D90 Raw Question
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- mg33
I'm busy going through photos from our vacation this summer, and started wondering something: when I take photos in Raw mode, and take them in B&W mode, they become color photos when I look at them in Bridge and in the Raw editor. I understand that.
Now, I just started to wonder, does the same thing apply to any other modes I use in the camera, such as Vivid, or Standard? Because in looking at some of my photos, I feel like some should be more vivid than they are. Any ideas?
- formed0
RAW is going to strip out any of the adjustments. For example, jpegs "adjust" the image (sat, contrast, etc., etc.). Most of the time, they look better coming out of the camera because of this.
With RAW you have to make those adjustments in Camera Raw or Lightroom (I know, can be a pain, esp when you see that pretty preview in Lr, then it quickly changes to a boring image as the RAW files loads over the jpeg preview).
Just shoot in a standard mode, adjust in Lr or Ps after.
- comicsans0
The Nikon tools will apply the adjustments to a Raw image to replicate the effect, don't if other tools can, I suspect Nikon keeps the details to themeselves.
- monospaced0
I shoot RAW from my Lumix and played around with the combined B&W settings. This pisses iPhoto off big time, and although I can adjust some settings, getting a B&W out of it isn't a simple thing. The camera has no problem displaying the "adjusted" RAW image on its screen, but the computer doesn't seem to get the same information correct.
- mg330
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to do some tests soon of JPG vs. RAW and see what they look like together in Bridge. Obviously, I like shooting RAW for the editing capabilities, but as I'm going through 2,500 photos from our vacation in June, there's usually not a fast way of just batch processing many of them without individual editing.
In the Adobe Raw editor, I did click the "Default" button that appears in the tools to the right of the photo. Surprisingly, the quality changed instantly and I feel that it may have actually put it in the Vivid mode settings in the editor. Because, before when "Auto" was selected, the photo was very lifeless. After pressing Default, it really looked more like what I took. I wish I'd tried this with a B&W because that would be excellent if it indeed changed it to the aspects of when I took it.
- mg330
I'm talking about the Auto and Default that are above the Exposure slider.
Also, feel free to put this image in the COTD thread. She's gorgeous.
- mg330
Some more good information, but trying to understand this:
- vaxorcist0
I'm not a fan of Nikon's RAW tools... so I ignore those modes....
Batch Processing in Bridge can be more tedious than in Lightroom, CaptureOnePro, or even Corel AfterShotPro, which can all take one shot and more easily apply the same settings to a series of other images and immediately let you see what happens, rather than waiting a while for Bridge to go off to Photoshop and back again and blink a bunch for each photo and sometimes crash with odd error messages...
Corel AfterShotPro used to be Bibble, hopefully Corel doesn't mess it up too much, it's fast, especially at making contact sheets, only 2 weaknesses: 1: not so great with massively over-exposed images and 2: you have to get Noise Ninja plug-in separately if you're shooting low light, high-ISO and want it to look less noisy.
Lightroom 4.0 is my current favorite, brush tools are FANTASTIC, and its highlight rescuing from over exposure or contrast is great.... weakness: If you don't have enough RAM, or your computer isn't pretty fast, or you're using a slower USB external hard drive, it can be slow to respond to UI elements and a bit maddening... high ISO is great too....
CaptureOnePro seems to give nicest skin-tone out of the box, pretty good at rescuing over-exposure highlights, and fast to export..works well on even not-so-brand-new hardware, but high iso, low light images can be a bit more grainy than lightroom's....
Have fun! I'm processing a couple of 3000 shot association conference jobs right now....
- still haven't switched to 4 yet. i have a bunch of presets i need to convert. but 4 looks awesome!jaylarson