On the camera LCD all my four RAW shots were nicely low-key and black, but when uploaded to laptop became a bit lighter which I put down to being raw photos. When put into PhotScapeX all four became very bright and I had to do a LOT of burning and darkenning.
The same happened again with today's photo, on Windows 10 they're fairly low key but I bunged it into Affinity it became bright. Is this 'normal' or 'usual'? I'd ask Google, bit I think you'll understand my questiton more!!
When you shoot you are telling the camera certain things so it will show you the image how your settings made it look, but the RAW file overrides these and gives you a bigger set of data... eg if you have the camera set to black and white the RAW file will still be in full colour, or if you used exposure compensation the RAW file will ignore it... my camera can be set to take RAW + JPG at the same time so if yours does you could try it and see what differences there are. it will also help you remember what you were aiming for so you can process accordingly.
I really like this with the dark background and the wonderful textures that you captured. In addition to that the light is also terrific and I would argue with you that it’s not a good shot!
Thank you all, I had another go today and I do have a question for you processing whizz-kids please.
On the camera LCD all my four RAW shots were nicely low-key and black, but when uploaded to laptop became a bit lighter which I put down to being raw photos. When put into PhotScapeX all four became very bright and I had to do a LOT of burning and darkenning.
The same happened again with today's photo, on Windows 10 they're fairly low key but I bunged it into Affinity it became bright. Is this 'normal' or 'usual'? I'd ask Google, bit I think you'll understand my questiton more!!
I knew all raw shots need a bit of processing but surprised at how much was needed!!
@grammyn thanks Katy