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How do you deal with X3F files ?

Started Nov 3, 2021 | Questions thread
Scottelly
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Re: How do you deal with X3F files ?

joe173 wrote:

I found when I upgraded my machine with a beefier system, SPP worked so much better. You really need to try SPP on a very modern fast machine with loads of RAM. Then see if you can use it. Before, it took ages to process files. Now it is relatively quick. Also, take fewer photos, but make them higher quality. Delete the marginal ones. Ask yourself, what makes this photo special? Will I want to look at this 5 years from now? Most photos are not that special unless you are using it in a studio, etc.

I use graduated filters to cut down on the processing. Also, batch process like photos. Do a custom white balance. These things cut down on the fiddling in SPP.

I find every photo requires its own adjustments. For me, batch processing is really not practical. I shoot such a wide variety of subjects in the same day - even in the same hour - that my white balance is all over the place. For example, I remember one day I was at a beach in Washington, and I shot the roots of a log in shadow, then some rocks on the ground in sunlight, and then some birds in the sky above me, followed finally by close-ups of weathered wood in sunlight. Some of these you can see in my gallery from this trip I'm on here:

https://www.bigprintphotos.com/AcrossAmerica

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