DPP-Part 3; Exercise 1

Exercise; Raw

 

 The first of the exercises in part three, is about Raw post production possessing, to be able to demonstrate the advantages of using Raw. I have to shoot in Raw and high quality Jpeg and choose three photographs in three different lighting conditions; - Daylight, artificial light and one high dynamic range. I then have to process the Jpeg image and the Raw image and note the differences between the two.

Daylight

1^st Original

This image has had no processing what so ever, I shot this with a WB of daylight.

 

 

2^nd Jpeg edited

For this image I adjusted the levels and curves and also used the auto tone, I’m very happy with this photo as I think it’s turned out well.


 

3^rd Raw edited

With this image, I only used the Raw processing software, I adjusted quite a lot with it, there were a lot more options than in the Jpeg editing options, I particularly like the sharpening option to make the image crisper, however, this sometimes doesn’t work so well depending on the image and you can also over sharpen it.

I was actually quite impressed with the Jpeg image, I have never used the auto tone function before and I think it’s done a really good job. I found it difficult in the Raw format to eradicate the orange hue, so for these sets of images, I actually prefer the Jpeg image, which I was not expecting at all.

 

 

 

Artificial lighting

1^st Original 

 

This image was shot inside with a flash and flash WB on my camera, so to eradicate the orange hue, there has been no editing done to this image.

 

2^nd Jpeg edited

 

This image didn’t need a lot of editing, the levels were fine, I did a bit on the curves and I used auto tone and that was all that was needed.

 

3^rd Raw edited

 

I much prefer the Raw image in this set, I edited it so the contrast was stronger and sharpened it ever so slightly, I think the only difference between these images is the richness in contrast colour.

 

High dynamic range

1^st Original

 

For this shot, I used auto WB and no processing was done.

 

 

2^nd Jpeg editing

 

I quite like this after the processing, I did the levels and curves, but not the auto tone, well, I tried the auto tone but it looked horrendous!.

3^rd Raw editing

 

With doing my usual editing in Raw, recovery etc, I also had to lighten the oranges and yellows to enhance the trees and darken the blues so that it wasn’t so bright. Out of the two images I prefer the Raw, it’s much cleaner and bright, it also shows the true colours a lot more. This would be one of the images that wouldn’t benefit from sharpening, due to the water, it would distort it so much and wouldn’t look right.

I have pretty much always used Raw, so I am really familiar with it, but I do always learn new things with Photoshop as there are so many programs. I normally start in Raw and finish in Photoshop, with the levels and curves, sometimes I do other things, depending on what the image needs.