Tim, On the TIFF and the original JPG, the contrasting colors are part of the photo's interest, I think. The foreground was in cool bluish shade, and the background lit by the warm setting sun.
Rick --- Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I presume this is not what you intended, but it is > kind of cool. I believe I > would have cropped off an inch at the bottom, > getting rid of some of the > conflicting colours of the rocks. > > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick > Womer > Sent: 25. august 2006 03:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: PESO: GFM Sunset, or Why I Switched to RAW > > Saturday night at GFM (the June edition) there was a > very nice sunset, and several of us repaired to the > top of the mountain to photograph it. I was > shooting > JPG, feeling intimidated my the perceived arcana of > RAW conversion. > > It was a mistake. The colors came out very > strangely, > with different strangenesses depending on where I > set > the white balance. Detail wasn't very good, either. > > This shot was one of the best, and it suffered > horribly getting compressed to a web-suitable size: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4848240 > > Ist D, FA 16-45, JPG, ISO 400, 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/11. JPG > converted to TIFF for editing, then "saved for Web" > in > PE4. > > The TIFF looks a lot better than the displayed JPG, > but even the original JPG was disappointing. And > that > is why I now shoot RAW. > > Rick > > > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

