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The truth about raw processors: which one actually performs best for real-world photography? (continued)

Terry A. McDonald – www.luxBorealis.com
Framed Print Resolution (4800x3600px or 17.3mp)
To best approximate viewing distance for actual prints, these larger les were evaluated on-screen at 50%. Again, judging at 100% is simply not realistic as only photographers and internet pixel-peepers, not buyers, view prints this close.
Despite the larger size (17mp vs 11mp), the results of these comparisons closely mirror the results of the previous files, but as expected, the fine differences start to reveal themselves.
Once again, the LrEnhNR and DxO versions are the best, but not my far. The ON1 and Topaz versions are equally good, but each suffers as they did previously from colour shift and artefacts respectively. I’d like to work out these problems as the sharpness and three-dimensionality are excellent.

High ISO Photos
The last two of the six photos I examined were shot at very high ISOs of 6400 and 12800. I now know that my previous scepticism is unwarranted and I’m proven wrong, again—t...

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Terry McDonald is an artist, author and educator, working in fine art landscape and nature photography. He approaches photography as both an art and a craft: a solid grounding in technique frees him to explore a variety of visual styles. As a photographer his goal seems simple enough: capture and recreate the inherent art in nature. However, nature is not always so accommodating! Although Terry grew up and has lived most his life in Canada, he has lived, worked and photographed overseas for 10 years in Tanzania, Germany and, more recently, England. Additional travel destinations have included much of western Europe, across Canada to two of three coats, South Africa, south Florida, the Galápagos and Iceland. Terry lives with his family in Guelph, Ontario, his home base for hiking, backcountry canoeing and nordic skiing. When time permits, he offers classroom and field workshops throughout the year. Terry’s work has been featured in Photo Life and Light & Landscape and is in private collections on three continents. His work may be viewed at luxBorealis.com or at his luxBorealis Flickr account.
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