So last week Katie & I went outside to take some pictures of the girls. It was a nice sunny day, and I had the flash one the camera to provide some fill light. We started out with Elise in the sun, until a helpful neighbor (who happened to be a professional photographer) suggested we put her in the shade. This turned out to be very good advice. Below is one of the pictures of Elise.
That's the original image as captured by the camera without any processing. Nice, but a little flat and washed out. Below is the same picture with the default processing by the camera. Better, but still leavs a little to be desired.
I shot the photos in RAW mode, which means the file is a .NEF instead of a .JPG. It's sort of like shooting on film and having access to the the negative - it has more detail than a print.I opened the RAW file in Adobe Camera Raw, part of Photoshop. This gave me all kinds of tools for correcting exposure & white balance, boosting saturation, and adjusting individual colors. This let me do things like fix the blue ribbons on her dress that had previously been washed out. Anyway, below is the finished picture. Isn't she cute?
And here's a split of all three pictures:
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Doogie that is GREAT!! I wouldn't post to many of these though, you'll end up with customers lined up!
But you see I posted this because a lot of people have access to a Digital SLR and Photoshop, so they could do it themselves. (although I really don't mind customers)
Cool! Great info!
I wonder if GIMP can do the same thing?
I've heard a lot of good things about GIMP, but I've actually never used it. I found this plugin for it that is supposed to let you open and edit RAW files, so you could give that a try.
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