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The ReEdit

The ReEdit: Editing Skin Tones and Getting More Control in Capture One

Chris Gampat
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10/07/2017
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Chris Gampat The Phoblographer The ReEdit Skin Tone Editing in Capture One 9

Last Updated on 10/07/2017 by Chris Gampat

In today’s episode of The ReEdit, I decided to go back into my portfolio of hard drives to a shoot from 2013. This session was done with a fan favorite: Grace. I was reviewing a Profoto light and the images, even today, hold up. First off, it was done with what’s an old camera by today’s standards, the Canon 5D Mk II. However, when using it with the Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art lens combined with the Profoto light I’m able to get sharpness that rivals modern cameras and lenses. This proves more than anything that your lighting is really what matters. Then I go into the editing process.

The ReEdit

This episode focuses on how to get distracting elements of a photo out of there through cropping. Sometimes masking, cloning and healing work but in Capture One they’re not as effective as it is in Lightroom. That’s where Lightroom still really has a leg up on Capture One. However, I’m sticking with Capture One due to reader requests here. The same ideas and concepts will apply to Capture One and Lightroom, but Capture One is still a much better RAW editor.

On top of cropping, you’ll see what I’m talking about with the RAW processing algorithms, especially when it comes to working with colors. In many of these situations, it was a bit difficult to work with the color channels accordingly, so the other approaches to manipulate the colors in the images are used. This comes with working with colors in the shadows and highlights. Lots of photographers will simply set one to warm colors and the other to cool–but that doesn’t always work. It’s a process of moving things about and figuring how you want to color the midtones, the shadows, the highlights, etc. And sometimes that just requires a bit of playing around.

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Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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