1. I don't like faffing about on the computer.
2. Instantly halves the number of pictures I can fit on a card.
3. When I first tried in camera editing on my D90, it ate all my pictures.
4. I don't manipulate my images much, aside from cropping and contrast.
I gave it another go last weekend, early morning in the hide with the sun coming right at me so the resulting images were all partly in shadow. I've just got round to loading the images and have processed them.
Now don't laugh, but I use Picasa 3, it's free and I like it! This shot of a Female House Sparrow has just had the auto-contrast and the fill-light treatment to sort out the shadows and to my untrained eye it looks good enough for me.
The ease with which I can muck about with the images in Picasa and then undo everything is great. So for now at least I'll stick with raw images and see how it goes.
Paul.
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Well good for you Paul...I have been told by alot of people I should shoot in Raw no Jpeg..but I'm not convinced...like you said it takes up alot of room on your card and if you already take good quality shots who's going to tell if it's raw or not?
Just my take on that ...by the way lovely picture.
Crista
Raw is best; or so they say.
I always shoot in jpeg. and happy with the results. I tried shooting in raw and jpeg a while ago, and to be honest, couldn't see any difference between the two once I'd processed them.
I'll stick with jpegs. No doubt a million photographers will tell me I'm wrong. lol
Good shot of the Sparrow. :)
I read that it is possible to process raw files to bring out more detail, especially in shadows which get blurred in the compression process with jpg.
I am another Picasa user. It is so useful. The only reason I don't use raw is that I can't see thumbnails of them when I open a folder to see what is in there. To compensate slightly I set the camera to the least compression it would go for jpg files.
A lovely capture of the House Sparrow, spoilt for choice standing in that dish full of goodies. Nothing like a bit of bribery to attract our feathered friends.
Nothing wrong with that photo. That Sparrow looks like a young one.
hear what you are saying about raw vs jpeg. some of my photographer friends say go for raw... I have been holding back for the same reasons as you maybe time to give it a try... but like you I use picassa, there is no shame in that.. and Like yo u Ilike to let the pics talk for themselves without too much tweeking
:o)
T
honey, whatever piccie u take is always the best to me :o) just wish u would chill a bit and let the piccie talk for itself, u know me no messing with piccies, they come as they were formed!
Mrs LBJ x
For me RAW is IN Paul for the simple reason that the computer has much more processing capability that the camera.
I normally shoot with camera setting as follows :
1. "0" sharpness
2. Neutral Saturation
3. "0" contrast
4. All in-camera enhancements including noise reduction swtiched "off"
This way you basically use the camera to give you an image as you see it and then you can touch the basics in free s/ws like Gimp etc.
I just came across your blog..a neighbor photographer (professional) advised me recently to shoot raw and also gave me tips on manual settings...since then I have had much better luck with nature photography, despite the down sides to raw that you've mentioned. I won't go back! Lovely sparrow shot!
I only shoot in Jpeg it works for me and I suppose thats the main thing, whatever works for you. For another handy free software check out my post on noise im sure you will find it usefull. Mike.
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