Here’s a fun image I made recently, and I thought it would be worth describing the processing process a little.
This is the original image, straight-out-of-camera.
I always shoot in Raw+Jpg, so I usually like to take the Raw image into Adobe Camera Raw for some quick processing (usually less than 5 mins, though this one admittedly took longer). This is what I got after running it through Camera Raw:
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I used to be an unbeliever in the whole shooting-in-Raw concept. Of course, knowing the way images work from a computer graphics background, I understood the theory behind why it should be useful, but I just didn’t see the applicable importance of shooting in RAW format in real life. The problem was that I just hadn’t had the right images to see comparisons with. One day the light clicked on for me (it takes a while for some of us) that the grayish washed-out color I got sometimes when darkening something that was blown out in at least one of the color channels was a result of not having enough color information on the bright end. And when I used a RAW version of the same photo, I was able to make that color look completely natural when darkening it. At that point I was almost completely hooked.
