I've been trying to see the comet, let alone photograph it for 5 days, (low clouds to the west, or worse, every single day, and tonight it's raining). I hate you..
Charles Robinson wrote: > On Jan 12, 2007, at 22:34, Charles Robinson wrote: > > >> 2.5 meg JPEG linked below - large file, sorry. And it's not very >> good but it's the best I was capable of while using a purloined key >> to go out on the roof during work! >> >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/images/imgp5058b.jpg >> >> Did anyone else manage to finally see this elusive thing? >> >> > > I've resized a few of the more-workable images and they are now > visible in a much-more palatable web-sized resolution. > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/2006_comet/index.html > > I must say... I decided for the first time in 3 years to shoot RAW > last night because I saw that the contrast was crappy and I knew I > would really have to work with these images to get anything workable > out of them at all. > > The first 3 images are all the exact same exposure - but I was able > to use different tricks (and I am still experimenting) to try and > draw out the darned thing to make it visible. The things I was doing > with curves and levels would certainly not have been possible with > JPEG - the image would have been completely destroyed by some of > those severe settings. > > SO I'll say this: For the critical, never-going-to-get-it-again > images, I can see that RAW is definitely a valuable resource. > > But for most of my shooting (which is glorified snapshots) I'll stick > with JPEG for the sheer simplicity of it all. It is nice to have > options. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > > -- -- The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
