开云体育Hi Dudley,
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Thank-you for your advice – I really appreciate all the help I have been
given.
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My experimentation over the last fortnight has been with RAW images, and
whilst each picture is about 20 megabytes of data, the quality of the pictures
are significantly superior to all my previous efforts. This includes the
sharpness, as well a good balance of colour. I haven’t tried to use an
application to modify any of the images, however in all honesty, I am very happy
with the results straight from the camera download. I will at some stage use a
program to modify pictures, however the standard of pictures I currently have, I
am not sure where the pictures would need improvement?
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This is still a learning experience for me, however I do feel like I have
taken a giant step forward in the quality of my results, just in the last
fortnight.
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Thanks again – and as “I am the student” any advice is always gracefully
appreciated. I can only improve by going through the practical steps of
setting-up, and taking pictures, however without the guidance I have received,
this journey would have been a lot more challenging!?
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Best regards
Bruce
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Hello Bruce, ?
Forgive me butting in on your conversation, these points may help:
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Shooting RAW images enables you to retain complete control over all aspects
of your image as if you were there using your camera all over again. Exposure,
colour saturation, contrast, brightness, etc AND the images are sharper. This is
because you are working with RAW data whereas a jpeg or tif is processed data (=
less to play with) and the data has also been compressed.
If you shoot RAW images under whatever mixes of lighting make sure you do
just one shot - anywhere in your sequence of shots - of a small patch of
mid-grey. A 'grey card' in old parlance. Make sure it is far enough into your
shot to be affected by the ambient/prevailing lighting. It doesn't have to be in
focus or blur-free so stick the camera on 'A' (Aperture priority Automatic) and
do your test shot. Then continue shooting your preferred shots as you
wish.
When you get home and in Elements, or whatever programme you use, look for
the pipette/ dropper symbol in tools. Go to your grey test shot and with dropper
on the grey, left click your mouse. You should see your image change from the
original weird greeny/orange(?) colour to 'normal' colour.
This change can then be applied to all other images under that particular
lighting (which I can't go into here because I don't know what your set-up is -
but I'd be happy to help further if you want to get in touch.)
Sharpness settings can also be tweaked at this stage so an image that looks
'soft' can have its sharpness increased. Exercise caution here though;
an over-sharpened image looks awful!
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I hope this has been of some help for you. I am by profession a
photographer of thirty years. At work we use Photoshop CS6 daily and at home I
use Photoshop Elements 8 quite happily. I always shoot RAW on both my Nikon D300
and Panasonic LX3 and am still very pleased with the results.
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Kind regards,
Dudley
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