Video: Capture One Quick Edit: US Capitol Building - Fixing a Dull Photo
This is the first video of a new series called “Quick Edits”. In this video, follow along as I edit a photo of the US Capitol Building in Capture One Pro. I wanted to try doing super short screencasts of editing just one photo. I know people often don’t have that much time to watch a longer video and so I wanted to keep them to 5 minutes or less. I often find that I learn the most just by watching what others do, and so that’s what this is.
For this video, I am re-editing some old photos from my archives. I had taken this photo years ago while on a trip to the USA. We herein Washington DC and it was an overcast Sunday. A previous version I had made from this photo in Lightroom and Photoshop was pretty good, but a little overcooked, so I wanted to try again, and this time I am using Capture One. The photo itself looks pretty bad to start with, being quite flat and dull, but I wanted to make it more interesting and fix some of the issues.
Here’s the final photo:
If you like this idea of quick edits, let me know in the comments and I will do them more often.
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