Eric -
I know you've gotten lots of feedback on this but I'll chime in anyway.
Take a look at this tutorial on using an import preset in Lightroom 3.
http://vimeo.com/12404424
I have created a preset based on his recommendations and use this for a
general workflow:
Shoot raw and set Lightroom to convert my files to DNG upon import, then
apply the preset as described in the video. They take very little
tweaking after that. The caveat, of course, when processing raw files
is that if you're having you're printing done by a service, you need to
export copies of the processed files as jpg's.
-p
On 11/23/2010 5:36 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
On Nov 23, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Eric Weir<[email protected]> wrote:
Regarding converting to DNG, I will now expose my naiveté by [1] admitting
that, again for the time-being, I am shooting jpeg, [2] asking what's the
advantage of DNG.
Think of it like having a print (jpg) versus a negative (DGN) to create a print.
The jpg's are smaller files rendered from the original in camera digital info.
The DGN's are bigger files and retain more detail that can be brought out in
software like Lightroom.
5 years ago when digital was new, one of our UK PDML'ers made a discovery.
He was shooting jpg's exclusively and tried some RAW (DGN) shots.
He posted side by side comparison shots and the detail in the white areas
(black areas) was just plain better in the DGN shots.
More of the original image was maintained.
More could be brought out in difficult lighting situations.
That was enough for me, I stopped using jpg's and switched to DGN's
Thanks, Bob. I know that subject heading broadcasts my utter ignorance to the
world, but the original one was clearly no longer appropriate.
So RAW and DGN are the same thing?
I figured that at some point down the road I'd switch to RAW, but am deterred for now by
concerns about memory and storage and, most important, the fact that my understanding of
processing and editing is more limited -- "non-existent" would be more
appropriate -- than even my understanding of file management in LR. Better to leave the
processing to the camera for now, I think.
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