My first 350D & RAW Shots! Please critique

I heard that Capture One is really good and so it is however i'm curious as to how your tone,saturation, contrast, and sharpness were set in camera and also what lens did you use??............ .Billy

They are quite good. The problem was embedding the right profile. My C1 settings were on 'embedded camera profile' or something like that, which I assumed would use sRGB. Then I explicitly specified it as sRGB IEC6... whatever throughout my worflow (i.e. system and the other software). Now they are all nice again. FYI, I used the default param 2 (i.e. middle setting on all contrast, sharp...etc). 50mm f1.8 lens. You can see the new processed images at

http://www.pbase.com/abujoud

Rami

William DIllard said:

I heard that Capture One is really good and so it is however i'm
curious as to how your tone,saturation, contrast, and sharpness
were set in camera and also what lens did you use??............
.Billy

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that is the funniest things I have read on this forum yet!!! First of all, pro's shoot raw..are you suggesting that the people making a ton of money of photography are actually bad photographers? haha..

Secondly, the with properly exposed image shot in raw you then have the most digital control (bit depth, detail enhancement, etc.) to adjust the image any way you MIGHT want to. It's not that the image is poor but possibly that you want to to tweak it to do something different. Interestingly enough, when shooting in jpeg you actually compress the information meaning that if you did want to change it AT ALL you lose information fast. Raw is losess and has no compression (which is why it is so big) and contains ALL the infomation of the photo and not just some (like a jpeg does). Example: If you shot in jpeg and are editing that specific photo and after applying a couple different layers to bring out the shadows a tad or to adjust the skin tones the histogram will show you what information is being lost. When you're adjusting the photo and the histogram vertical lines are seperating horizontally that is to represent the GAPS in the data. In a raw photo (particulary when in 16 bit depth) this data lose is decreased which allows for a higher quality product ALWAYS. A photo shot in raw and then converted to jpeg will always be higher quality! In my opinion all these reasons are ALONE a compelling arguement to shot in raw.
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Oh..one more thing..
Here is a photo you will recognize:



the shine on her face? yea..that could be removed very easily with photoshop or another program but! Since you shot in jpeg you will lose information everytime you save..bummer.
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