understated

It was some time in April that, prompted by a piece of information that was enough to make me investigate, I learned that I could convert the raw files - that I hitherto could not view - in order to bring them into my version of photoshop.

And my reward is, that I am now:
-storing two or three times the size of files and getting rather muddled as to what I should keep and what I should delete
-spending much much longer processing my images before ending up with a jpg file I am happy with
- confronted with so many more functions at my fingertips that I have yet to fathom out
-often ending up with a file that is no better than the jpg that my camera created for me alongside the raw.

On the plus side, though, there are some things I can do so much more easily and I am enjoying that freedom to the extent that when I went back to shooting just jpg a few days ago, I got very frustrated at not having those functions in the bridge software. The reason for all this preamble?

Well this - of the grasses - is one in which I played with the saturation of the colours in the bridge software and actually ended up with something that I enjoy much better than the cameras jpg image.


One to view on black if you can be bothered.

[FBailey]

I could never see the point of RAW until I tried it. I now do RAW & JPEG but don't often use the latter. It does use much more space but if like me you enjoy faffing, you get much more leeway to faff:) Really like this image btw:)

[Maggiemae]

It all sounds rather hard and time- consuming! Cute little star shapes within this flower!

[judith deacon]

A lot of work but what a result, this image is glorious! Well done, I really ought to persevere with RAW but never seem tohave the patience or time!

[Suzanne]

Lovely detail and tones. I read your post the other day and checked out if my camera was capable of RAW. I think I'm pleased it doesn't :)

[Clare Gadsby]

mmm well the tones you have here really are lovely. i shoot raw on my olympus and enjoy the flexibility. having said that, i've decided to give jpegs a go on my fuji as the raw files are quite ridiculously gigantic, and lots of people say the jpegs are plenty good enough ... we shall see ...

[Larry L]

really great!

[Babs]

Beautiful, it looks so nice on black. It depends on what I am photographing as to whether I do RAW or not. Most of the time though I tend to shoot in RAW and JPEG

[Dawn]

Fabulous

[Ivan]

@fbailey and Helen Jane. All true! But it is a wonderful tool, working from the true digital negative. Fav for this one, nice delicate tones, angle.

[carol white]

Nicely focused, a lovely delicate image. Fav!! 😀

[Ann Williams]

Whatever you've done with it, this photo is very delicate and has been processed to perfection. Fav.

[Catherine Otley]

Lovely, subtle photo. @fbailey tells me about the possibilities of shooting RAW and processing, but I am a purist and just tweak mine - plus I simply don't have the patience for 'faffing'.

[Stephanie]

I think this is so lovely, understated and simple. I take pics in jpegs and raw but I mostly only edit the jpegs, in fact the only time I really use the raw pics is if I want to change the white balance on a shot.