CaptureOne Archives - Luigi Barbano Photography

Feb 13

by Barbano Luigi in Uncategorized, BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, ethic, Fujifilm 0 comments tags: house for sale, italy, photography, piedmont

Contests, editing, advertising and trust

Few days ago it was snowing in my little town in the Italian region of Piemonte. It was quite beautiful and I took some pictures from the balcony. My reason was not just to have some photographic fun but also to create some images to promote the sale of my house. I posted this image on FaceBook and a friend commented: “if he had a red umbrella that would be a competition print possibly loan collection!” I’m sure it was a compliment and a way to stimulate me in a moment I’m getting far away from photographic competitions and some associations. But this made me think. Why do we have to modify every image with a contest or likes in our mind? I like this picture because it’s real. It was not snowing anymore so no need for an umbrella, eventually why red when the most common umbrellas here are the cheap interchangeable black ones?This is not a contest image that will catch the attention of a judge in 3 seconds on a screen, but I do not care, it is an honest one. Part of my idea is to show how beautiful is the view from this house. I […]

Feb 21

by Barbano Luigi in Uncategorized, BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, Film photography, Fujifilm, News 10 comments tags: Acros, analogue camera, digital camera, film photography, film versus digital, Fujifilm, Hasselblad, photogrpahy, XPro-2

Fuji Acros Digital vs Fuji Acros Film

Digital or Film? Fuji Acros Digital on a XPro-2 compared to Fuji Acros 100 Film on Hasselblad 6×6… who will be the winner? Few weeks ago I did a non scientific comparison between black and white digital and film, using my beloved Fuji XPro-2 and a Pentax 67 with Ilford FP4. The article got a lot of interest and was also published on Fuji X Passion magazine. I decided to improve the test and use Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 film, instead of Ilford FP4 and Hasselblad instead of Pentax. The use of actual Acros film instead of Ilford is obvious and needed for a less casual comparison. Hasselblad instead of Pentax is because I suspected some lack of sharpness was caused by the lenses, and since I have used Hasselblad all my life and I’m sure were the best analogue medium format camera and optics, I simply wanted to eliminate every variable related to the lens. As I said before: I know that, scanning the negative, part of the process is still digital so is not perfect I do not intend to give all the answers I did this just for fun and to understand myself a little better […]

Jan 31

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, Film photography, Fujifilm, Uncategorized 8 comments tags: film photography, film vs digital, Fuji Acros, fuji XPro-2, Ilford FP4, Pentax 67, photography

Digital Fuji Acros vs Ilford FP4 Film

Is Black and white better with digital or film? I compared the Fuji Acros film simulation on my XPro-2 with an Ilford FP4 film on my Pentax 67. Lately I had the time to scan old negatives and I was pretty impressed by the quality and quantity of information available on film, so I decided to use film again, particularly for the PhoenixPhotoProject. The quality of the images created was pretty impressive so I decided to try some film in medium format. I used to work with Hasselblad but I decided to get a used Pentax 67 and have some fun with it. Next time a Pentax vs Hasselblad comaparision! I took some pictures on the snow in a sunny day. The dynamic range a the quality of the tones were great and I started to have the feeling that film can be better than digital sometime. I decided to do a simple non scientific comparison and take the same pictures with the XPro-2, in RAW and jpg with the Acros simulation, and with the Pentax 67 with a roll of Ilford FP4. The choice of a medium format film, compared to an APS-C digital is very simple, 24 MegaPixel […]

Oct 23

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, Fujifilm, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: autumn, colors, fall, Fuji 60mm, Fuji XPro2, photography

Autumn walk

One night of lower temperatures painted the hills with beautiful fall colors, the sky was very clear thanks to some wind last night, so I took my camera and went to take a little walk this morning. Sometime is nice to just relax walking around and enjoying the beauty. All the images are taken with a Fuji XPro2 and 60mm f2.4 lens.

Dec 01

by Barbano Luigi in CaptureOne, BlogUpdates, News, Uncategorized 1 comments tags: CaptureOne, CaptureOne vs Adobe, PhaseOne, RAW converter

Why I choose CaptureOne

Today PhaseOne released the version 10 of CapturOne, I still have to test in deep the new version and I plan to do some tutorials about it in the next days (yes, Christmas time is perfect to work on more personal projects) but for now I want to tell why I switched from Adobe ACR (or Lightroom) to CaptureOne. As many photographers I never explored RAW converters before, everybody was using Adobe, I was using Adobe. Photoshop is really a standard in image editing and I used it to retouch my scanned images well before the digital cameras became the norm. When I got my first digital it was the normal choice to convert the RAW in ACR, and I continued for years with the same workflow. When I changed from film to digital I was stuck in photographic mental crisis. With film I used the Fuji Provia a lot for my commercial assignments, and that was meaning the need to be able to have perfect light and exposure. The tolerance of the Provia was a maximum of a third of a stop, and to be precise, when I used it in the view camera, I considered the tenth of […]

Aug 21

by Barbano Luigi in IR Photography, BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, Uncategorized 4 comments tags: Fuji, Fujifilm, Infrared photography, Luigi Barbano, photography, X Pro 1

InfraRED Fujifilm X Pro 1

I always enjoyed infrared photography, starting with the Kodak Infrared film I always had great satisfaction exploring the infrared part of the spectrum. When I switched to digital photography I forgot infrared for a while until I got my Canon 5D converted to infrared by LifePixel. The conversion was great, the support was perfect but when the camera was sent back to Italy the italian customs asked me to pay the taxes not only on the modification but also on the value of the camera. At the end of the game I had to spend around 700 Euros for a conversion that costs usually $300. I decided to convert a Fujifilm X Pro 1 to infrared and this time I decided to try to do it myself buying the filter directly in Italy from Adriano Lolli Costruzioni Ottiche Meccaniche and avoiding all the import costs. The choice of the X Pro 1 was very simple. I had bought a new X Pro 1 with the 18mm when the new model came around, I did it because was really a great deal (450 Euros included an extra battery, a memory card and the leather bag, since than the price […]

Dec 03

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: CaptureOne 9, PhaseOne, raw conversion, video tutorial

CaptureOne 9 is here!

CaptureOne 9 is arrived, full of new features and improvements. You can check what is new here, and do not forget to use the coupon code AMBBARBANO when you buy it to get the 10% discount!

Dec 03

by Barbano Luigi in CaptureOne, IR Photography, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: CaptureOne 9, Infrared photography, Luigi Barbano

Some Infrared pictures

I started to take some pictures with my IR converted EOS 5D by LifePixel and I’m having a lot of fun! Every weather situation is different and can provide an original interpretation of the subject, even the fog that is usually not the best scenario for IR, can come out pretty good. All the pictures are elaborated with CapturOne 9. Saving in jpg to share BW on internet is a crime and you can see it form the banding in the sky… bust still Internet does not manage 16 bits files…

Nov 13

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, IR Photography 2 comments

Infrared with CaptureOne8

Here a brief tutorial that explain how to use CaptureOne8 to convert infrared RAW files generated by IR modified cameras. I had my camera modified by LifePixel and it’s a lot of fun… soon also some pictures!

Jul 28

by admin in CaptureOne, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Capture One, Color Balance, PhaseOne, tutorial

Capture One 8 – Color Balance tutorial

This video explain how to use the Color Balance Tool in Capture One 8