Thank you mate! I really try and put a lot of thought into making my videos concise and hopefully easy to understand as well.

The D300s model foes have a video mode, but to my understanding it is quite garbage in comparison to what modern DSLR mirrorless can produce today. I honestly think you'll be better off with your phone than a D300. If video is a really high priority, if you can swig a Z50 or a Z30 both of those are great cameras with excellent video capability. The D5000 series cameras are worth a look too.

Sorry for slow reply! Yes it does! Its the retouch module. I don't have a full video on the retouch module, but I believe I used it in my I Edit Your Photos Video. There are also other excellent videos on how to use it. It is a very effective module.

Haha yes!!

@@Giles29 I saw that too! I wish they also made a Velvia 50 preset haha. It’s a great 3rd option to play with and see what works. It’s also scene referred. Enjoy mate!

@@larrydavis6556 Thank you so much mate. I really do put a lot of forthought into putting this all together in a simple and concise way so I’m glad it’s landing!

Haha! Your welcome mate! Glad you enjoyed the vid!

Hey mate, reach out to me at [email protected]

Thanks for the kind words and good points mate! Photography is the process of capturing light and I definitely didn’t haha. When you use AI to generate a “photo” and you intentionally want your generation to look “photographic” and not “painterly” using the term “photo” in your prompt seems to be key from my experience, so I’ve gotten use to saying photo, but I see your point, because it’s technically not. So I appreciate you pointing out to be mindful of that.

@@deepskypics As much fun it is to play around with ai, I do either. It is the authenticity of photos that appeals to me. The nice scene you chose is just a statistical reconstruction based on input parameters and training data. It's something fundamentally different than a photo.

@@lxhk3595 there’s something special about going into nature/the world and experiencing the whole experience of photographing isn’t there? AI is fun and so was making this video, but nothing will ever replace that

Intuitively I would use "image" for everything that is not (or not based) on a photograph in its original sense (I'll second your notion that we should not erode the meaning of "photography"). But I'm not a native speaker of English, so "picture" might be adequate, too (I did look around and found different takes on that topic, so I'll stick to my intuition ;-)).

@@c.augustin Haha when I made this video I wasn't admittedly thinking much about the definition of a photograph. I appreciate these comments because its actually thought provoking for me too. On one hand, its always good too challenge our own thinking and be antithetic about things, but that doesn't mean we should alter our 100+ year old definition of what a photograph actually is.

Haha I meant that jokingly. In that, I would be (future tense) banned for editing fake photos haha. Meant to be funny. I tried to be very careful when crafting the title because I didn’t want to actually implicate anybody.

he's just been banished in general

@@luna010 LOLZ

Haha I know! Right after I recorded this.

Thanks mate! Really appreciate the kind words. More coming up.

LOLZ

Ahh yes! Search for Aurelian Pierre’s video on Portra 400 for details, but you can use multiple instances of diffuse or sharpen (blue + red channel) to create the purple halation that comes from analog film You can then of course add film grain as well

Thanks for the feedback mate! With the face cam, I totally get it! And I’ve been trying with and without in my various videos. I think I get better audience retention when I keep it in

Totally! I’m glad you have found value in my videos! DT is a genuine beast of a piece of software that is way to good to be free haha

I think when I started using DT I also felt that the interface needed work, but not that I’ve have grown so comfortable with it, I actually really like the way it’s setup. With your resources to learn it comment, I noticed something kinda similar. There are either good videos on advanced techniques or videos on specific modules, but not a lot of videos on how to put it all together into a cohesive workflow, so my intention has been to fill that gap.

@@deepskypics appreciate your work. But DT has way too many modules and some which I feel do the same job. The problem with open source software is that since they're not after the money, they really don't care about UI/UX. Of course it's not all software, so many great open source software which look good as well. As a professional photographer I don't have the time to learn DT and adapt my workflow to it. LR and Capture One Pro and all other commercial softwares are easy to use. I want to get work done rather than learning how to use the software. It's just clunky to use. Hopefully after all these years they understand that making it usable is as big of a thing as offering good features.

If Darktable isn’t for you, totally cool! Thx for checking out my vids mate. The software is always growing and will always be here for you.

Hey thanks mate!!

Hey thanks mate!! This is quite the comment. I noticed that there was a gap in the content in taking all this knowledge and putting together into a cohesive workflow, so my intention has been to fill that gap

Of course man! Thanks for the kinds words and comments. I hope that as you play and discover more about Darktable, you find that it fulfills your needs! It is a steep learning curve but it becomes more natural with practice. As I delved more into it, I found it’s UI to progressively make more sense

Vibrant can sometimes be more natural if vibrancy exists within the natural scene. Have you ever found that your camera rendered colors less vibrant than you remembered them, it’s one way to communicate that to your viewer. There’s of course the issue with human visual memory but that’s a separate issue

@@deepskypics Vibrant yes ;o) but "more vibrant" not a little excessive for "natural"? Not mentioning the fact here that you never spoke of colour accuracy in the video whether in natural or artificial scenes, even in your comparison of CCD and CMOS sensors. To answer your question, the tendency of most cameras, a perfect heritage to what already happened with film (remember Fuji's Velvia), is to produce JPG images with increased saturation and contrast for "pop", (artificial) "impact." Badly-processed film, or old film or film that had been exposed to excessive heat could actually render colours less vibrant than what they were in front of the camera. Fortunately this is a thing of the past with digital cameras. As a result the first thing I have been doing for years with most new cameras (except the Leica M240 (not the case with the Qs, M10s and M11s whose saturation is very slightly increased, and Hasselblad) is to set saturation and contrast of JPGs down at -1. So far I have never used a camera that, out of the box with its default settings, has given me a less "vibrant" image than "the reality of the scene" in front of the lens. The good thing with digital cameras is that even if someone's memory is "an issue," i.e. failing, it is easy to check the back of one's camera just after taking the image and get some idea. It is also always easy to check one's camera and its colour rendition at home, with colourful items or even better, a colour chart, and compare. No memory needed. And by the way what about "organic colours"? How do you define that? Now, as far as my photographing is concerned I just wish for a camera that gives me accurate colours then I can always modify them, boost them either with a polarising filter for instance (good for increasing saturation and contrast), or in an image-processing software. The opposite, getting accurate colours ("accurate" in comparison to what they were "in the natural world") from images whose saturation and contrast have been massaged one notch up by the camera's software can be problematic, all the more so, as you pointed out, if one completely relies on one's memory... which is an issue indeed. So I think the right question should be which sensor / camera renders colours the more / most accurately This would actually speak of the precision and excellence of the colour science at play.

Of course man! Darktable is very daunting at first! But, I suspect it will get more natural and easy with time. I found it’s UI to make more and more sense as I started to use it more. It’s a really powerful tool and way to good to be free, but it is haha. Happy editing!

I use C1Pro as well. Just so superior than LR. Darktable's UI/UX is just a mess. That's a huge drawback of many open source software. Even C1Pro has gone subscription route but at least they offer a full purchase. For my work, it's more than enough and not every new feature is required. I would however like them to just release updates to read newer camera support so even if I am using an older version of C1, I can continue using it with newer cameras.

Thanks mate! The link is finicky - try a few different browsers. Also try incognito and Chrome. I was able to get it to work after trying a few

@@deepskypics ohhh I see! Thanks for the advice 😊 will try that!

You studied under Ansel Adams! Whoa! So cool! What was he like? I think by “Marketable” you mean Darktable correct? The biggest limitations (or benefits depending on how you look at it) Darktable has is the lack of internal camera profiles and AI tools. Thanks for watching mate!

Hey thanks mate!! Awkward much better than boring on YT haha.

Yup, CCDs are totally better for portraiture. Something to do with how they treat color gradients, almost dithering them in a way with grain, giving a kind of textured softness to skin while preserving contrasty detail where it counts. And I even found that its almost the older the CCD the better, with sweet spot somewhere in 2006-2009 crop of chips.

Hey mate! You have to go into your DT preferences (cog wheel button) and change the default folder for the LUTs to where you out all your LUTs. It should work then!

@@deepskypicsHi, thanks for your reply. I have tried that but still the same problem & I have tried a few different directories. Its strange

This is like one of the best comments I have ever received on YT. Hahaha. Thanks mate!

@@deepskypics Well this is one of the best darktable vids so well deserved. I'm new to darktable and this video helps INCREDIBLY with the harsh learning curve .

Haha! That’s hilarious! Tagawa in Cetennial, CO?