Introducing yourself

When you attend small group focused workshops, this is often the first thing everyone starts off with. Introducing yourself to the group.  I am often very surprised on how people open up and speak about their personal lives in this brief duration of their “lime light”.

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Skin tones…

Lightroom (LR) plays a significant part of my work flow. A few years ago, I had tried the approach of using Nikon’s Capture for the process of RAW conversion, however since LR 2 came out, I have given up on using Capture. I choose LR for its DAM capabilities and the batch processing capabilities (and most importantly usability and speed factors). In any case, since its version 2 release, LR has had major changes in its RAW conversion capabilities – especially since it started using DNG profiles.

I however admit I have never been happy with ACR’s (LR) conversion of NEF images -  especially when it comes to skin tones. In my quest to find a better conversion for my new D700 – I recently tried several converters – RAW converter, dcraw, Perfect RAW, Capture One, View NX/Capture NX2 & RAW therapee (via Parallels on Mac). Read more

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