Thank you all for your wonderful comments and FAVs on yesterday's photo "Flow". I was thrilled with each and every one that came my way!
I hope you will indulge me with one more shot from my long exposure workshop. I have been busy today editing the many photos I took on the river and didn't get out for new shots. These photos are my first experience editing RAW files. I can see the advantage of the format, but there is definitely a learning curve involved.
Very graceful, flowing image. I have avoided RAW so far because of the extra computer time involved. I spend way too much time staring at a screen already.
Amazing how you got the wave as well as the motion here! What kind of adjustments have you been making with the RAW files and how did you find it added?
Well I'm enjoying being indulged with your shots from the workshop! This is beautiful.
Looks like you're doing just great with your RAW processing too.
@rvwalker You make a really good point about the time factor, Ross! I don't know that I would like to take every photo in RAW. Too time intensive, but I will probably use it situationally. Thanks for your comment!
@archaeofrog Thanks Katie. I edited these images in LR3. I am very new to this software. (I've owned it forever, but never installed it.) Anyway, WB is one of the edits available for RAW files, but not jpg. By choosing "Daylight" I was able to bring out more blue tones in the water. Now that I think about it, I am pretty sure I didn't change the WB in this shot, but did in my "Flow" shot from Sunday. You can see the difference in the tones of the water between them. It was also helpful to be able to adjust for blacks and recovery which brought more detail into the whites. Basically, it was fine tuning the colors so that the "threaded" look of the water was enhanced. Hope that makes sense.
Wow, absolutely stunning image, one of the best water shots I've seen. And it was interesting reading about how you edited the RAW file. A fav and a new follower.
@pflaume Thanks for sharing, Lisa! I have Photoshop but mainly used it in the past for graphic design, not photo editing, so I don't airways have a good sense of what does what (and with my tiny monitor some sliders don't seen to do much of anything!).
I love both of these, and faved them both, the s=whites look like fluffy feathers! Well done you, I'd be so happy to be able to shoot something like this!
@frida Thank you so much for your comments and double favs! So nice of you! You should give it a try. It's really not hard. In this case it helped to have a very fast moving, churning river. I'm sure any body of water would work though.
July 2nd, 2013
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Looks like you're doing just great with your RAW processing too.
I always shoot in Raw, it takes up a lot of space so I now have my photos on 2 hard drives.