kevinparis
Cantankerous Scotsman
absolutely nothing you may say....
but RAW is good... but worrying on how to deal with it is very very bad.
RAW is simply all the image data your camera captures. If your camera is set to shoot jpeg or only shoots jpeg then the image you get has already thrown away at least 20% of the image you shot.
Import a RAW file into a computer and it has to 'process' this file.. If you are on a Mac then the RAW 'conversion' is done at the OS level... and Apple have spent a lot of time and effort to make sure that conversion is as true to the camera manufacturers interpretation as possible. This happens for iphoto and Aperture and Preview and even the thumbnails you see in the Finder
If you use Adobe software, Adobe Camera RAW (aka ACR) will do the same thing, and their guys are equally passionate about getting as good an image as possible.
Bottom line is that you the photographer should NEVER have to play around with all those RAW adjustment sliders...unless you really know what you are doing otherwise you will either see no obvious results or will screw up your opportunity to mess about with the image later. I have never ever seen a raw conversion slider that has made an image look better than the default settings
My theory is that 95% of all photographers.. and maybe even a 100% of photographers here don't need to have any control over or any concern with the the RAW conversion process. Let the experts at Adobe and Apple fret about that... really your life is too short and you don't know what you are doing.
Also you don't need Photoshop or similar to do photography... they are completely the wrong tool for photographers... they are wonderful graphic arts tools but were never designed for photographers.
Lightroom or Aperture and maybe Bibble offer the best way for almost anybody who takes digital images to import process and share their images quickly and easily.
I know photoshop...probably longer than most people here....its a wonderful application... but it is not the best way for a photographer to start processing their images. It is a tool for grahic artists... not photographers
If you are working in digital photography, especially if you are starting don't buy photoshop....buy aperture or lightroom look and learn what both programs can do to your pictures and how they address the organisational nightmare you will bump against someday
and if you find you really need Photoshop... which i doubt... buy it later when you understand what it is you are trying to do.
I know there are things photoshop is good for.. but in my world they are black belt ninja things that most people neeed less than 5% of the time
just my opinion... your mileage may vary
k
but RAW is good... but worrying on how to deal with it is very very bad.
RAW is simply all the image data your camera captures. If your camera is set to shoot jpeg or only shoots jpeg then the image you get has already thrown away at least 20% of the image you shot.
Import a RAW file into a computer and it has to 'process' this file.. If you are on a Mac then the RAW 'conversion' is done at the OS level... and Apple have spent a lot of time and effort to make sure that conversion is as true to the camera manufacturers interpretation as possible. This happens for iphoto and Aperture and Preview and even the thumbnails you see in the Finder
If you use Adobe software, Adobe Camera RAW (aka ACR) will do the same thing, and their guys are equally passionate about getting as good an image as possible.
Bottom line is that you the photographer should NEVER have to play around with all those RAW adjustment sliders...unless you really know what you are doing otherwise you will either see no obvious results or will screw up your opportunity to mess about with the image later. I have never ever seen a raw conversion slider that has made an image look better than the default settings
My theory is that 95% of all photographers.. and maybe even a 100% of photographers here don't need to have any control over or any concern with the the RAW conversion process. Let the experts at Adobe and Apple fret about that... really your life is too short and you don't know what you are doing.
Also you don't need Photoshop or similar to do photography... they are completely the wrong tool for photographers... they are wonderful graphic arts tools but were never designed for photographers.
Lightroom or Aperture and maybe Bibble offer the best way for almost anybody who takes digital images to import process and share their images quickly and easily.
I know photoshop...probably longer than most people here....its a wonderful application... but it is not the best way for a photographer to start processing their images. It is a tool for grahic artists... not photographers
If you are working in digital photography, especially if you are starting don't buy photoshop....buy aperture or lightroom look and learn what both programs can do to your pictures and how they address the organisational nightmare you will bump against someday
and if you find you really need Photoshop... which i doubt... buy it later when you understand what it is you are trying to do.
I know there are things photoshop is good for.. but in my world they are black belt ninja things that most people neeed less than 5% of the time
just my opinion... your mileage may vary
k