I don't think my hubby would like me shooting in the RAW lol
another good tutorial Rick thanks
I don't think my hubby would like me shooting in the RAW lol
another good tutorial Rick thanks
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Thaks for that Rick .
Have been looking at changing to RAW so now will give it a go.
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Thanks Rick
That was very helpful. I have been shooting in RAW for a little while and use the program you did the tutorial with. Most of the time I would click on the "auto" button because I wasn't sure of some of the slider's function e.g. the Recovery slider. I will try to process my files now manually rather than Auto.
Also, I have noticed that I am unable to view the properties of a file e.g. F Stop, Exposure time etc. unless I shoot jpg files. Is there a way of viewing this data with Raw Files (NEF files on my Nikon)?
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Ummm.. never mind.. I found how to open it! LOL
thanks for the very nice tutorial rick.. as alwasy
but my question is, from the above tutorial, it seems that the main advantage of raw is you can really do a lot of editing, but can't you also do that on a jpg?
yep you can but.... a jpg has already been processed in camera, sharpened/saturation/contrast etc a RAW file is just that RAW you control what adjustment YOU want as well as being able to make exposure adjustments if you got it a little bit wrong.
thats the short answer its a discussion that will continue for decades
EDIT Oh yeah, and a jpg file is already compressed eg a jpg file might be 2M and a RAW file of the same scene might be 10M thats 8M of detail you can't get back.
thats a little more of the simple answer...... and yes I shoot both jpg and RAW
Raw processing (till recently) has been 'whole of photo' processing. Ie you couldn't work on specific areas of your photo. RAW processors let you change the white balance, adjust shadows, etc. A RAW file is the data straight from the sensor (after analog->digital conversion).
A JPG is a processed photo. Your camera processed a JPG and saves it based on a series of instructions set in your camera. As dbax says, a RAW file might be 10MB of data, but the same JPG out of the camera might be 3MB..where did your other data go? Your camera just removed 7MB of colour information, pixel information etc that your camera sensor 'saw'. Does that sound the best way to get the best result from your captured image?
Yes you can edit a JPG just as you can a RAW file, but you are editing something that has already been striped of a lot of information. I know which one I would rather work with.
Strictly speaking that is arguable at least. Canon's DPP has had features for healing and cloning for years. LightZone (agreed, not a very well known RAW converter) provides things like dodge and burn, regional edits etc. It offered these features since day 1 (back in 2005 or 2006 or so). And those are just two converters I've been playing around with, there are many, many more out there.
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I agree Jev, thats why I said until recently - meaning the last few years
HI Rick
I have been shooting in RAW and JPEG as i cant seem to open RAW photo's on my pc, (so shooting in both as a back-up and until i learn enough to go soley RAW). I have CS4 with camera RAW, do i need another program to be able to open the photo's or should that be suffiecent? as at the moment it says it doesn't recognise the file - having no trouble opening the JPEG's though.
Do i need to download another type of software to be able to open the RAW images?
Thanks so much
Nicole
Yay it worked THANK YOU> I have downloaded the updates a couple of times and it never worked, this time i just kept re-updating after one finished (maybe the update kept timng out).
SO excited! Just tried it out, and your right i could get more detail out of the same photo i had taken in JPEG and RAW, still not confident to go RAW on its own yet incase something happens and i cant open them again, glad i have the option to take both at once.
Thank you again.
Nicole
G;day all,
I've just downloaded a gimp2.6, from the development team as specified on their web site, but find the thing a bit difficult..
for example, it doesn't seem to recognise raw format, and the on-line tutorials seem (I say seem as I'm not all that aux fait with complex programmes...) to describe dialog boxes that have little relation to those appearing on my computer.
Does anyone have any constructive suggestions? (other than give it all away or spend a 1,000$ on PS?)
I sometimes wish we all stuck to film....
cheers
You dont need to spend $1000s - go get a copy of Photoshop Elements, much cheaper and does most of what photoshop does