A Potpourri of Kevin L Hoag Photography
It's about the color and the light, and the relaxation I've achieved in photography. I don't try to sell images. I don't enter contests. I am simply thankful to capture and process my photographs, working alone or with friends. In looking through my portfolio I was reminded that I have no specialty or favorite type of photography. A potpourri seemed the most appropriate description.
“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.” Henri Cartier-Bresson
Birds of South Texas and Z9 Image Processing
As I've posted earlier, I participated in a workshop that Nikonian Nancy Elwood led in South Texas - quite near to my home. This post includes a few more images and a lot of learning about post-processing the Z9 images. The first thing we noticed was that images processed through Adobe Camera RAW were often quite noisy. Nancy and I both began comparing these to images exported as TIF files from NX Studio. The NX Studio images were considerably less noisy. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing - it made a nice start but clearly the software is doing some unknown processing. However, I also learned a few more important things. First, I found that any further processing within NX Studio took away some of the initial attractions. It was best to export them immediately and work further in Photoshop. I also found that the April 22 Adobe update reduced the noise from the Camera RAW images. While color balance and other aspects of file management were already fine Adobe definitely made some adjustments in the latest update. I also found that using Topaz Denoise after Camera Raw produces identical quality to the NX Studio to TIF export approach. In the end my conclusion is that we have more than one really good path for Z9 image processing. Kevin
As I've posted earlier, I participated in a workshop that Nikonian Nancy Elwood led in South Texas - quite near to my home. This post includes a few more images and a lot of learning about post-processing the Z9 images. The first thing we noticed was that images processed through Adobe Camera RAW were often quite noisy. Nancy and I both began comparing these to images exported as TIF files from NX Studio. The NX Studio images were considerably less noisy. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing - it made a nice start but clearly the software is doing some unknown processing. However, I also learned a few more important things. First, I found that any further processing within NX Studio took away some of the initial attractions. It was best to export them immediately and work further in Photoshop. I also found that the April 22 Adobe update reduced the noise from the Camera RAW images. While color balance and other aspects of file management were already fine Adobe definitely made some adjustments in the latest update. I also found that using Topaz Denoise after Camera Raw produces identical quality to the NX Studio to TIF export approach. In the end my conclusion is that we have more than one really good path for Z9 image processing. Kevin
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