Why Postprocess?

[Black Pearl]

A nice little article about processing files to get the best from them:

 

http://masteryournikon.com/2014/05/29/why-postprocess-raw-images/

[FUJI]

BRILLIANT! BRILLIANT! BRILLIANT!

So very, very true.....thank you for posting this BP.

Post processing RAW images, using brushes selectively on layers is the proven way to get the very best of what both, you and your camera have jointly produced.......instead of relying on what the in-camera processor produces..... you use your own creative mind to adjust the tones, saturation, contrast, Colour and sharpness until you have a pleasing whole.

Once learned, post processing isn't difficult, or a......Dark Art.......it follows in the greatest traditions of the best of film photographers who were masters of the Dark Room.

If you are new to photography or processing, consider getting, one-to-one tuition on your chosen software, then a whole new world will be opened up to you.

FUJI

[FUJI]

A very interesting follow up video....

FUJI

[Leon]

all that milky water!!!!

[Craftysnapper]

Yea I have always looked at it that way since my film days, or as Ansel Adams said  "the negative is comparable to the composers score and the print to it's performance. or in the digital world the raw is the score and the final output it's performance.

 

Settling for the in camera jpeg processing decided by some Japanese technician seems to me a little like settling for the prints you used to get from Boots with film because you did not have a darkroom, but everyone now has access to software so it's a level playing field.

Edited December 28, 2014 by OlyPaul

[ChrisLumix]

Ignore me. I've only post-processed JPEGs for 15 years.

[FUJI]

Ignore me. I've only post-processed JPEGs for 15 years.

We will Chris. ;-). ;-)

FUJI