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72chevelle454 wrote:
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SEe that Conrad! Socrate thinks you should shoot RAW just like me

Hehe... I know I know.... Did you get CS4 yet so you can help me with RAW?!?

Hehe... Since I tend to only shoot JPG, and since she keeps insisting I shoot RAW, I asked her to help me out when it comes time to process. But she has CS2 which doesn't allow her to open the Canon 50D RAW files I send her. I'm relatively new to all of this so I don't really know how to help her other than recommend she get CS4 which works just fine for me. Its just whenever I try to process a RAW file, it makes my birds, especially white ones, look like plastic!

Maybe I need more practice fiddling around with RAW files.

Use DPP it works pretty good, and its comes free on the disc.

And SHOOT RAW, way more data and much smoother transitional vignettes/gradations when you convert to tiff from raw. (period)

I'll try it. I never bothered installing that program!

Thanks!

Jun 09, 2009 at 11:56 PM

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p.3 #2 · Winged Water Variety (9)

noelle wrote:
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SEe that Conrad! Socrate thinks you should shoot RAW just like me

Hehe... I know I know.... Did you get CS4 yet so you can help me with RAW?!?

No, send me the money and I will

I can't!!! I'm saving up for the 800mm! Hehe....

Jun 09, 2009 at 11:56 PM

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p.3 #3 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Conrad Tan wrote:
noelle wrote:
Conrad Tan wrote:
noelle wrote:
SEe that Conrad! Socrate thinks you should shoot RAW just like me

Hehe... I know I know.... Did you get CS4 yet so you can help me with RAW?!?

No, send me the money and I will

I can't!!! I'm saving up for the 800mm! Hehe....

yeah sure.....

Jun 09, 2009 at 11:57 PM

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p.3 #4 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Super sweet IF's Conrad

Enjoyed the whole series very much!

+1 for switching to RAW

Tom

Jun 10, 2009 at 12:14 AM

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p.3 #5 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Beautiful bif's, nice work! thumb:

Jun 10, 2009 at 12:59 AM

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Thomas Sanders wrote:
Super sweet IF's Conrad

Enjoyed the whole series very much!

+1 for switching to RAW

Tom

Thank you Tom!

Jun 10, 2009 at 01:11 AM

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p.3 #7 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Nice job on these Conrad, that osprey is sweet.

Jun 10, 2009 at 01:17 AM

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p.3 #8 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Dick on Aruba wrote:
Beautiful bif's, nice work! thumb:

Thank you very much Dick.

Jun 10, 2009 at 01:31 AM

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p.3 #9 · Winged Water Variety (9)

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These are beautiful captures, Conrad, and you did a great job capturing these IF shots. The Osprey against that sky is very pleasing. What Dan is talking about, and I can see on my monitor, is called Posterization and it appears as steps in what should be a smooth transition. Clouds and Skies are often subject to this "banding" It also shows in the last image. You should start shooting RAW Conrad.

. I also like 4, 8 and 9. Congrats on a super set!
Socrate

I tried shooting some in RAW just now and it is still exhibiting posterization Socrate. Maybe its something in my camera settings.

I'll keep experimenting and see if it goes away.

Okay, Conrad I clearly don't know your workflow but here are a few tips to avoid posterization:

- shoot RAW. Glad to here you already decided to do so

, then you need to convert the files to a high bit format: TIFF, 16-bitJPEG.
- work on 16 bits (or 24 bits) images because they provide a lot more color levels. A lot more!

- save your files in a lossless format to avoid posterization due to excessive editing
- use adjustment layers during your editing
- go easy on the Curves adjustment

If after this you still get banding or posterization, one way to get rid of that is to use Gaussian Blur to smooth it out

Socrate

Jun 10, 2009 at 02:54 PM

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p.3 #10 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Great series Conrad!

Very good job on these IF shots. I especially like 1, 4, 3 and 8.
I could see you blurring that BG in 4 a little more to maybe make that one even better

The Osprey shot in 1 is killer!

JayT

Jun 10, 2009 at 03:28 PM

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p.3 #11 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Conrad

Super collection here. I favor the first and last because of the great backgrounds!!

Mike

Jun 10, 2009 at 03:31 PM

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p.3 #12 · Winged Water Variety (9)

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Nice job on these Conrad, that osprey is sweet.

Thank you Reko! He was a lucky find for me.

Jun 10, 2009 at 04:04 PM

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Conrad

Super collection here. I favor the first and last because of the great backgrounds!!

Mike

Many thanks Mike!

Jun 10, 2009 at 04:05 PM

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p.3 #14 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Sirfishalot wrote:
Great series Conrad!

Very good job on these IF shots. I especially like 1, 4, 3 and 8.
I could see you blurring that BG in 4 a little more to maybe make that one even better

The Osprey shot in 1 is killer!

JayT

Thanks Jay! Ya I might have gotten a bit over enthusiastic with #4.

Jun 10, 2009 at 04:23 PM

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p.3 #15 · Winged Water Variety (9)

Shasoc wrote:
Conrad Tan wrote:
Shasoc wrote:
These are beautiful captures, Conrad, and you did a great job capturing these IF shots. The Osprey against that sky is very pleasing. What Dan is talking about, and I can see on my monitor, is called Posterization and it appears as steps in what should be a smooth transition. Clouds and Skies are often subject to this "banding" It also shows in the last image. You should start shooting RAW Conrad.

. I also like 4, 8 and 9. Congrats on a super set!
Socrate

I tried shooting some in RAW just now and it is still exhibiting posterization Socrate. Maybe its something in my camera settings.

, then you need to convert the files to a high bit format: TIFF, 16-bitJPEG.
- work on 16 bits (or 24 bits) images because they provide a lot more color levels. A lot more!

Socrate

I'm noting these steps carefully and will try them out very soon Socrate! Thank you for your guidance! It is very much apprecated.

Jun 10, 2009 at 04:24 PM

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Corad, these are beautiful. The Osprey and White Pelican are just killer shots and the Brown Pelican is my third favorite. You did a great job on all of these, however. As BIF go, these are very, very nice shots indeed.

Dave

Jun 10, 2009 at 09:30 PM

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p.3 #17 · Winged Water Variety (9)

David Israel wrote:
Corad, these are beautiful. The Osprey and White Pelican are just killer shots and the Brown Pelican is my third favorite. You did a great job on all of these, however. As BIF go, these are very, very nice shots indeed.

Dave

Thank you Dave!

Jun 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM

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