My choice is Capture One Pro as you probably remember from our PM discussions. I convert the RAW file in COP to 16 bit TIFF and then do a few minor tweaks if required in Photoshop. Like you, I do most of (90+%) of my processing in the RAW converter.
However, when dealing with landscape work, I'd be just as comfortable using Capture One to do the raw conversion. I don't bother with Lightroom - for me it's far too limited. Then I'll make tweaks and changes, export to TIF, and it's photoshop from there on. I tend to look at things as "match the tool to the task" instead of some emotional brand allegiance, but to be honest, these days, since speed is not required in my workflow, I've chosen Capture NX-D as my raw converter because it fully and completely honors the custom picture controls I set up in the camera - this way if I show a model the back of the camera to show an image, that's pretty much how it's going to look when I bring it up in NX-D, since that converter best honors Nikons instruction set. Personally, while I don't do post-for-hire any longer, when I did, I had a couple of pieces of software lying around - generally a copy of Adobe ACR, even though it's not my favorite, a copy of Capture One, and since I'm a Nikon shooter, a copy of NX-2 back then and NX-D now. The cooking analogy is quite a good one, Mike. Thus, anyone who is serious about quality generally knows their raw conversion process very well and tries to get the file most of the way "there" in that process, creating a TIFF that then can go under some fine tuning (and/or retouching that's best done in photoshop) to get to the "final" state. You can of course do other things, but it's best you do some of them at the time of raw conversion. You can of course, in photoshop or similar image editing programs, perform modifications to that data, but because the instruction set is now baked in, you don't have the same amount of flexibility. Lots of flexibility.Ī TIFF file is a meal - the ingredients have been cooked, The cake is baked. Or lens corrections (or turning those off), so on and so forth. That might be things like the white balance, or the tone curve (contrast, mid tone contrast), and it might include things like how much saturation. During the raw conversion process, *you* can decide to accept the default instruction set that was used to create the preview image on the back of your screen, OR you can decide to modify those instructions. The meal isn't made yet with the RAW file. The instruction set, however, is just that - a set of instructions.
You've got a set of ingredients, and instructions on how to use those to create a dish that you present to your guests.Ī RAW file is the ingredients and the instruction set that your chosen settings on the camera used.
As a guy who has been paid to do post processing for others, I'll add my 2 cents in the middle of all of this if I might, just for an added data point:
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