Photography • Chris Dzombak

Neat Image noise profiles for the Ricoh WG6

I have developed a set of Neat Image noise profiles for the Ricoh WG6 underwater camera. These cover JPEG images straight out of camera. ISO: 125, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 Image Tones: Bright, Natural, Vibrant, Slide Film, Monochrome Other settings: Large image size, sharpening: standard, saturation: standard, contrast: …

Neat Image noise profiles for the Leica X1

I’ve developed Neat Image noise profiles for the Leica X1 camera. These cover JPEG images straight out of the camera. ISO: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 Film presets: Standard, Vivid, Natural, B&W Natural, B&W High Contrast Other settings: 12.2MP resolution, JPEG super fine, …

Beavers at work in West Lake Nature Preserve

Following my success capturing images of beavers at work in Dexter earlier this week, I've finally captured some photos & video I'm really happy with! This time at West Lake Preserve in Washtenaw County: …

Beavers in Dexter, MI

I've been meaning to write something about this for quite a while now. It's been over a century since beavers in our area were hunted & trapped so extensively that you could easily go your entire life without seeing any sign of one. Over the past …

Neat Image noise profiles for the Sigma sd Quattro H

I've developed Neat Image noise profiles for the Sigma sd Quattro H camera. These profiles cover JPEG images and RAW (X3F) images processed with Sigma Photo Pro 6. You can find additional details and download the profiles from the Neat Image website. Alternatively, the files are available here. …

A rule of thumb, that I need to keep in mind, is that it will take about the same amount of time to edit photos as I spent shooting them.

This holds true for birding (2 hours of birding results in roughly two hours of editing), and in my experience from a decade ago it holds true for music & theatre photography. YMMV.

I'm not yet sure how it maps to photos from e.g. our Grand Canyon or Zion trips, but I bet one day of trip photos roughly equates to the amount of time I want to spend photo editing in one day.