H&H, San Gimignano, 2002
Pre-production Canon EOS-1Ds, 14mm lens, 1/800 second @ f2.8, ISO 800

These are my well-behaved daughters, photographed over 20 years ago, outside the walls of San Gimignano in Italia. I was using a pre-production Canon EOS-1Ds and thought that the folder name on the rear of the screen was the ISO. However, the folder was named '100' and I spent most of the family's two month sojourn shooting at ISO 800. I do remember thinking how much faster digital cameras were than film!

However, the purpose of this newsletter isn't to denigrate my photography skills, rather to share (yet another) new app that could make your life a lot easier. It's called Radiant Photo and it is being spearheaded by Elia Locardi, who I met over at the NZIPP conference last month. Essentially, Radiant Photo will process all your files 'automatically' and do a remarkably good job.

On a number of my flights this year, I have spent the time running through my raw files from 20 years ago, working them up in Capture One. I'm trying not to spend too much time on them as there are a lot! However, pressing the 'auto' button in Capture One, ACR or Lightroom doesn't do a perfect job and I'm left to make quite a number of adjustments myself.

Elia demonstrated his Radiant Photo, claiming that as a travel photographer, he doesn't have time to process every photo individually, so he developed Radiant Photo to do it for him.

I was somewhat skeptical, but I downloaded Radiant Photo's trial version and gave it a go. The first folder of photos worked remarkably well. In fact, with the press of a button (for the whole folder), many of the images looked better than my own more laborious and time consuming edits. I processed another couple of folders and I was sold. Not sure what Elia and his team have done, but it works a treat.

So, that was an historical shoot - what about current work? While Radiant doesn't process my Phase One files, it loves my Fujifilm photos. The advantage I see is that I can now easily process a whole day's travel shoot to a very high standard, certainly sufficiently good for posting on social media. And if there are images I want to work on further (e.g. using adjustment layers), the Radiant Photo edit has me several steps ahead.

Check it out at https://radiantimaginglabs.com/