Shooting in RAW.

[Scott™]

OMG I just shot and edited in RAW today for the first time ever. And I am NEVER going back to jpeg. I am able to bring so much more out of my pictures its unreal. I feel like I've just invented the wheel.

That is all. I'm excited.

 

[Danny133]

hahaha much better isnt it

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

I ate a big red candle!



Congrats dude haha

 

[Scott™]

It's like I've just had sex for the first time lol.

 

[Danny133]

oh dear

 

[Scott™]

oh dear

In the sense I was a RAW virgin

 

[Will.]

Pics?

 

[Scott™]

I'm trying Will mate but struggling.

How do I get my picture in RAW format from photoshop that reads the file to flickr?

 

[Will.]

DO NOT ask me LOL

Happy Birthday btw

 

[jenic]

file>save then change the format to jpg or png or whatever you want

 

[Scott™]

Cheers Mike.

 

[jenic]

No problem thomas

 

[Scott™]

DO NOT ask me LOL

Happy Birthday btw

lol cheers man. Heres my first ever effort so please go easy. Some alterations may be abit OTT but I'm getting used to it.

Jpeg

RAW

 

[jenic]

Looks good :approve:

 

[Scott™]

Cheers man

 

[rio172]

Weldone dude and welcome to the world of raw files hahahaha.....

 

[Tigger]

Pretty dam good that mate - give her one for me haha

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

lol I know the feeling! RAW > all!

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Buy a large external HDD. Two infact if you want to double-back them up .. and a pro flickr account

 

[Tigger]

^ +1 on that

 

[Scott™]

Buy a large external HDD. Two infact if you want to double-back them up .. and a pro flickr account

Why is this?

 

[Andy.]

I have all my photos on a separate disk to the operating system on my PC, and copy them weekly to an external drive which I keep at my parents in laws place. I have 10,000's of photos that I would be gutted to loose, ever.

It depends on how you feel about loosing your photos. A while back I made a schoolboy error and was cleaning the back up drive completely and the "live" drive started misbehaving which meant that I could not access the photos. I felt physically sick at the prospect of loosing it all! Luckily it was just a glitch and I got it all back, but I will never risk only having one copy again!

Backups are always overrated until you actually need to use one. Disks are so cheap these days there is really no excuse for not doing it.

 

[Scott™]

I have all my photos on a separate disk to the operating system on my PC, and copy them weekly to an external drive which I keep at my parents in laws place. I have 10,000's of photos that I would be gutted to loose, ever.

It depends on how you feel about loosing your photos. A while back I made a schoolboy error and was cleaning the back up drive completely and the "live" drive started misbehaving which meant that I could not access the photos. I felt physically sick at the prospect of loosing it all! Luckily it was just a glitch and I got it all back, but I will never risk only having one copy again!

Backups are always overrated until you actually need to use one. Disks are so cheap these days there is really no excuse for not doing it.

I never really thought of it like that. I will be sure to get a external HD then.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Also, RAW files are MASSIVE, and soon add up to a lot of space.

 

[Andy.]

^^ Yep! 25-30MB a pop for mine at the minute. I dont need to use all the pixels so I should probably use sRaw instead but TB's are cheap.