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RAW Processing - Lightroom 5 and T4i

Started Jun 16, 2015 | Discussions thread
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Crotonmark Contributing Member • Posts: 933
RAW Processing - Lightroom 5 and T4i

Hi all

I have posted here before and have always appreciated everyone's' help.  This is a basic question but it is really puzzling me

I shoot RAW basically because I am told that it gives me the most processing options.  Fine and dandy.

My workflow is this:

Images from Card - imported into a folder in LR5 - I look at what I have and either do nothing or I tweak the images in the development module

This weekend I shot on the beach at Cape Cod.  The images OOC and in LR look flat - flatter than normal.

Here is my question - what does it mean to process a RAW image?  Some articles I read say that you won't be able to see them without special software? Is this done when I transfer them from the Camera to LR? Am i missing some steps?

Also - any idea why images from the beach (where I have shot before) would look like they were shot behind cheesecloth?

TIA

Mark

Canon EOS Rebel T4i (EOS 650D / EOS Kiss X6i)
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