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I took my photos in RAW and JPEG, then what?
by Lilian ·
I wish I have some flair in Photoshop-ing skills but the fact is, I have none. Normally I judge by how nice the photo looks on my PC. However, that’s quite a misleading way to measure because almost all my photos look nice enough on my Sony Vaio laptop but they look fake on my Samsung monitor which is supposed to optimize for games. Whenever I used that Samsung monitor, I will go, OMG, why are the photos so ugly!
Anyway, sometimes, I still use the setting RAW and JPEG on my Nikon D40. I wonder why I do that because I never bother with touching up any of my photos. I do not have the patience, time or skill. I just dump them into my PC, upload them to Flickr and that’s about it.
The rest, I just keep stuffing them into my external hard drive because my Sony only has 40GB + 40GB disk space and they fill up real fast.
So, what do people do with their RAW photos? Please tell? Spend time touching up to show off? Bask in their own masterpiece?
September 10th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I don’t shoot raw. A screw up photo in raw still screw up
September 10th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
I shoot RAW because I want maximum detail and better control over white balance.
Nothing to do with touch-up
I used to shoot Jpeg only, until one time I shot RAW and took the time to convert from RAW to Jpeg, the difference was worlds apart.
So now I shoot RAW
If you want to shoot just Jpeg its better to use a PnS or Prosumer camera as dSLR are not set to make great Jpegs, they will usually be under saturated, flat in contrast and slightly underexposed. This gives maximum detail, which you only benefit from shooting in RAW.
September 12th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
ST - But RAW produces pale colours on my camera and I need to adjust them. However, adjusting with photoshop is so nice but I wasted too much time playing with them.
moo_t - I don’t mind both but it kills my hard drive’s space.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I just wanted to let you know what I’ve been doing recently with my photos. Actually I don’t have a camera capable of taking pic in RAW format (It’d be nice to have one). But if you really want to unleash its power you’ll have to get an additional software - preferably Photomatrix to create HDR (High Dynamic Range) image. If you want to create HDR of your existing photo collection then you’ll need Photoshop CS such that you can create multi exposure photos out of the single shot which will be used later to create HDR.
HDR is an imaging technique that enhances the detail and tone of the photo such that it’ll look vivid and alive. (at other times it might look artificial)
You can visit my flickr account named ‘WebXplorer’ and take a look at some of the HDR images that I created. There are lots of examples and tutorials in the net which tells you exactly how to create HDR images using different tools.
I hope you’ll especially like playing with the landscape photos (Its my favorite too).
Have a good day.