Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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! Ted You're not alone... When I shoot for a requested job I shot literally thousands pictures. A book is going to be published about "Urban statues in Bilbao in XIX and XX centuries" where the text is written down by a historian while I did the pictures some months ago. I cannot imagine working with thousands pictures in RAW. A Photoshop action makes auto levels for correcting metering mistakes and only in some occasions some contrast or other major defect is corrected. I try to shot the best picture from, the starting point and not make confidence in the Photoshop capabilities however these are welcome. Besides the industrial printing guys do not love working with the huge TIFF files produced by My 1ds cameras and prefer JPGs smaller ones. Men -or women- in charge of selecting the right images from the several I shot of every statue have not PCs able of viewing quickly big files. In fact in my first work -shot in RAW some years ago- they couldn't see nothing at all. Quite different thing, I wonder, is shooting not so many pictures with the only purpose of getting artistic images. You can then shoot RAW just for getting the ultimate quality of every image. Every day I more and more believe, in images as in equipment, that the best is enemy of the good. Warm regards Felix