On 2018-11-20 18:54, Jozef Dassen wrote:
Hello,
Hi,
For the third time I am making an attempt to convert to darktable........
I am a longtime Capture One user (since version 5) and have tens of
thousands of images processed in CO.
Reprocessing them in darktable is not an option obviously.
Both darktable and Capture One are excellent Raw Processors but both
are lousy Catalogs (for my needs).
I do not want to go into a catalog discussion in this email. I will
probably come back to that seperately.
I now have built my own image catalog that can take processed images
from either darktable or CO and handles them equally.
My catalog provides a unified view with all the necessary metadata for
filtering, wherever the image comes from.
So that is why I would now like to switch to darktable. I am a
longtime Unix user and prefer Linux over Windows. Capture One is the
only reason I still have Windows.
If Capture One would move to Linux, I would stay with them, but they
are not interested in Linux (I have been asking for years).
Never tried Capture One - looked on the web site and looks like a
capable program. But so is Adobe Light room. These work well in Windows.
But again... I am managing on 7 year old computer under Linux and DT. My
computer would not be able to lift Windows comfortably with RAW
processing on top. Looks like I am gonna stay with Linux / DT.
So now that I am (almost) ready to switch, I am still encountering
some problems. I would like to ask how other users approach this problem:
I'll put comments in line...
When I come back from a trip I usually have a thousand or more pictures.
Me too - about 4000 - 5000 usually (vacations / family photos)
I process them by subject/location/date usually in batches of 200-300.
In Capture One I import them and run them though an Auto Adjust
process that adjusts Exposure, Levels and HDR, as a first pass before
selecting images for further processing.
(For one of my cameras I also run auto whitebalance).
CO does a good job in Auto Adjust. But I can find no similar
functionality in darktable.
As far as I can see every image needs to be adjusted (or at least
checked) individually.
For me the most important modules would be Exposure and Levels.
I use exposure mainly. Levels - rarely.
These tools have auto functionality which is OK when used on each
image directly, but when using it in a style, it does not do an auto
adjust at all.
It seems to copy the adjustments applied from when the style was
created. Very counter-intuitive !!
My question: how do other users apply basic corrections when importing
large number of images ??
Large amount of images - usually are associated with more than one that
is taken in the same (or almost the same) condition. I usually dump
everything in one folder (after renaming them to some meaningful - to me
- name). After that - I work through the images. The groups (if any) are
the related by location. I'd mark all that are being considered with a
color label. If an image is mis focused, bad pose etc - it is discarded
right away - rejected (I don't process it). If I am in between for
several images - I develop one and then transfer to the complete series
of images that are being considered by copy / paste the stack.
My "DT style" is very simplistic and simply applies demosaic, lens
correction, shadows and highlights (in the default).
After that is a bit more tunning (white balance, exposure - some times I
use the picker others I just go by histograms / warning tones on the
image). There is automatic level on the exposure (and I've seen some
users are very successful with it). For some reason - I mostly end up
with the manual.
There are other add on styles - for example - gradient with dithering,
or denoise, some times just presets for modules (like base curve -
multiple exposures). Usually I apply these as addition to what I
initially process. The modules that I use constantly have hot keys
associated with them. I should say however - I don't treat my work as a
"production". It is a hobby.
It works for me.... hope this helps...
Regards, Jozef Dassen
Regards, B
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