TG-6 cosistenly overexposus

I shoot exclusively in RAW (RX10), which is fine for me. Chris, thanks to her camera tech, will be shooting both. Again, with big chips, backed up with a 5 Tb HDD, there's no compelling reason to worry about running out of space. And, yes, there's a second SD tucked in her camera carrier.

Don't misunderstand me, I like that image, too. My point is, working from RAW a) the results could have been better (so says my internal critic), and b) getting to what you see took more work than it would have with RAW.

I cropped this heavily, and worked hard to clean up dirt on the petal in the lower left. It took a while, and got down to the point where even this RAW exposure was slightly pixelated (400%+). NTL I was able to keep the texture despite some heavy work to get rid of black dirt spots.

Daffodil - Skippack, PA

Finally, I'm kicking myself that I didn't get a better exposure to start with, I grabbed this in a hurry when I should have been in burst mode, with EV bumped up.

I cropped for composition. I'd liked to be able to raise the rider and horse a little higher in the frame, but there were a bunch of cowboy hats across the bottom of the frame ( we were well up in the stands, looking over The Good Seats). There's some bleaching on the horse. Other than trying to fix that, I worked over the dirt, and brought up some detail for the rider and her horse (mainly the wrappings, and IIRC the saddle blanket and saddle). The setting is West World Rodeo Arena in Scottsdale, AZ. We were at the rodeo for the Scottsdale Parada del Sol, an annual big deal. The rider and horse were competing in barrel racing (slalom around three barrels marking a triangle, then run like hell for the finish line). These guys were seriously moving!

Barrel Racers, Parada del Sol Rodeo, Scottsdale, AZ

YIKES! After re-reading the above, I completely missed my point about JPEG v. RAW.

The daffodil was ultimately exported as JPEG, but a RAW exposure to start. The barrel racer was a JPEG exposure, lacking the depth to get the horse's hair right. I might have been able to retouch(!) out the hats at the bottom of the frame, but, working from a JPEG...? Nah.

So, the daffodil exposure, using RAW format, benefited from the depth and capability to get well into the exposure to correct problems. The barrel racer JPEG? Not so much.

There! Got that sorted out. I hope.