I just shot a ton of photos at a theme park. The action was pretty intense most of the time with dolphins jumping and birds in flight. The bright sun caused a lot of problems for me but because I wanted to shoot fast I lost many of the images by shooting jpeg. This illustrates why I need to select RAW more often.
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MajorMagee wrote: No argument about the capability, but I don't care for the second image much at all and find the first one quite natural looking and dramatic.
I think this would be even more effective if there was a jpeg comparison right next to it showing the ugly result of trying to pull detail out of those shadows. Still gets the point across pretty dramatically though.
I'ts not like that's going to happen is it John. I don't care for the edit either Major, I think the skyline in particular looks unnaturally bright yellow in color, if this was shot at sunrise/sunset you wouldn't have that much light in the foreground. I suppose this does demonstrate that a RAW image can give you more to work with or give you a better quality photo.
My camera is DNG so that takes care of it for me! - it automatically generates a RAW and a JPG image. But if I want a JPG of a photo I find it usually works better to take my DNG image and convert that to JPG.
Once I started shooting all manual and RAW/DNG there's been no going back.
icepics wrote: I'ts not like that's going to happen is it John. I don't care for the edit either Major, I think the skyline in particular looks unnaturally bright yellow in color, if this was shot at sunrise/sunset you wouldn't have that much light in the foreground. I suppose this does demonstrate that a RAW image can give you more to work with or give you a better quality photo.
My camera is DNG so that takes care of it for me! - it automatically generates a RAW and a JPG image. But if I want a JPG of a photo I find it usually works better to take my DNG image and convert that to JPG.
Once I started shooting all manual and RAW/DNG there's been no going back.
Ever been down to the tropics? I've seen a sky like that many times. The exposure might be a little unbalanced on the bottom compared to the sky but this definitely shows the power of raw.
P.S. Everybody needs to lighten up a little bit. A little bit of humor goes a long way.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
icepics wrote: I'ts not like that's going to happen is it John. I don't care for the edit either Major, I think the skyline in particular looks unnaturally bright yellow in color, if this was shot at sunrise/sunset you wouldn't have that much light in the foreground. I suppose this does demonstrate that a RAW image can give you more to work with or give you a better quality photo.
My camera is DNG so that takes care of it for me! - it automatically generates a RAW and a JPG image. But if I want a JPG of a photo I find it usually works better to take my DNG image and convert that to JPG.
Once I started shooting all manual and RAW/DNG there's been no going back.
Ever been down to the tropics? I've seen a sky like that many times. The exposure might be a little unbalanced on the bottom compared to the sky but this definitely shows the power of raw.
P.S. Everybody needs to lighten up a little bit. A little bit of humor goes a long way.
*humour
Also, this isn't my picture and I didn't post it in the critique section. It's just a dramatic example I stumble across on the web. People are free to have their opinions on the edit but by voicing your critiques you're kinda missing the point here.
MajorMagee wrote: All I was trying to point out was that just because you can do something that extreme, doesn't mean you should.
This man would say otherwise.
I think we're getting away from the point. It shows the flexibility of raw.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
MajorMagee wrote: All I was trying to point out was that just because you can do something that extreme, doesn't mean you should.
This man would say otherwise.
I think we're getting away from the point. It shows the flexibility of raw.
Exactly. And just like you don't need to do extreme things, you don't need to critique a photo that's being used as an example for something extreme as being too extreme.
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