“Do you know, polarisers [circular polarisers] only work in one direction,” clearly a myth propagated by someone whose education in the arts had kept them away from even basic physics.

However, it’s true. What’s more if you hold a circular polariser up to a mirror, just a few inches from your eye, it’s clear the correct way round and dark the wrong way round. Me doing this below:

Looking into a mirror with the polariser the correct way round – clear	Looking into a mirror with the polariser the wrong way round – dark.

This doesn’t happen with a linear polariser which works exactly the same either way round. What’s going on?

Explanation below.

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Hours 800 to 2,200

Workflow: Capture One, Lightroom and Photoshop

The objective of this post is to create and document a workflow that makes better use of the respective strengths of Capture One Pro, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CC, and to meet my developing requirements:

1. File management to meet the requirements of FIAP accredited Salons
2. Shooting tethered in the field
3. Managing images shot on holiday or otherwise away from home.

Capture One Pro has the concept of Sessions which are great for managing discrete projects.  In my opinion better than anything Adobe has in this area.  However, for overall file management, Lightroom Classic CC is a clear winner (even PhaseOne admit that Capture One Catalogs are not quite there yet).  Photoshop remains the top choice for final editing.

This post covers both:

• how I integrate the three systems above
• the star and colour coding systems I use to select and categorise images.

As usual, if you have any comments or suggestions, please post them in the Comments box below or contact me through your favourite social media channel, listed to the right.  Thank you.

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