Posted by Tom Kloster on July 23, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Hmm... well, I think I might need to take another run at the color balance on this one, but you get the idea -- a very pretty cloud cap on Mount Hood on Sunday evening, as viewed from Middle Mountain in the Upper Hood River Valley. I'm struggling to bring out the greens in the foreground ridge and below Stranahan Ridge, but now this looks a bit yellow or possibly over-saturated to me. I'm working from a fairly dark original and haven't graduated to RAW yet, so I'm somewhat limited on selectively editing this.
Suggestions and comments welcomed!
Tom
Olympus E-300, 40-150 lens at 84mm, 1/100 se
Posted by Darren White on July 23, 2007 at 1:00 PM
tom....would you mind if I reworked this image...I think I can help
I guess I probably should start shooting in RAW just to have the file, even though I'll still need upgrades to software and hardware to actually do anything with them. My camera has a combined JPEG/RAW mode, and I have plenty of memory to store the images... just haven't been ready to take the leap, yet! Right now, I mostly use shadows/highlights, levels and hue/saturation adjustments to work with images, with all of the constraints that come from working with JPEGs as the source file.
BTW, Mark - I took this shot from the viewpoint that you mentioned on Middle Mountain. Another photographer with a large-format camera showed up, and when I asked him how he learned about that spot, he said it was just from looking at maps for prospective viewpoints..! He was from Spokane, and shooting the Hood area for a few days. I've been up to that spot at least 3 times now, but haven't come close to the cool cloud shot that you posted awhile ago. It's just a beautiful view from up there!
Tom, if your camera shoots RAW, I would hope that they would include a converter on the SW CD... If not, there are 3rd party converters out there. ACDSee Photo Editor is $50. Their Knowledge base claims support for Olympus, though they don't specify models. There is a 30day trial you can download to try it.
I'm sure there are some share/freeware programs out there as well.
Hmm... interesting! So you can convert a JPEG to a RAW format after the fact? I will definitely look into that, since it have a boatload of JPEGs archived. I'm using Photoshop CS, but not the Olympus software so much. I'll take a look at what I've been ignoring..! I'm the original culprit in not reading manuals, so I have a long history of stumbling across the obvious after long, frustrating struggles... isn't that how everyone learns to use applications..?
Tom
Posted by AJ Montgomery on July 23, 2007 at 11:46 PM
Looks like a cloud airplane crash landed on the top of Hood! (or the Michelin Man fell from the sky )
Seriously, I am not sure of what may make this photo great, but it sure is interesting to view.
I was at Trillium Lake Sat. evening and clicked off quite of shots of Hood with that cloud sporadically covering it. Maybe I'll post one.
This is an interesting shot but you need to have the raw file so you can get it where you want it.
Thanks for the processing suggestions - sure enough, there's a "save to Photoshop RAW" option that I'd never noticed before, and it must have worked, because a 6 MB JPEG suddenly became a 22 MB RAW file..! That's good to know, although I suspect that I've lost some image in this process, as opposed to capturing it in RAW format to begin with. I'm also digesting the implications of 22 MB image files on my CF cards - that's about 45 images per card, as opposed to 170 JPEGs.
My goal has been to buy Aperture when I do some computer upgrades next winter, and switch to RAW at that point. But now I'm thinking that I should go to the dual JPEG/RAW mode now, so that I start building my library of RAW images in advance.
Anyone have any feedback/thoughts on what saving JPEGs as RAW files does to an image that has not been opened and saved in JPEG format? It seems like the resulting RAW file would be at least as good as the JPEG it came from, so that makes it worthwhile to do this... I think... This is all new to me, so I've got some learning to do!
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I'm sure there are some share/freeware programs out there as well.
Tom
Seriously, I am not sure of what may make this photo great, but it sure is interesting to view.
This is an interesting shot but you need to have the raw file so you can get it where you want it.
My goal has been to buy Aperture when I do some computer upgrades next winter, and switch to RAW at that point. But now I'm thinking that I should go to the dual JPEG/RAW mode now, so that I start building my library of RAW images in advance.
Anyone have any feedback/thoughts on what saving JPEGs as RAW files does to an image that has not been opened and saved in JPEG format? It seems like the resulting RAW file would be at least as good as the JPEG it came from, so that makes it worthwhile to do this... I think... This is all new to me, so I've got some learning to do!
Thanks, again, for the comments and suggestions!
Tom