Upgrading your photographic workflow

Back in February, DxO sent me a beta version of their PureRaw4 software to test drive ahead of the official launch in March. So, having used version 3 for years, I was keen to incorporate the upgrade into my workflow. I’ve pushed it to the limit with a high-speed, low-light photo of a Mute Swan landing on a lake. This is the final result, below you can read how I got there from a very noisy RAW file straight out of the camera. This is the final denoised and processed image – Mute Swan Landing The bottom line is that PureRaw4 does an excellent job of basically knocking out noise to the equivalent of about three whole stops of ISO, fixing various aberrations inherent in one’s camera-lens combinations, and also applying a degree of subtle sharpening. I wrote a short summary around the time of their official launch when they emerged from beta testing. Preview of a RAW file straight out of the camera. Fast shutter (1/16000s) and so high ISO (6400). Zooming in on the Mute Swan’s head shows how noisy the original was. My photography has various focal points – birds (flying and perched) snapped with a Sigma 150-600 on a Canon R7 and macro photos of moths, with a 90mm Tamron 1:1 lens, and commonly focus stacked. The focus-stacked output from the camera is JPEG, so inaccessible to PureRaw4 which requires a RAW file. But, the bird photos and landscapes, events, and architectural photography is always shot in RAW. So, a perfect fit for PureRaw4. This image h...
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