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snakeypete · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: RAW ...second try

ok second time around peeps , bare with me Exclamation

rite , here's the original file , only thing worked was the colour temp ( 6500 )...nothing else done ..

and now one I have slightly worked...

Beginning to think less is more with RAW ?
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Lynne · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject:

i wish i knew what you were on about. raw????????
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kroakykaren · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject:

Very nice pete Very Happy

i like the top one best.
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zarozinia · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

I prefer your 1st attempt in the other post Pete, but then we all have different preferences, that one jumps out at you more. All great work.
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Stuart · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject:

Mmm agree with angi,others were better mate..these look over exposed and out of focus if I'm honest.
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snakeypete · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject:

pmsl , cant win ! Wink

I prefer my first one as well but took on board fact of cast and WB.

Hardly did a thing with these and yet there overexposed , I dont get it ??

These are deff duller than the first , so struggling to see overexposure ?

deff must be more to this RAW image manipulation than I am grasping .

back to school then Laughing

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Lynne · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject:

so these could be taken with a £5 disposable camera then????
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Jase · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject:

Stuart · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject:

Pete an image is easily manipulated so an over exposed one can easily be brought back from a raw file...hence why maybe ya first ones look better..RAW isn't a magical potion its more like a digital negative and tbh I think a lot of people fail to grasp the real definition of a raw file. By shooting a raw image doesn't mean great results it means a blanker canvas as it were as it gives you more control over post process..if the original image isnt the greatest its going to be difficult at best to make something out of it...
worth a read http://www.popphoto.com/howto/2196/jpeg-vs-raw-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-explained.html
and good old Ken has a say on it Laughing

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm
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Stuart · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject:

Bottom line I guess is you cant make a silk purse from a sows ear...meaning get it as near as perfect straight from the camera. TBH I do very little post process on my images as I hate doing it so anything I do adjust is minimal. Worth spending the extra time getting the image correct from the off..Its all to easy to rely on photoshop etc to try and correct things. Cool

Edit to add..what lens are you using?
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