There hasn't been a lot of traffic on this forum for awhile. So here are a few zebras. Nothing special, I just tried a post-processing slant towards B&W, not totally, just a bit.

A great pic of some classic zebra social behaviour.

Wink,

Is that processed as a JPG or off the RAW file?

Jeremy

It is off the RAW file with a preset (from a set of presets) in DxO Photolab 2. It was a "one click" post-process converted to a TIFF file exported to Lightroom for downsizing, conversion to JPG and the addition of my copyright. I can't remember which preset I chose, but I can probably go back and find out.

Generally I find the aftermarket presets (this is not one of the DxO preset options) to be a little overboard or weird, not natural. In this case I thought the excess contrast worked well.

Thank you. After some camera changes, I've been working with several RAW processing packages, and am not altogether happy with the workflow. DXO I have not tried.

I agree on the preset filters.

Your image is excellent. Where was it taken?

Thanks,

Jeremy

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Originally posted by farbedo:
Thank you. After some camera changes, I've been working with several RAW processing packages, and am not altogether happy with the workflow. DXO I have not tried.

I agree on the preset filters.

Your image is excellent. Where was it taken?

Thanks,

Jeremy

Nairobi National Park.

Farbedo, thinking about your work flow comment, I have not found a solution which I find easy, efficient and elegant. Everything I have tried has some aspect which makes it cumbersome or redundant or complicated or lacking when compared with another.

Then again, I'm not a professional photographer and a lot of the capability of the best software is not anything I need. If I had a studio I think I would concentrate on learning how to use Capture One. It's probably the best post-processing software out there.

https://blog.captureone.com/10...TlA3WjRsdVdYNmFUYyJ9

There is one downside to Capture One (actually there are several). If you use a medium format camera that is not made by Phase One (which owns Capture One) or Mamiya then it will not work. I don't have any medium format digital cameras so that would not affect me. But Nasim Mansurov, who uses a Fuji large sensor camera, does complain about it.

https://photographylife.com/wh...lace-adobe-lightroom