me" the way LR has.

    Thanks again,

    Mac
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  • George Barron
    That was pretty much my situation with LR vs Aperture. Aperture felt natural and intuitive. LR did not. I spent a year with LR and found that even after a year of becoming proficient with it that I still disliked it so much that I was avoiding using it. Capture One feels more like Aperture even though I can't say exactly why. CO is also so very flexible in how you lay things out and do things which also helps.
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  • RobiWan
    I'm not a pro photographer, and I can't spend a lot of time for wildlife photography ☹️

    I'm not sure if C1 is a "better" tool for nature7 wildlife photography as LR. More often I have the feeling that the colors are oversaturated. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes it is already too much With LR I will not really happy.

    I would also very much welcome when David was making a webinar for this part of the photograph :top:
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  • hifimacianer
    mmcmillen wrote:
    Thanks for your feedback. I'm an amateur wildlife photographer who has used LR and CO, and agree that CO is getting better all the time. I still think LR is easier to use, but CO has more capability once a person learns how to use it. I still haven't gotten comfortable using CO, so when I want to process an image as quickly as possible I return to using LR. Hopefully CO will continue to improve from a usability standpoint so that it will "stick with me" the way LR has.

    Thanks again,

    Mac


    Funny, thats my experience with lightroom 😂
    I downloaded the trial, and always found it cumbersome and unflexible compared to C1.
    One advise that helped me a lot when I started with C1 was to customize your workspace!
    You can create an own tab that includes all the adjustment tools that you need for your day to day work.
    And you are also able to arrange the tools in the tabs in the order you typically use them.
    That will dramatically speed up your workflow!

    The next step would be to save different workspaces for different steps of your workflow.
    For example you could create Workspace for your "sorting and rating" workflow, with a floating Keyword Panel, a 3 or 4 row browser at the bottom and a smaller "Viewer", to quickly pick, rate and sort your Images after the Import.

    Or a Workspace to make your adjustments, with a huge Viewer and no browser on the sides. And every workspace could have a unique Toolbar with different tools that match the actual workflow. Almost everything is possible there.
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  • photo by FA
    To those wildlife shooters out there;

    As far as I'm aware of, there is currently no support for super long telephoto lenses in CO9 (Nikon wise), pretty much no support anything above 200mm.

    I'm planning to go Masai Mara for a workshop and my kit will have a 300mm f/2.8

    I was wondering if anybody has used this lens with CO9 and whether you need to do any separate adjustment as there isn't a build in support.

    Cheers,

    Fatih
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  • Ian Wilson
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    I'm fortunate in that all my Nikkor lenses are supported (but not fortunate in that I don't have the 300 mm f/2.😎.

    Before I switched to Nikon, I used Olympus, without the benefit of my lenses being supported by Capture One. I would say that most of the time I got pretty good results anyway, and didn't find myself doing adjustments to make lens corrections most of the time. You can still get Capture One to analyse an image in respect of chromatic aberration of you feel the need to do so, and you can correct pincushion or barrel distortion manually using the sliders, but I would suspect that most of the time you will not feel the need to do so.

    Masai Mara! How fantastic. When?

    Ian
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  • George Barron
    I would agree. I would think a fast tele prime of that quality would have very little need for lens correction if any.
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