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05/26/2008 02:49:46 PM · #1 |
Hello, i am a wedding photographer and thinking about purchsing Nikon NX software to touch up the photos. Are their other wedding or portrait photographers using this software and would you recommend it and maybe post some before and after photos if not too much trouble.
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05/26/2008 04:21:07 PM · #2 |
I have Capture NX that came with my D300, and it's nowhere near as fast or efficient as Photoshop, but it has some advantages. Namely, if you shoot RAW, it'll apply the same color profile to your RAWs as the Jpeg preview, which is very nice, because Photoshop applies that ACR profile or whatever, which messes up the colors. I use NX every time I want the colors in my final image to more or less match that of the Jpeg preview I see on the back of my camera, and it's worked nicely so far.
The U-point thing is pretty nifty too. You can do most of the basic image editing (like color, contrast, levels, curves, etc) as you can in Photoshop, but it's not as efficient of a workflow.
Those are my thoughts. I'm not a wedding photographer, though. |
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05/26/2008 10:06:35 PM · #3 |
I had tried to use it before (few years ago with D70) and again here recently with the D300. I just don't like it. It is VEEEERRRRRRYYYYY slow. I get the spinning beachball after doing ANYTHING (I have 4GB of RAM).
As for applying the colors and ACR...you can set up ACR to apply a (any) profile to your RAW files (and jpegs too if you want in CS3) that will match whatever you want or desire.
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05/26/2008 10:09:33 PM · #4 |
I dont like NX at all! It is slow, locks my computer up, I have to un-install and re-install it after a few uses. It doesnt do my RAW images very well.
I say use Lightroom or PS if you can afford them. I love lightroom
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05/26/2008 11:17:38 PM · #5 |
You might look at Lightroom.  dwterry does wedding photography and speaks well of it. I don't know that he can tell you much about NX as he shoots Canon but you might PM him to inquire about some of the pros and cons of working with Lightroom.
As for NX, I'd have to agree with some of the prior posters. It can be slow, which is a pain, and I don't think the batch processing is as robust in NX as it is in Lightroom.
Message edited by author 2008-05-26 23:20:32. |
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05/26/2008 11:34:12 PM · #6 |
i do wedding and such events as well,i just got in to lightroom not to long ago
and its great, so many options you can use during raw converstion, i use that first and
take the photo into cs2 if i need touch up fromthere. but as you can see there are tons of softwear
programs for photo editing you just have to find the one that works best for you. |
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05/27/2008 02:52:27 AM · #7 |
| I use Lightroom as well and I love it. Everyone else brings up legitimate points about NX as well. It is kinda slow, even running on my Quad Core Q6600, 4 gb RAM, 8800GT machine. I still find myself using NX every once in a while, though. It's a good piece of software with it's share of flaws. The person who has to uninstall it every once in a while must just be experiencing an odd glitch, that's never happened for me. |
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05/27/2008 07:59:03 PM · #8 |
Most of my comercial work is from weddings also.
My feelings for Nikon capture NX is a mixed feeling. Let me explain. As a batch workflow it is simply impossible to work with because it's not practical nor easy and expedite. But in other hand when converting the raw files to jpegs it does the best job i've ever seen. Probably because it is done to work exacly as your camera thinks. I don't now, but the final files from it, jpeg or tiff are the best.
But I only use it when I want extreme quality, for example large fles for wedding coffe table albums or big posters.
Other wise I use Lightroom and I don't even shoot in raw+jpeg, only in raw. And 90% of my files don't ever enter CS3 because I can do almout everything in LR. But what I really love is Rarshooter premium. I still use i for D70 files. It is the most fast and intuitive program ever made for raw conversio. |
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05/27/2008 08:31:18 PM · #9 |
i did a wedding once in capture nx. won't make that mistake again... (not that i do a lot of weddings, mind you...)
i would like to own the software, though, because u-points were very handy when working on some of the files that i wanted to get the most out of...
so basicially, i'm with  nuno...
here are a couple of examples in my portfolio from that wedding :
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05/28/2008 11:33:20 AM · #10 |
Thanks for the replys everyone, i'll stick with LR.
Thank You |
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05/28/2008 02:26:30 PM · #11 |
| If you haven't already purchased Lightroom, you can get it for $99 with the student discount. You don't personally have to be the student *wink* *wink* |
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