City - Farmington State - NEW MEXICO Country - United States
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Along my route as a courier for the hospital laboratory, I see these beautiful flowers. Were it not for someone who just HAPPENED to park right next to them and throw them into shadow, I would have been able to capture them in sunset light--much more beautiful than shown here. I am going to try to retake the photo at a different time when no cars are present!
I just recently started messing around with RAW myself, and I'm sold. One word of warning, however. Hopefully you haven't already installed the Nikon software that came with your camera on your computer; the RAW interface it provides totally sucks. Not only that, it deviously worms its way into your photoshop program files, so that when you download and try to use Adobe's RAW plug in (which is excellent), the Nikon crappy one still comes up. It took a lot of google searching to try and figure out what the problem was, and my computer guru husband to figure out how to get rid of Nikon's interface once and for all.
But I would recommend playing around with RAW. I've really liked it.
I've been enjoying taking lots of spring flower pictures recently too!
No, I just shoot in fine jpeg. I don't know much about photo manipulation yet and haven't bothered to play around with RAW format at all. That is useful information though--I wasn't aware you could tweak with a RAW format photo to such an extent. And yeah, the WB looks off balance to me as well, but of the 8 or so photos I took of this (tweaking wb with every shot), this one turned out the most true-to-color. I'll just have to re-shoot it and see what happens. :) Thanks for your input!
Are you shooting in RAW format on your D70? This would solve the problem. It is virtually like retaking the photograph when you open it with Adobe's RAW plug-in.
My first thought when I saw the photo was, "nice, but the white balance is off." In RAW, you could adjust this without taking the photo again.
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{K:71879} 4/17/2005
