The Capture One community is requesting Phase One to develop a dehaze tool.Īs great as the Capture One HDR tool is, it’s not true HDR photography or post-processing.Īnd the HDR tool name is a bit confusing for photographers new to HDR. Consequently, there is quite a bit of haze in the atmosphere resulting in the image appearing soft.Īt the time of writing this, Capture One Pro 20 doesn’t have a dehaze tool. I should mention that farmers in the area were burning crops. But I’m only demonstrating the HDR tool here. Of course, I could make more adjustments to the image and make it pop by using other tools. The sky and the mountains look much more appealing. Then I increased the shadow and black to 45 each. I decided to decrease the highlight and white to -50 and -30 respectively. The shadows still looked too dark and I thought more could be done to make the sun look better. In this case it reduced the highlight to -1 and increased the shadow to 45, which wasn’t good enough. The tool analyzed the image’s dynamic range and adjusted it. I used the Capture One HDR tool and first clicked on its automatic setting, which looks like a wand. The highlights around the sun need some work done. The main problem with this image is that the shadows are too dark. The below image was photographed in El Penon, Colombia. The wind is strong and shaking your tripod.Some countries do not allow tripods to pass through airport carry-on security screening.It’s difficult to carry your tripod with you on long journeys.Scenarios where it’s difficult to capture bracketed photos: It’s not always easy to photograph three or more aligned bracketed photos in dynamic scenes. I usually take a set of 3 bracketed photos. The tool is intended for single-exposure images when capturing a set of bracketed photos wasn’t possible.īracketed photos are aligned images taken at different f-stops or exposures: usually -1, 0 +1, or -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. Sometimes clipping is involved in the photographed image file. The HDR or high-dynamic-range tool is to help photographers improve the dynamic range of images that are too bright or too dark.īy dynamic, I mean where there is a lot of bright and dark areas in front of the camera lens. I’ll explain more about how the Photomatix plugin works but first let’s take a look at the HDR tool found in the exposure tab of Capture One.

Photomatix trial