Shoot Raw Now!
If you have a digital SLR and you are not shooting in raw format, stop it, stop it now!
Seriously I am playing around with raw and I can't believe the errors it can correct. Check this out, I was taking pictures of my friend's family and I really screwed up.
As I said the camera is new and I accidentally put my hand in front of the flash while shooting. And of course this turns out to be the perfect group shot if it wasn't so badly exposed.
Enter RAW. Using Bibble Pro in about 10 minutes I turned that shot into this:
The RAW format is the unprocessed data from the camera's sensor. That gives you the chance to "go back in time" and re-expose your picture. It's like you have film that has been developed and you realize you need to push it (sorry for the film lingo) and you can reprocess it and increase the ISO by 1, 2 or even 3 stops. That's amazing! If I had this when I was a photographer I might have stuck with it and wouldn't the internet be a poorer place... not.
So shoot RAW, do it now, thank me later. I shoot RAW plus JPEG normal, it's like 10MG a photo but hey, memory is cheap.
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Here's another cool technique for you HDR Photography
Tell Didier his family is beautiful. That is a great shot.
Is shooting in raw still slow though?
Barak is right, shooting in RAW makes a world of difference. I have a Canon 30D, and shoot in RAW, and never have any performance issues.
Great shot by the way!
I'm still finding my way around my Rebel, but as soon as I get a decent memory card (I currently have an old 512 meg CFI card) I'll switch to raw. What is Bibble?
Answers:
1) Raw is not slow on modern cameras with fast cards. I use a 133x Lexar pro card and I can shot at 3 frames per second until the card is full (well really for about 30 shots).
2) Bibble Pro is Raw processing software. You can use Photoshop with a plug-in and your camera will come with some RAW software (the major manufactures use proprietary RAW formats), but these packages give you more control. You can adjust exposure, white balance, color space, lens distortion and process noise. The are special packages and plug-ins like Noise Ninja for noise or DxO for lens distortion but the big packages combine this all often using plug-ins for the special processes. Apple Arepeture, Bibble and ADCsee all do batch processing and work-flow.
Start learning more here;
http://www.steves-digicams.com/digsoftware_color.html
Is there something you don't you like about PictureProject that comes with the Nikons?
Awesome!
a SLR is problably our next camera, but not too soon, we've just got a new canon powershot S3 IS (bridge) which is quite good, and still make life easy enough to bring it anywhere.
Picture Project is a very weak app slow and under featured. Nikon sells another fuller featured app for $99 called Capture 4 and they are replacing it with a $179 app called Capture EX. Picture project is slow and its noise reduction is poor. EX looks very interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GEQ0HW/sr=1-35/qid=1152252662/ref=sr_1_35/002-9674512-0282402?ie=UTF8&s=photo
Don't you think you should use the Mocha theme!
Yes, absolutely.
About 90% of what I do with Photoshop these days is just pulling stuff into Adobe Camera Raw and adjusting the settings there. It's becoming more and more rare for me to actually do something in Photoshop itself.