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Reality Based Steve12/02/2013 12:12:44 pm PST

re: #79 lawhawk

I use Picasa for image management, and it does most of the edits for posting online - I do very little except minor adjustments and cropping. WYSIWYG. I use Canon’s photo editor for manipulating on RAW files (CR2). They have a picture styles system that lets you “overlay” the style on the photo taken in CR2, so you can do stuff like twilight, portraits, landscapes, etc. Can be pretty useful.

Many cameras now have a RAW format and with memory costs dropping, it’s not a big deal to shoot exclusively in RAW, but the limitation becomes handling it on the back end - what kind of processing you’re willing to do for publishing.

Canon’s DSLRs will let you shoot CR2 and JPG at the same time in certain modes, so that’s a help if you want a lossless image plus the JPG for quick publication online.

I’m a big fan of RAW… Love being able to do non-destructive edits. I normally do RAW + Large JPEG, that way I’ve got both handy. I do about 90% of my tweaking in Lightroom, here are a few I did this weekend for my E-store

Gear was Canon 60d with 15-85 f3.5, single umbrella strobe with a bounce panel for fill. Manual mode, metered at F11. Minimal work in lightroom, just apply lens adjustment, crop and vignette. (White balance isn’t perfect on all of them, but good enough for the purpose)

Baron Pen

Baron 2

Cigar 1

Churchill 1

I’m hoping Santa Lizard brings me a couple of small manual speedlights, so I don’t have to pull out a monolight everytime I need to do some pics. Oh, and some radio triggers, because I NEVER forget to hook the sync cable back on

RBS