Totally agree. I was using Apple's Aperture until development stopped in 2014 or so. Back then I compared Capture One and Lightroom for raw processing and went with Capture One. Right out of the box I got a better starting point to work. The image was just cleaner and had more detail. I think one of the keys is the effort Capture One puts into creating profiles for the various cameras and lenses. Fast forward to today and their color science is not available on the iPad, including tethering. All of that said, I still use Lightroom in my workflow! Once I export my JPGs and TIFs from Capture One, I import them into Lightroom. Now I have all of my finished photos backed-up and on all of my devices.
I just learned about how the brightness slider works recently after having avoided it for so long, and honestly it has made editing portraits to much easier, especially with the way I normally underexpose to preserve highlights details.
Also, Capture One is REALLY GREAT at recovering highlight data, as long as they're not completely blown out. There is so much more detail in the highlights than the shadows. Consider experimenting with proper, over-, and under-exposure. Bracketing the same frame about 1-stop out should do the trick, and then just decide which works best for your work. Maybe you have already and that's what you've come to, but I'm all for continuous experimentation.
Anthony Morganti has a TH-cam video entitled “The Hidden Midtone Slider in Lightroom” where he uses the Color Grading-Midtones-Luminance slider effectively the same way. I’m sure there’s nuances between these tools, but I don’t know what it is. I started adjusting mid tones this way in the equivalent Capture One Color Balance tool but didn’t know how it compared to the brightness slider.
I'm using LR since the beginning of my photo journey, well I guess I will try the industry standard, something did feel missing from LR, and just from this video it seems it's more than just Brightness slider
@@StudioBuilder Yes I did try it, and for beauty photography, and generally edits for people without lots of masking it's way superior to Photoshop, cause sliders are in order, and simply coming down you have photo ready in like 4 minutes with hiding some skin imperfections even. But I still prefer LR for photos I plan on using lots of masking, so actually I should have both xD Different tool for different photos
@@Deruzejaku I agree. I've posted a feature request on the C1 forums asking for some advanced masking updates. I hope those are coming in C1 23 that's coming out in a month. There haven't been any betas in a while so I have no idea what to expect from the coming update.
So even though Lightroom does not have a brightness slider it does have a luminance slider, which does what the brightness slider does in capture one. I still prefer capture one for many reasons but you can do the same in Lightroom...
@@StudioBuilder okay. I don’t use Lightroom but a video I saw said that it controlled midtones while preserving highlights or shadows so seemed similar to me?
Thank you for the video. Such a simple explanation. It was extremely easy to clarify what I have vaguely understood over the years.
Totally agree. I was using Apple's Aperture until development stopped in 2014 or so. Back then I compared Capture One and Lightroom for raw processing and went with Capture One. Right out of the box I got a better starting point to work. The image was just cleaner and had more detail. I think one of the keys is the effort Capture One puts into creating profiles for the various cameras and lenses. Fast forward to today and their color science is not available on the iPad, including tethering. All of that said, I still use Lightroom in my workflow! Once I export my JPGs and TIFs from Capture One, I import them into Lightroom. Now I have all of my finished photos backed-up and on all of my devices.
I just learned about how the brightness slider works recently after having avoided it for so long, and honestly it has made editing portraits to much easier, especially with the way I normally underexpose to preserve highlights details.
Also, Capture One is REALLY GREAT at recovering highlight data, as long as they're not completely blown out. There is so much more detail in the highlights than the shadows. Consider experimenting with proper, over-, and under-exposure. Bracketing the same frame about 1-stop out should do the trick, and then just decide which works best for your work. Maybe you have already and that's what you've come to, but I'm all for continuous experimentation.
Capture One Team, hell yeah!
I'm curious about the difference between the "brightness" slider and the "midtones" slider hidden under color balance. I recently just discovered it.
Color Balance is for color grading images.
Anthony Morganti has a TH-cam video entitled “The Hidden Midtone Slider in Lightroom” where he uses the Color Grading-Midtones-Luminance slider effectively the same way. I’m sure there’s nuances between these tools, but I don’t know what it is. I started adjusting mid tones this way in the equivalent Capture One Color Balance tool but didn’t know how it compared to the brightness slider.
great! I honestly feel ashamed for not knowing this sooner...
Never any shame in learning new things!
I'm using LR since the beginning of my photo journey, well I guess I will try the industry standard, something did feel missing from LR, and just from this video it seems it's more than just Brightness slider
Have you tried Capture One yet?
@@StudioBuilder Yes I did try it, and for beauty photography, and generally edits for people without lots of masking it's way superior to Photoshop, cause sliders are in order, and simply coming down you have photo ready in like 4 minutes with hiding some skin imperfections even. But I still prefer LR for photos I plan on using lots of masking, so actually I should have both xD Different tool for different photos
@@Deruzejaku I agree. I've posted a feature request on the C1 forums asking for some advanced masking updates. I hope those are coming in C1 23 that's coming out in a month. There haven't been any betas in a while so I have no idea what to expect from the coming update.
LR did have a have a Brightness slider a few years ago, Then some smart person realized since it actually was really useful it should be taken out.
Notably, it also didn't behave like this.
now i know, why the underexposed pictures looked so bad when i tried to make them brighter with brightness. i should've used exposure in premiere
So even though Lightroom does not have a brightness slider it does have a luminance slider, which does what the brightness slider does in capture one. I still prefer capture one for many reasons but you can do the same in Lightroom...
Took a quick look today and it doesn't seem to be the same at all. I'll do a more in depth comparison and probably make a video about it.
@@StudioBuilder okay. I don’t use Lightroom but a video I saw said that it controlled midtones while preserving highlights or shadows so seemed similar to me?