I've started shooting photos completely in RAW format. RAW format is the unprocessed data that your camera stores, and it allows you to 'super edit' your images over and over again. In this digital age, a RAW image is similar to an old film negative- unprocessed but able to be adjusted and tinkered with in the darkroom- or in this case- Photoshop.
There's a much more complicated description of RAW format- it is by no means a simple thing- but basically, shooting in RAW has allowed me to make minor or major adjustments to a shot in an easy way. (If you have a digital SLR, you may be able to set you camera to shoot in RAW too! Come join the fun!)
Here's the 'as shot' image... exactly as I exposed it through the camera:
Now, we can adjust the temperature of the photo... here's a cool- weather pineapple:
Maybe it grows somewhere here:
brrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
OK- how about a warmer look- the temperature is adjusted to bring out the reds and yellows:
This pineapple looks pretty happy in this warmer setting... like it could belong with these guys:
Here in Curacao...
With these people...
What happened to those people? That tanned, smiling on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, happy couple?
Oh yeah...
Right... they got off the boat...
...and one started blogging about random things and the other vowed to never take a nice, smiling picture with his wife ever again...
...But he would still wear a Hawaiian print shirt with those shorts... out in public... without any second thought... despite any protests from me... or anyone else for that matter...
And that's why we call him Austin the Incredible!
-CtF
Ooh, interesting. I get the same cooling and warming colorations when messing around with white balance adjustments. Didn't know you could do that with Photoshop. Sounds like there's so much you can do.....
ReplyDeleteyep- its all kind of the same thing!
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