Comments on: 792 – Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

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1163 – Let It Snow | Photographer’s Blog — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:19:19 +0000

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1149 – Hope There’s Someone | Photographer’s Blog — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:42:04 +0000

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By: omami

omami — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:08:00 +0000

thank you for the technical information… But I do love the winter shot, so lovely!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0000

Actually, I still really like JPG; however, now that I shoot fewer shots per ‘session’, I’ve been experimenting with raw and converting to DNG.

When I shoot JPG, I shoot on the lowest compression, highest quality, which gives me the best JPG that I can get. I’ve never been disappointed and have never been in a situation where I didn’t get the shot, so the raw argument doesn’t necessarily wash for me.

I think it important each person give both a try, see what they like, and shoot with it for a month or two, then make a decision. I’ve seen so much propaganda about raw files that it has almost become a religion, similar to the camera wars of who is better, Nikon or Canon.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:56:00 +0000

Andreas, your lead picture today is precisely why I hate to see young gifted photographers wasting time with black & white. We live at a time when we have been given keys to entirely new portals. No one has ever gone this way before. We have lenses, cameras and processes which allow us to pursue clarity, contrast, sharpness, and of course access to color without constraint. Only our imagination limits the possibilities. Here you show us some of the distance we can go… it is a masterpiece.

By: Bill Birtch

Bill Birtch — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:54:00 +0000

Now that’s real snow. Beautiful. Yup, I’m with you, I shoot everything in RAW.

By: Colin Griffiths

Colin Griffiths — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:19:00 +0000

You made me smile, obviously a metric man but you had a “foot” of snow! Sorry, as I couldn’t help myself

Oh, and I only use RAW.

By: ramin

ramin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:03:00 +0000

I think that the main issue with many in selecting jpeg versus raw is the workflow issue. When you take just a few images per shoot, working with raw is just fine.

But if you take several hundred shots per shoot (or more), old workflows with raw were just too slow. Lightroom was, at least for me, a deal breaker in this sense. Now that working with raw is just as fast as jpeg I won’t go back to jpeg (except when using my old 300D which is just too slow with raw).

And once you shoot black dogs in poor light with raw, you’ll really learn to appreciate it

By: Juha Haataja

Juha Haataja — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:23:00 +0000

Thanks for the clear arguments about using RAW. Although I’m a jpeg-shooter, I have done some experimentation with a RAW workflow recently because of high-contrast snow landscapes.

It takes quite a lot of effort and experimentation to discover how many ways there are to fail…

Do you have some suggestions for references on this for a beginner? Is there a “Photoshop book” tailored for techniques such as this? I’m (for now) interested in getting best out of the files whether generated from RAW or bracketed exposure jpegs.