On Dec 29, 2005, at 3:33, David Oswald wrote:
At http://users.adelphia.net/daoswald/ you can see a few shots I snapped today in Chinatown, Los Angeles. These were shot as RAW and coerced into jpegs after a little postprocessing. This was the first time I've taken exclusively RAW images. After initial RAW processing, I didn't re-touch them as jpegs, other than to size them down to web-friendly.
FYI, guys, go here to see his stuff http://users.adelphia.net/~daoswald/ (note the "~" in front of his name)
Notice the overly-bright sky, and underexposed subjects. I could adjust the midtones with the Levels tool, but I left them as-is to demonstrate my point.
I didn't see anything out of line with your pictures, and I guess I'd find any process (negative, slides, etc) would have the same difficulty pulling details out of the shadows as well as preserving highlights. You gotta pick your battles, I guess.
Back "in the day" you could fake it by dodging and burning at the enlarging stage. These days, that's what Photoshop is for. Nothing is magic, it all requires input and tweaking to get optimum results.
-Charles -- Charles Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org
