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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 …

Capture One Pro workflow with professional food photographer Rachel Korinek

We asked Australian-born, Canda-based food photographer Rachel Korinek of Two Loves Studio to share her secrets for a smooth workflow that helps her capture appetizing scenes and create mouth-watering images for her clients. Read her step-by-step guide for a faster workflow from shoot to delivery. As a professional food photographer, Capture One Pro has allowed me to seamlessly tether a photo shoot, edit and select as I go, followed by efficiently exporting with Export Recipes. An overview of my editing workflow is as follows: ● Tethering and syncing basic edits to each new photo. ● Selecting hero shots using star ratings. ● Editing selected images based on client needs or food stories. ● Taking images to be retouched into Photoshop as a PSD. ● Exporting files into organized folders using Export Recipes. Let’s discuss the workflow approach I take in a little more depth. Tethering & Syncing Base Edits and Metadata. Tethering allows still life and food photographers to make small compositional changes that are important to tell a food story. Capture One Pro also …

A plate of food. Image shared with Capture One Live

How Quentin Décaillet delivers images faster with Capture One Live 

As we come out of lockdown, many have discovered new ways of working that better suit a post-pandemic world where remote collaboration is the new norm and clients expect to be connected throughout the process. Capture One Live is the latest tool to help photographers like Quentin Décaillet work smarter, faster, and closer with their clients in a new reality. “I regularly shoot for a hotel. Every three months I go there to shoot a new menu,” says beauty and product photographer and Capture One ambassador Quentin Décaillet. “The art director that takes care of the shoots for the hotel isn’t always on set. The last time I was there, they instead had someone from the agency present.” He explains that because the agency rep had other tasks and was not able to stay on the set at all times, he shared his shoot with them through Capture One Live. “While they were moving around in the hotel, they could keep checking and make sure everything was on schedule and looking good. The art director, …