Author: Paul Reiffer

On the ice road with Paul Reiffer and Capture One for iPad

Going further than anyone to immerse yourself in unique places. Going to bed later and waking up earlier than everyone to find the perfect light and the ultimate angle. That is the life of a landscape photographer. On the road, surrounded by the spectacular scenery in Iceland, photographer Paul Reiffer tried out the new Capture One for iPad to see what it means for taking your work on the go. Join Paul behind the scenes and see how Capture One for iPad can elevate the way you work.   Want to try Capture One for iPad? Download the app here. About Capture One for iPad Capture One for iPad is the latest tool for photographers on the go who want to save time and travel light without compromising on quality. The iPad app has the same image quality and color rendering functionalities as the desktop app, but now in a more portable package. It lets you bring the full power of our RAW converter anywhere you go and be confident that the images you export …

Paul Reiffer's new presets helps give your landscape photography a baseline to work from

Introducing Elevation Styles – Q&A with Paul Reiffer

Producing imagery that reflects the mood and feeling at the time of capture is of utmost importance, particularly when it comes to landscape photography and capturing vivid cityscapes. Working with world-renowned photographer Paul Reiffer, the Elevation Styles pack was designed to ensure that your images retain the essence of the moment and bring decades of photographic experience to your images at the click of a button. Learn more about Paul’s journey and how Elevation Styles takes your images to the next level. So, why did you create Elevation Styles? Was there anything specific that inspired you to create them? I have taught people how to use Capture One Pro for more than ten years and I see people frustrated by the same thing: they find it difficult to get the photo to look like how they saw it at the time. Sometimes when we load the images onto a computer, we don’t necessarily see exactly what we thought was there, or how it felt to be there. So, we’ve built a fast-track to taking your …

Using HDR for architectural photography

While blending or merging several exposures into one final High Dynamic Range (HDR) image remains a popular creative option for landscape photographers over the years, its use in architectural and commercial shoots has some big benefits that are unique to the challenges of shooting these genres. In many scenarios, especially outdoors, photographers can normally rely on graduated filters to balance a scene by blocking large parts of the frame with a neutral density layer – evening up the brightness from the shadows to the highlights. But while this works well on large, sweeping horizons and foregrounds (i.e., landscape shooting), when it comes to making that process work for odd-shaped buildings and structures with various hotspots and dark areas, we’re often unable to use the same approach. And where using a filter isn’t an option, or where the sheer amount of “fill light” you’d need to balance the scene becomes prohibitive, that’s where Capture One’s HDR Merge function can now deliver the results you need. How It’s Used HDR Merge relies on you capturing two or …

Shooting for Panoramic Stitching By Paul Reiffer

So you’re heading out to shoot a panoramic series of images, knowing that Capture One’s latest development can stitch them all together into one seamless photograph when you import them, right? Well, while Capture One’s new Panoramic Stitch is an impressive tool, there are a few things you can do to help get the very best results and most of them are actually at the point of capture. Keeping that in mind, we’re going to detail a few tips and tricks to get the most out of your stitched image, and how to choose the right projection setting for your chosen subject. The process of capturing a sequence of images can be as simple as panning across a single row of 2 shots to blend together into one larger view, through to catching multi-row, 360º “tiny planets” with all the gear that’s needed to do that accurately. Equipment The first thing to say is you don’t necessarily need any additional equipment to get a good stitch in Capture One. It’s been tested and proven on …