How do I improve the color of photos?

Exit10 wrote:

digidog wrote:

Exit10 wrote:

digidog wrote:

Exit10 wrote:

However, it requires extra time, it requires more harddisk space.

Actually it can end up using less space which considering the cost of disk space today, versus ending up with a baked image seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

How can shooting RAW use less disk space?

Well a DNG takes up less disk space than a proprietary raw and a rendered JPEG and certainly a layered TIFF can take up more space. In some raw workflows, you NEVER have to render the raw; you print through say LR's print module. You export a rendered low resolution JPEG for the web directly in the product. When I make a web gallery in LR, it renders a JPEG and uploads that data directly; it never needs to be saved on my hard drive.

But seriously, is disk space an issue

Nope its not an issue but if you're wrong about that..........

Work with Virtual Copies? Virtually zero disk space.

Which Canon Rebel shoots virtual copies?

None.

compared to baking a JPEG from a camera and throwing away the actual high bit, potently wide gamut data that you, the image creator can now render as you please? An 8TB USB-C drive is a mere $399 today. What do you consider the worth of just ONE image you capture? Assuming too, you're even a pro.

Nope - I'm not even a pro

Some of us are....

Hmmm

I know, hard to believe when you read posts from enough people on DPR forums. But thankfully, a few pro's reside here. Not enough IMHO. Hence the signal to noise ratio issues here....

Let's see; transparencies and neg film take up space. I'll make a print and then throw them away so I have someplace to store socks. NOT.

After they get scanned - the socks get priority.

So you throw away the film?

Actually not but the chances of ever needing it again are slim

Which is also true after rendering a high resolution, high bit, wide gamut TIFF from the raw, as you desire it to appear. But none the less, I don't know anyone advocating we throw away the raws after that step.

After shooting a job on transparency film and having the ad run in magazines, I still kept my transparencies even if chances of ever needing it again were slim.