If life was that easy….sleep. let someone else feed you…sleep…go to the bathroom…bark…sleep some more…eat again…bathroom once more…go to bed for the night…
Hi Randy, I noticed on Scott’s blog that you are interested in RAW capture now. As a full time RAW shooter I must caution you, be careful. There are issues with RAW that pros never talk about, and the biggest one is image corruption. JPG images almost never corrupt, because they are such a small file size and they also don’t have to worry about storing all the extra camera settings. RAW images however may give you some trouble. Do a test first, or at least do NOT go and shoot a big important wedding cold turkey in RAW. Shoot a few thousand un-important images first, and see how things go. If you don’t start having images corrupt on you, then good luck!
Personally, after shooting JPG for 1.5 years and RAW for the next 1.5 years, and after trying Lightroom, Adobe Bridge CS2 and CS3, as well as Apple Apeture, MY OPINION is that I don’t really need RAW capture, I just prefer the RAW processing software layout. Sure, sometimes you blow a shot and RAW can get it back, but that is a very dangerous path to tread and personally I would rather train myself to be a better camera operator.
And with Lighroom, Apple Apeture and Adobe Bridge CS3, we can now edit JPG images as if they were RAWs. Of course you can’t get the same amount of highlight recovery as you could with a RAW image, but the processing engine with it’s other advantages are what I’ve always wanted, not necessarily the RAW power. So for me, I’m going to transition back to JPG when CS3 Bridge comes, and see if I can “survive”. I’ll still shoot RAW for my nature photography because for that I do want the utmost image quality, but for photojournalism type work, I don’t need more than what JPG offers. Who knows, maybe I’m addicted to RAW and I’ll be forced to come back and eat crow. But there’s only one way to find out!
And about Lightroom, I think you should definitely do some deep comparisions between it and CS3 / Apeture before diving in, because in my experience it seems to offer less in the way of image processing than Bridge, or at least it is less user-friendly… Of cousre that’s only one user’s opinion, but having used Bridge for almost 2 years and having tested Lightroom ever since it came out in the summer of 2006, I hope my opinion is at least slightly weighty…
Take care, -Matt-
Gorgeous ladies…they look like they are right in their element
wow, i now know who runs your household. cute!
your babies are so cute and a great girly shot too! :littlekiss:
Oh gee wiz…life is really hard sometimes?!
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Adorable picture.. They are so cute!
They are so cute!!!!! ~ Dawn
If life was that easy….sleep. let someone else feed you…sleep…go to the bathroom…bark…sleep some more…eat again…bathroom once more…go to bed for the night…
Hi Randy, I noticed on Scott’s blog that you are interested in RAW capture now. As a full time RAW shooter I must caution you, be careful. There are issues with RAW that pros never talk about, and the biggest one is image corruption. JPG images almost never corrupt, because they are such a small file size and they also don’t have to worry about storing all the extra camera settings. RAW images however may give you some trouble. Do a test first, or at least do NOT go and shoot a big important wedding cold turkey in RAW. Shoot a few thousand un-important images first, and see how things go. If you don’t start having images corrupt on you, then good luck!
Personally, after shooting JPG for 1.5 years and RAW for the next 1.5 years, and after trying Lightroom, Adobe Bridge CS2 and CS3, as well as Apple Apeture, MY OPINION is that I don’t really need RAW capture, I just prefer the RAW processing software layout. Sure, sometimes you blow a shot and RAW can get it back, but that is a very dangerous path to tread and personally I would rather train myself to be a better camera operator.
And with Lighroom, Apple Apeture and Adobe Bridge CS3, we can now edit JPG images as if they were RAWs. Of course you can’t get the same amount of highlight recovery as you could with a RAW image, but the processing engine with it’s other advantages are what I’ve always wanted, not necessarily the RAW power. So for me, I’m going to transition back to JPG when CS3 Bridge comes, and see if I can “survive”. I’ll still shoot RAW for my nature photography because for that I do want the utmost image quality, but for photojournalism type work, I don’t need more than what JPG offers. Who knows, maybe I’m addicted to RAW and I’ll be forced to come back and eat crow. But there’s only one way to find out!
And about Lightroom, I think you should definitely do some deep comparisions between it and CS3 / Apeture before diving in, because in my experience it seems to offer less in the way of image processing than Bridge, or at least it is less user-friendly… Of cousre that’s only one user’s opinion, but having used Bridge for almost 2 years and having tested Lightroom ever since it came out in the summer of 2006, I hope my opinion is at least slightly weighty…
Take care,
-Matt-
Gorgeous ladies…they look like they are right in their element
wow, i now know who runs your household. cute!
your babies are so cute and a great girly shot too! :littlekiss: