Hey, there!
So it's only been a few days of shooting RAW and I got Lightroom 5.2 installed, so I can now process my 14-bit .NEF files in Lightroom!
As I've been quite slumped this week, with three tests (last one's tomorrow) and two assignments (last one's tomorrow, as well), I didn't get to really focus on practising my shooting.
Anyhow, camera gear lie around the house so I took some simple shots of the D90 and utilized some things that I've learnt so far:
When I took this, I forgot to set the correct white balance (or temperature) so it came out more on the cool side.
My Photography lecturer (instructor? teacher?) personally asked me to practise using 'K' for white balance instead of the conventional AUTO or the other presets in-camera.
So when I reviewed it in the laptop, I was a little surprised.
However, as I shot it in RAW, I could easily bring back the photo to what it was supposed to look like.
A little processing on the contrast, colour and everything else and you get a very nice photo.
Don't get me wrong, though.
As you read this, you might begin to feel that by shooting RAW, I don't have to "get it right in the camera".
This is not the case of RAW.
In photography, I have to know (and I do) my exposure settings, my composition, my subject, my story and my overall goal of taking a certain photo.
Great and usable photos can straight away be obtained just from the shoot but sometimes, the camera doesn't capture what you actually saw on that day or the moment isn't totally portrayed in the photo you took.
Now, processing isn't about making something out of nothing, or faking something.
Editing and processing differ in the sense that in processing your photo, you want to bring back the colour, the feel and the intensity of the moment.
Editing can mean tweaking for mistakes but it could also go to lengths of adding people into the photo or other elements that are external to the original photo.
In processing, RAW gives you the ability to tweak your photo without risking much damage or decrement in your image quality.
More data is stored in a RAW file and all that data helps to retain your photo's quality.
You'll always get it right in the camera, whether it's RAW or JPEG; because that's what you have to do.
You can't just blatantly shoot everything with the mindset that you're going to go back home and process the heck out of your photos.
You want to do your best to capture every element of a scene, even to the point where all your processing is just a mere conversion of RAW to JPEG.
We are not perfect and we will never be.
So what we do is we do our best before releasing the shutter and do our best after the shutter is released.
So it's only been a few days of shooting RAW and I got Lightroom 5.2 installed, so I can now process my 14-bit .NEF files in Lightroom!
As I've been quite slumped this week, with three tests (last one's tomorrow) and two assignments (last one's tomorrow, as well), I didn't get to really focus on practising my shooting.
Anyhow, camera gear lie around the house so I took some simple shots of the D90 and utilized some things that I've learnt so far:
#26 : Big brother
When I took this, I forgot to set the correct white balance (or temperature) so it came out more on the cool side.
My Photography lecturer (instructor? teacher?) personally asked me to practise using 'K' for white balance instead of the conventional AUTO or the other presets in-camera.
So when I reviewed it in the laptop, I was a little surprised.
However, as I shot it in RAW, I could easily bring back the photo to what it was supposed to look like.
A little processing on the contrast, colour and everything else and you get a very nice photo.
Don't get me wrong, though.
As you read this, you might begin to feel that by shooting RAW, I don't have to "get it right in the camera".
This is not the case of RAW.
In photography, I have to know (and I do) my exposure settings, my composition, my subject, my story and my overall goal of taking a certain photo.
Great and usable photos can straight away be obtained just from the shoot but sometimes, the camera doesn't capture what you actually saw on that day or the moment isn't totally portrayed in the photo you took.
Now, processing isn't about making something out of nothing, or faking something.
Editing and processing differ in the sense that in processing your photo, you want to bring back the colour, the feel and the intensity of the moment.
Editing can mean tweaking for mistakes but it could also go to lengths of adding people into the photo or other elements that are external to the original photo.
In processing, RAW gives you the ability to tweak your photo without risking much damage or decrement in your image quality.
More data is stored in a RAW file and all that data helps to retain your photo's quality.
You'll always get it right in the camera, whether it's RAW or JPEG; because that's what you have to do.
You can't just blatantly shoot everything with the mindset that you're going to go back home and process the heck out of your photos.
You want to do your best to capture every element of a scene, even to the point where all your processing is just a mere conversion of RAW to JPEG.
We are not perfect and we will never be.
So what we do is we do our best before releasing the shutter and do our best after the shutter is released.
""Taking the picture is only half the battle," - Jared Polin"
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