I am just curious if anyone is willing to post a before (straight out of the camera image) and after (post processing finished) so we (the newbie's to the more advanced aspects of the digital process) can see what the differences are!
I knew I was going to crop it the minute I saw it. I liked how the tree was sort of spread out like an octopus but I wanted the viewer to be a bit confused as to what they were looking at. The tree had been burnt and was already sort of black and white but I de-saturated it even more in the final photo and over saturated the background a bit because I wanted to contrast the new growth against the dying tree.
excellent idea for a thread!! having never shot digitally, i've been wondering what RAW files looked like. how do you go about taking a file from raw to finished? is there some program that gets you mostly there, each image only requiring some tweaking, or does every image have to be individually taken from RAW to finished? for an average shot, how involved is that? is more or less difficult than dialing-in a drum scan from a good tranny?
It's way, way less difficult than scanning. All the film guys I know are always gripping about hard it is to get a good scan.
Photoshop has a RAW converter built right into it, Adobe Camera Raw. You can open the photo there, work it a bit and then open it in PS and work it some more.
I've been working more and more with RAWShooter Essentials and liking it a lot better for contrast adjustment than Adobe Camera RAW. It's an extra couple steps, but I think it's worth it.
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12 repliesI knew I was going to crop it the minute I saw it. I liked how the tree was sort of spread out like an octopus but I wanted the viewer to be a bit confused as to what they were looking at. The tree had been burnt and was already sort of black and white but I de-saturated it even more in the final photo and over saturated the background a bit because I wanted to contrast the new growth against the dying tree.
Here's one for you. This is the before shot. It's an un edited raw file.
Your absolutly right. The image was named the same so I automatically thought it was the same. My bad. Here is the original file. BTW good eye.
Photoshop has a RAW converter built right into it, Adobe Camera Raw. You can open the photo there, work it a bit and then open it in PS and work it some more.
Jim, I don't do it at all, I'm just relating what I've heard. You're a stud though, you shouldn't expect people to be like you!