Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

That sounds like a good and sensible work flow to me. After you mentioned "DxO 11" to me, I searched for it and downloaded it yesterday. It's great that DxO and LR now work so well together. I think that LR, DxO, and PS each have their individual strengths. It's great that we are able to take advantage of them all by jumping between them. Thank you for explaining your work flow and informing me that DxO 11 is out. They made some significant improvements with this latest improvements.

BTW, I have noticed that sometimes I unexpectedly get the "Ambiguity" message from DxO during export. I found if I go into "Manage DxO modules" and delete my module then download load it again, it clears up the problem. I think DxO must improve their modules now and then, and this is their way of making us update to the latest version.

One of my favorite lens (and I have MANY) is an old Minolta 35~70mm f/4 film lens with a manual macro mode. I use it on my Sony camera bodies. This lens is so sharp that I find no real need for a correcting module! You can buy this lens all day long on eBay for $20! A real bargain for Sony users. I wish DxO provided a correction module for this old lens, but because DxO is part of my work flow I still sometimes pass images taken with this lens through DxO.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

I have that great lens also. Love it. Even with images of stars, there is not much distortion to deal with at all. Most lenses get worse and worse as you move to the corners, but this one hangs in there quite well.

jackpinoh Loc: Kettering, OH 45419

Beautiful photo (gondola/mountains) and great job processing. Where was the photo taken?

KennyMac Loc: Lynchburg, VA

DXO tutorials are readily available for any of the DXO products. Below is link to those that use LR with DXO Optics Pro workflow. Explains options and why you would use the different methods of exporting. I was confused also when I upgraded to Pro 11. After you export back to LR, look at your file folder and you will find a sidecar for the DNG out of Optics Pro.

http://www.dxo.com/us/photography/community/tutorials/optimizing-your-dxo-opticspro-10-and-lightroom-workflow

Ken

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

https://www.banff.com/banff-tours/banff-gondola/

This was taken on the down the gondola ride in Banff Canada.

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

It's been moved to the "Photo Gallery" section. I don't know way I ever try to post anything elsewhere. It seems anything I post ends up here anyway. I thought we were talking about about processing work flow but, what do I know?! LOL

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

I agree. Moving things is arbitrary and frequently inane, especially taking this post to the photo gallery. Perhaps hedgehogs and large flightless birds aren't quite as smart as we would like to think!

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

Hi Peter, long time since we corresponded. I'm sure you are watching to see if Sony offers us an A99 replacement next month.

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I'm thinking of the wrong "Peter". The one I was thinking of lived in England.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Hi Dave,

I try to pay attention, and keep abreast of new vendor introductions. It will be very interesting to see what Sony does, as with Canon, Nikon, Pentax and others.

Mostly, I'm still involved in work related technology. Machine and Deep learning keeps me pretty busy right now, which is fascinating but complex.

However, I would be interested in your thoughts when Sony drops a new camera.

Thanks

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Oops, perhaps I responded too quickly. I did live in England - was born there - but have been in the US since 1991. Anyhow, take good care!

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Well done Dave.

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

There is more than one "Peter" on UHH who is from England. I was thinking of Peekayoh. He is a big Sony user and like me has a lot invested in Sony full frame lenses. He has given me some very useful information.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

Back to the original subject, Dave; In your first set of photos, I can straighten out photos just fine that are even worse, in lightroom with no problem. I do it all of the time. Lol. I do not have any programs such as DxO. I am glad you are liking it.

Tom

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

If it is just straightening, Lightroom is fine. If it needs perspective adjustment, DxO Viewpoint can do things that Lightroom cannot. Refer to: http://www.dxo.com/us/photography/photo-software/dxo-viewpoint/features

Wonderful tool when out shooting with a wide angle lens.

Viewpoint works thru DxO Optics and is not a stand-alone program.

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

You beat me to it. I was about respond with the same remarks. I just returned from a vacation to the Canadian Rockies where I was using a Sony 11~18mm f/4 lens a lot! I also have 12~24mm made by Sigma for my full frame camera. The Sigma lens would be practically useless were it not for the correction modules provided by DxO!

We all develop favorite "go-to" programs and as our skills develop we learn to more and more with each of these programs. I'm still learning LR. I see that it has a Rotate and a crop tool and simple rotation could have been done in LR. As you alluded, I also changed the perspective just a bit.

To my mind LR's strength is keeping track of a large library of photos, assigning and using keyword to find them. I have moved all my photos into LR because of that single feature. LR also offers a lot of other very good and useful tools. I can see why so many people like it. By LR and DxO cooperating as well as they do, they are acknowledging each others strengths and that they complement each other. I think DxO also has some sort of method for keeping track of a library of photos. I never bothered to learn it. Instead, I when with the accepted industry stranded for cataloging photos "LR".

My three go-to photographic tools are LR, PS, and DxO.

If I'm not mistaken there was/is a stand-alone version of "Viewpoint". Somehow I ended up with a free copy of it for a while. Now I just use the tools included in my version of DxO optics pro that do the same thing.