Saturday, March 6, 2010

Take 2

The Professor showed me a few tips and tricks in processing my RAW images to get them looking a little better.  He also mentioned some things to help with composition.

So after a quick lesson in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop I tweaked a few of my images which are displayed below, side-by-side with their previous versions as originally posted.  You don't really notice how drastic the difference is until they sit next to each other, but I think you'll agree the updated versions look much nicer.  And just for the record, snow is hard to get right.

As a technical note, I shoot in RAW file format and use Adobe Bridge for initial sorting and Camera Raw processing before opening in Photoshop CS4 for a few final tweaks and output.  I try and do as much processing in the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in to really bring out the colors and detail from the image as it was captured by the camera's sensor.

I've also included a new deer image that kept catching my eye as I was sorting through my photos, so I processed that one in my "digital darkroom" and shared that one as well.  Enjoy!


















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