On 1/30/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You want to use RAW and edit in [EMAIL PROTECTED] once converted to > obtain as much dynamic range as possible ... wedding dresses and > black tuxedos with skin tones in the same light is one of the more > difficult scene dynamics. > > If you are using Photoshop CS/CS2, Bruce Fraser's "Real World Camera > Raw with Photoshop CS[CS2]" (there are two different editions for the > different versions of photoshop) is an essential learning tool for > RAW image processing in the environment. I feel it has valuable > information whether or not you are using Photoshop-Camera Raw too. > While there are lots of other books that address higher level editing > in Photoshop from useful perspectives, this book presents the basics > in RAW conversion concepts and workflow that a photographer > absolutely must have first. (Nowadays, I'd do the editing and image > management in Lightroom but the conceptual underpinnings in this book > have proven invaluable anyway.)
You're the second person to suggest raw and Fraser's book. I'm gonna take every one's word for it. > Have enough memory on hand to capture 300-400 exposures. That's about > four 1G cards for a DS/DL, about five for a K10D. Just for giggles, I plotted out the amount of film I would need to shoot the whole thing with the C220 and the PZ-1. It came in at just under 300 exposures. That's a lot of processing and scanning. Works out to about $50 for the film and around $100 for processing and scanning (no proofs). Some of the film is 1600 Neopan. I'd process and scan that myself, which means that the cost is negligible, but the time is considerable. I only hope that I can keep my photoshop time to a reasonable level after shooting the wedding with a digital rig. > > My usual reaction when someone suggests I should do wedding > photography is to flee. Mine, too. I decided not to do this kind of work a while back and turned down a few requests. But I've never actually shot a wedding. We'll see. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
