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Newbismatic Valued Member United States 380 Posts	Posted 08/09/2011 2:26 pm I guess my purpose of asking this is to prove that you really don't need that much post processing IF you take a solid photo to start with. Now being on my budget, I don't really have an MS example coin to share, but I will share what I have done here. This first photo is straight out of the camera (SOOC) after a square crop of course. I decided that I probably needed a little longer time with the shutter open, and I would bump the exposure through lightroom (I shoot RAW, which helps in PP). And thats it! I think I may have bumped the contrast ever so slightly, but didn't change anything else. If I was able to make those decisions at the time of taking the photo, I probably could have avoided any post processing. I would be interested in hearing/ seeing other's processes and what they think while uploading, shooting and processing... Shot with a Nikon D80, 60mm Nikkor Micro, Ring light set up with diffused LEDs on a black background. Report this Post to the Staff

rmpsrpms Pillar of the Community United States 4038 Posts	Posted 08/09/2011 3:16 pm Are your RAW settings truly RAW? Unless you specifically dialed it in that way, your RAW output will likely have a "setting" that has some post-processing built in. In both my Nikons I had to save a special setting that I named, of all things, "RAW" that eliminated the built-in sharpening and saturation of the various canned settings. All of the settings that are available standard in the Nikon settings menu have some post-processing. I assume Canon has the same issue. Ray Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com Report this Post to the Staff
Newbismatic Valued Member United States 380 Posts	Posted 08/09/2011 3:30 pm It's true... In the camera settings there are some adjustments that you can make... I'm not sure if I'd call it post processing. RAW would be my file format instead of shooting jpg, so the camera is doing less, but I still have it shooting specific white balance and some noise reduction. For the purpose of this posting I'm thinking of "post processing" as being anything you do to the image after the shutter clicks. To TRULY get RAW you need film and full manual control. You're right in questioning what RAW means, I mean the uncompressed lossless file format. Report this Post to the Staff
rmpsrpms Pillar of the Community United States 4038 Posts	Posted 08/09/2011 9:55 pm Cameras post-process RAW in the same way they do .jpg. On my Nikon there are settings called "picture control" with names like vivid, neutral, landscape, portrait, standard, etc. There are also custom settings you can create. All of the settings, even neutral, include sharpening. I had to make a custom setting to eliminate all sharpening and saturation post-processing, and this is before the image leaves the camera. When I download the image to ViewNX or ViewNX2 (or CaptureNX I suppose, but don't use it) it has a pulldown menu showing which picture control the image was taken with. If I choose anything other than my custom "RAW" control, the starting point of the image is the setting that the picture control defines, so there is already some post-processing applied. So you may think you are shooting RAW, and that it is actually un-processed, but you should verify it. No need for film or manual control, it's just settings in the camera or viewing software. Ray Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com Edited by rmpsrpms 08/10/2011 10:47 am Report this Post to the Staff
aladinslamp Pillar of the Community United States 3076 Posts	Posted 08/11/2011 04:05 am Ray your so good! Love all of the noncelont(spelling) and detailed info you help us all with...those last few posts with lenses who can afford and SD internal knowledge of how things work, may go over the top of many but yet here it is.. another good thread about settings... Report this Post to the Staff
Sidekick-CA Pillar of the Community United States 509 Posts	Posted 08/14/2011 6:07 pm Before After Lightroom Report this Post to the Staff
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