Capture One Pro Fujifilm. Capture One delivers better, faster, and more creative control. New features includes advanced masking functionality, an even more efficient and intuitive user experience, plug-in compatibility, and much more.
Tethered Shooting: When shooting tethered, I need speed and reliability. Capture One beat Lightroom every time on these parameters. The ingest speed for the images are lag-less which means I have time to double check the images and make up-to-date tweaks to the lighting and camera controls whilst shooting. I, I'm trying my new X-H1 to get to do tethered shooting using Capture One Fuji Pro. I can get live view, but in live view both the C1 controls AND the camera controls become unresponsive. I have to pause Live View, then all the C1 controls become available and the camera is responsive again. Basically, live view is useless this way. Simple tethered shooting with Lightroom. The quickest and arguably the easiest way to start tethered shooting is by using Adobe Lightroom’s Tethered Capture feature. Follow these steps to set it up: Step 1 – Connect the camera to the laptop. Connect your DSLR to your laptop with a USB cable. Then turn the camera on. 03:25 - Establishing a secure connection07:28 - Setting up a Session for tethered capture11:20 - Setting up capture naming13:40 - Controlling your ca.
Impressed by those fancy videos of photographers shooting and seeing the shots in real time on their computer? It’s called tethered shooting, and you can do it too with minimal equipment and setup. This is meant to be a short guide to help you do just that!
Capture One Tethering Software
Why Shoot Tethered?
If you’re reading this post, you may already be convinced about the benefits, or shooting tethered. If that’s the case, you can skip ahead to the next section.
If, on the other hand, you’re not sure if shooting tethered is worth the extra expenses and setup, here are a few things that shooting tethered can do for you:
- Instant feedback for you as a photographer to really see the images and be able to tell if the lighting, posing or any other aspect needs tweaking.
- Allows clients or the rest of the team to also see the pictures as they are shot. This could help a makeup artist see areas of the makeup that would need some touch-ups, for example.
- No need to download your photos from a memory card after the shoot, they’ll already be uploaded where they need to be.
- You can set things up so that a backup of your shots gets created on the fly to a separated hard drive. I’ll cover doing this in a different post.
- You can apply presets and edits, and have those automatically applied to subsequent shots, so that you see the shots as close to the final look you’re looking for as possible.
- Your model will also be able to see the shots in real time and get a better idea for the feel/mood of the images as well as instant feedback about whether the posing is working or needs some tweaking.
For me personally, when shooting in studio, I now find that shooting tethered is a must and helps both me and the model get at a great shot much faster. The only downside really is the extra cable that runs between the camera and computer, but that’s something that I quickly got used to.
What You’ll Need
You’ll likely need one or two additional pieces of equipment in order to shoot tethered, at a minimum. But don’t worry, it won’t set you off by too much.
The most popular supplier of the gear you’ll need is called Tether Tools, and that’s the company I recommend buying from for your tethering needs.
The single most important piece of equipment you’ll need is a tethering cable. Your camera most likely came with one, but it’ll most likely be short and not as high-quality as a cable you’d get from a company like Tether Tools.
Tethered Shooting Capture One Express
For your 1st tethering cable, I recommend you get the starter kit from Tether Tools. The page will guide you through choosing the right cable for your specific camera, and on top of the cable you’ll also get some useful extras like cable ties, and jerk stoppers which help prevent strain on the connectors or accidentally pulling the cable out.
You’ll see in videos that many photographers use the orange cable, and the reason for this is so that it’s easy to see and that people are less prone to trip in the cable.
Tether Boost
The next piece you might need is something like the TetherBoost from Tether Tools. If you start off without it and find that your tethered connection gets lost for no apparent reason, or you struggle to get a connection in the first place, the TetherBoost should fix those issues!
What happens is that on many computers today the USB is slightly underpowered and the strength of the signal gets lost along the way. This is especially true when you start shooting with longer tethering cables.
So in summary, you’ll need:
- A good high-quality tethering cable (15 feet is ideal to start) with connections that match your specific camera and computer/laptop. If you go with a starter kit, you’ll get the cable and some helpful extras with it.
- A TetherBoost if you find that you have connectivity or lost signal issues.
Shooting Tethered Into Lightroom
Just connect you tethering cable to your camera and your computer, and in Lightroom head over to File > Tethered Capture > Start Tethered Capture…
Once you set the settings for file naming and where the captures should go, click Ok and Lightroom will automatically detect your camera and you’ll see a new widget appear on screen that shows your camera settings and allows you to trigger a shot. From that widget, you can also specify develop settings to apply automatically to captures.
And now you can start shooting and you’ll see your shots appear automatically inside of Lightroom!
Shooting Tethered Into Capture One
Capture One has been built with tethered shooting in mind, so it’s naturally very easy to start shooting tethered without any special setup. Just plug the tethering cable to your computer and camera, power-on your camera, and head over to the Capture tab. You’ll see a camera panel on there and your camera make, model and current settings should automatically appear:
You can now start shooting and you’ll automatically see the shots appear in Capture One. Under that same camera panel, you even have a button to trigger a shot directly from Capture One, which can be useful especially with product photography.
By default, the edits applied to the last shot will be automatically applied to the next shots. This is one of the handiest features and allows to create adjustments on the fly and see it on all the shots. You can change the behavior under the Next Capture Adjustments tool from the Capture tab.
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Shooting tethered to a laptop enables the photographer to see what they are shooting in the full resolution of the laptop screen as they are shooting it.
If you have to get it right, there and then, tethered shooting provides the best opportunity for checking that the images are at the standard required.
Context of this Post
Just over a year ago (April 2019) I published “Second Revision: Workflow at 2,000 Hours” which touched upon Shooting tethered but said little more than Capture One is great at this and is the perfect partner for Sony cameras.
In the last year, particularly the last few months, I have been shooting tethered more regularly. This post aims to flesh out the details of how I work in practice, including some of the tips I’ve picked up along the way.
Equipment Used
The only additional bit of equipment actually required is a tether cable. Although it’s just a wire, quality does seem to be important. The wire that came with my camera just didn’t work, and the more expensive bit of wire from TetherTools has worked faultlessly.
Creating a New Session
New Session
A session is Capture One’s way of grouping together a set of images for a particular project.
Physically on the computer’s disk, a session manifests as a new folder containing, by default, the following sub-folders:
- Capture – where the images are initially stored following transfer from the camera’s memory card. However, when shooting tethered they are moved here as soon as they are shot; usually directly from the buffer, without ever being stored on the memory card.
- Selects – place for holding the “Keepers”
- Output – destination folder of derivative files such as JPEGs, TIFFs, etc.
- Trash – deleted files.
Template
I have defined a template called “Two shots” (when/ if I ever need it I’ll also create, three, four, five shots) which automatically sets up the sessions characteristics as defined in this section.
Capture Sub-folders and Favourites
The first of the session characteristics is sub-folders within the standard Capture folder created as:
- Lighting Test
- Shot 1
- Shot 2
and sets the initial capture as the Lighting Test. I can use the Mac’s Finder to change the name of “Shot 1” and “Shot 2” to something more appropriate, and this is immediately reflected in Capture One.
Within Capture One the template also creates Session Favourites which map directly to the sub-folders within the Capture folder.
The camera icon on the right shows the folder into which the next shot will be stored. (Set initially to Lighting Test).
Next Capture Name
To ensure that images are forever associated with this project, I use the Next Capture Name tab to assign file names of the format:
<Session Name>_<Sub-Folder Name>_Increment.ARW
(File extensions just match the camera: “ARW” is the extension for a Sony RAW file, “iiq”, as shown below, is for a PhaseOne RAW file, and it’s different again for Canon, Nikon, etc.).
Again this is set up automatically by my “Two Shot” template. Templates really are super useful and easy to use.
Test Shots
Using my Two Shot template above, capture one starts by putting all images captured into the “Lighting Test” sub-folder. This enables me to keep test images separate from the main shoot.
Composition and Shooting (featuring CapturePilot)
The following assumes that the connected camera is mounted on a tripod.
The live view feature of Capture One Pro transmits the camera’s live view to the laptop. It is easier to consider the merits of a composition when looking at a full size display, and seeing the image as a the end viewer will.
The live view continues to work when the camera is zooming with a view to checking focus on a 1:1 basis. This is often easier to see on a full laptop display.
Capture Pilot is an ap running on a smartphone (or over the web) that enables various functions of Capture One to be operated remotely including Live View and firing shots. The laptop and phone need to be connected to the same wireless network.
Main use I have found for CapturePilot is flexibility in watching live view from any angle/location when moving elements in the shot.
Although I haven’t tried it, the functionality exists for a remote client to rank shots as the shoot is taking place.
Initial Review
Live view displays the image without strobe or flash lighting. When we take the shot, firing artificial light, we get the image immediately transmitted to the laptop for review. We can check:
- Lighting, including overall exposure level and areas of concentration – in theory this should be fine because of the earlier test shots. However, in practice, it rarely is.
- Depth of focus
- Overall feel of the shot.
The goal of tethered capture is to ensure that one has the required shots to the required standard, i.e., a “winning” 3-star image for every shot required. As I’m shooting I assign a star rating to the image as follows:
- 0 – unranked
- 1 – Delete (probably)
- 2 – Worthy of further consideration
- 3 – Definite keeper.
When I think I may have finished with a particular shot, I review the unranked (zero star) images moving to one or two stars; then all the two star images, moving to one or three star, to ensure that I have at least one “Keeper”.
The Two Shot template automatically sets up the above Albums.
Transfer to Main Computer
This is exactly as stated in the ” “:
- Copy the session folder from the Laptop’s “Pictures” directory to a portable external disk
- Copy this session folder from the external drive to the Pictures directory of the main computer
- From Capture One on main, desktop computer:
- Menu: File -> Open
- navigate to the newly created folder under Pictures on the C: drive
- select the session file as below.
Then the session is just as though it had been shot on the main computer. Clean and easy – job done.
Facebook download for macbook pro. Notes:
- Capture One 20 Live: “Improve Your Tethered Workflow” – one of the best out of an excellent series; with chapter marks so that you can go directly to the section required.