On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > Shot my first batch of RAW images a week ago on a trip to Pittsburgh > occasioned by a death in the family. With Paul Sorenson's help I've gotten > them out of the camera and onto the computer using a LR import preset he had > recommended. I'm a bit disappointed in what I see. Almost nothing is really > sharp. Much is not sharp at all. It seems to be my biggest challenge at the > moment. > > That said, I understand RAW allows more leeway for making post-capture > corrections. There are some images I like that are a little to a lot > underexposed. There is one whole group, in which I'm especially interested, > that were shot at ISO 3200. I have absolutely no idea where to start. There > are so many things that can be changed, I have no idea what the names of most > of them mean -- hue? saturation? luminance?
Think about what each tag means, make big adjustments and watch the results. You can always restore the default. For example, "hue," it means the direction in which the overall color leans. Go one way, and you'll get more magenta. Go the other way, you'll get more green. "Saturation:" How saturated is the color? More saturation will give you more colorful colors -- if you'll excuse the redundancy. "Luminance;" Although I'm an ACR user and not a lightroom user, I would guess this gives you more midrange brightness, much like the brightness knob in ACR. (Don't know why Adobe doesn't use the same terminology.) But make an adjustment and watch. Paul > > A video that Paul recommended to me -- it was about the preset he uses -- > suggests that there are a few especially critical parameters that might > improve these images significantly, and provide me a place to start learning. > I'm open to suggestions about things to try. > > Thanks, > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
