Your page wouldn't come up. But in general, when shooting RAW you
should expose to preserve your highlights right at the limit. When
processing in the PSCS RAW converter, adjust the highlight level with
exposure slider, then bring your midtones back up to where you want
them with the brightness slider and adjust the black with the shadow
slider. Don't expect a RAW to look good right out of the camera.
Paul
On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:33 AM, David Oswald wrote:
At http://users.adelphia.net/daoswald/ you can see a few shots I
snapped today in Chinatown, Los Angeles. These were shot as RAW and
coerced into jpegs after a little postprocessing. This was the first
time I've taken exclusively RAW images. After initial RAW processing,
I didn't re-touch them as jpegs, other than to size them down to
web-friendly.
Notice the overly-bright sky, and underexposed subjects. I could
adjust the midtones with the Levels tool, but I left them as-is to
demonstrate my point.
The point here is that this seems to be an all too typical result with
DSLR's, at least for me. I can pick and choose; either the subject is
exposed properly (and the sky hopelessly burned out), or the sky is at
least kept within gamut (though still a little bright) resulting in
underexposed midtones.
Aside from underexposing EVERYTHING, and then postprocessing to pull
out shadow detail, is there anything I can do in-camera to improve my
exposures?
Please excuse the boring subjects; I was just snapping away to tinker
with exposure, not really paying attention to finding the one great
shot.
Dave
