Photography and the Art of Seeing

 DxO FilmPack 8 What is FilmPack 8 you may ask ? ... FilmPack 8 is a feature packed film emulation application with over 300 scientifically created presets, which are completely editable, from original film stocks that include analog response curves, grain structures and tonal behavior making these profiles & presets some of the best on the market today. If you have never shot film, all of these film looks will be new to you, however, if you started your photographic journey shooting film, you should recognize some of these preset names right away. You may event notice a few that you completely forgot existed back in your film days. Everyone’s reasons for using any of these presets can vary from trying to recreate a look and feel you used before digital to attempting to create a unique style for your photographs. It’s all possible with what DxO has accomplished with their FilmPack application. Not only can you choose from one of their over 300 presets, you can edit/modify them ...

 Making Selective Edits with DxO PureRAW 5 - ISO 11,400 Click on the images to enlarge them to better see the results. Above is the before image and below is the after using DxO PureRAW 5 with selective masking edits. This is how the Masking works; when we start out in PureRAW 5 in the Corrections Panel, we choose a Process method and in this case DeepPRIME XD2s with the Luminance and Force details set to 40 and 0 respectively. This cleans up our image quite well and some may say too well, too smooth, but I am leaving it like this for this tutorial. So the original image is very noisy and the initial processing gets rid of all the noise but may have gone too far and the image looks synthetic as you can see below. The faces are too smooth. The jersey's are too smooth and the football is lacking detail. This is where masking comes in. Step by Step - Starting in the Corrections Panel - Note all of the settings I am using here. When we are in the Masking Panel, by default, our cursor i...