Good example, Bong. I still don't light LR. After all this time, it still feels unnatural. I guess I'm just one of those that will have to take a course to really learn how to use it.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Bong Manayon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The best film-days analogy I have is that shooting straight to JPEG is like >> shooting Polaroids, and shooting RAW is like shooting negatives. The >> Polaroid gives you the convenience of straight to finished picture, at the >> expense of doing any darkroom work. >> >> Everyone shoots differently and decides what convenience level they prefer >> and what they'll give up for it. For me, the RAW image I get in the camera >> is just the beginning of the journey to a finished image. I don't publicly >> display a single image, not one, that I can say is Straight Out Of Camera. I >> have lots of images that I've never edited, but it's because they haven't >> been flagged as keepers for further work. > > My own take on the RAW/JPEG film analogy: I used to have my own B/W > darkroom where I pushed, pulled, dodged and burned--that was like > shooting RAW. However I never got around to color chemistry and > professional labs were not that too accessible so I depended on and > was at the mercy of commercial photo labs--that was like shooting > JPEGs. > > Bong > -- > Bong Manayon > http://bong.manayon.net > > -- > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
