On Apr 20, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > I'm with Ken. I shoot RAW exclusively, even when I don't "need" to. I want > the most dynamic range possible plus the flexibility. Lightroom and or > Photoshop are always part of my workflow.
Pretty much the same with me. > > I have programmed the K20D's RAW button to stay in RAW because I've > accidentally bumped it in the past and ruined a few otherwise good shots. I programmed it to go into bracket mode, unfortunately, there isn't a one button solution to get out of bracket mode. I wish that it would go into bracket mode for one shutter press, or pressing it again would take it out. > > Life is short; keepers are rare; disk space is cheap. That's T-shirt material. My original question wasn't so much about raw vs jpeg, the file format is almost a symptom of the planned process. When I shot film, even though I processed it myself, I'd try to get things right in the camera, I wouldn't fiddle with the processing, but I would try to fix my screwups in the darkroom. When I had no access to a darkroom, I'd just hope that everything I did in the camera was right. On the other hand, photographers like Adams, would take a photograph, keeping in mind the type of film and how he was going to process it. The film processing would be done to get the most performance out of the film for that particular exposure, and I expect he also had specific darkroom techniques for particular films, processed a certain way. These days, I'll usually shoot with the intention that my raw file can be converted directly to JPEG, using the white balance set at the time of exposure, and preferably with no exposure correction, or for that matter cropping, needed in lightroom. I'm usually pleasantly surprised when I actually succeed. However, there are specific shots where I know that the camera won't be able to capture the photo I want, without some specific post processing, whether it's radically underexposing the musician to keep the color of the stage lights (I suppose that a graduated ND filter with just the top of the filter darkened would be better for this), or bracketing in case I want or need to use an HDR technique on the photo. Let me rephrase the question: How often do you alter the way that you take a photo, to optimize the final product, taking into account post processing, rather than just trying to get something that could pretty much go straight to jpeg, or the printer? -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
