Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, For once I will disagree with your approach and I have an example to illustrate it. When I first started shooting digital last summer, I also shot JPEGs the first couple of weeks. But then I had an experience that made me reconsider. I posted this picture among my PAWs: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_31alt1.jpg After some feedback from the list, I decided that it would work better in B&W and converted it. On the screen it is acceptable. But when I tried to print it--forget it! Doing the conversion on a JPEG file resulted in unacceptable artifacts, and no amount of Photoshop wizardry (or at least wizardry that I am capable of) could remove them completely. Since that week I have shot only RAW. Yes, it ads an extra step to the workflow, but I do not drive myself crazy with it. All my corrections are very basic, just move the shadows and highlights controls in the RAW converter as needed (and I use PS CS's converter, not some specialized tool), adjust colour temperature if there is a cast, and click on OK. I do not come back from places with thousands of pictures; my recent trip to France and Denmark resulted in around 200 images, so the quantity was manageable. I sat and converted them to TIFF while watching TV on a Sunday afternoon. Shooting JPEGs is like making a good print and throwing away the negative. Nathan Ted Grant wrote: > I think what happens with many people doing digital is, they drive > themselves crazy with over work by fiddling every picture to death > trying to make it better. Raw? Hell that's a quick way to death! Shoot > everything JPEG and quick is far better and much easier on ones work > staring at the screen! > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com